Well, I suppose it started when I was working at Kennywood, in the Penny Arcade. Everyone kept going on about kung-fu movies and the silly poses and since I'm tall and skinny they said that I could pull off some of them. Being rather silly, I did the Mantis pose so the guys started calling me Mantis. After that, I started working at Game Stop (Then Babbages) and added Playing to the beginning of my nickname. So, I became The Playing Mantis. I've been using the trimmed down version PMantis along with the ultimate answer to the question of Life the universe and everything as my forum handle for quite some time. Seems a little silly, but since I love gaming and being silly it works just fine.