User:Boobytrapped

My online nick, here, and at many other sites is Boobytrapped. The nick dates back to circa 1997 when I first started to use it on DALnet IRC Channels as a teenager in Pakistan. The concept behind it a bit ancient to that. The concept originates from the boobytrapped cell that Guybrush Threepwood is locked inside by the Cannibals in The Secret of Monkey Island, which I used to play as a kid. As Yann Martel notes in his book Life of Pi, its the kind of word, similar to bamboozled, that a person from the subcontinent would find really funny. I did find it funny.

At that stage I was not aware of the double meaning that a nick like boobytrapped could possibly be construed as. Once I realized though, I tended not to use the nick as much, afraid that I might sound too much like a party-dude. However, I have grown past that now, and I actually enjoy this nick.