well, sence sombody else admited theirs was from gaming, i wont feel like such an idiot(ty terr )
anyway...a few years ago i was starting to play Half-Life and got into TFC(online multiplayer class based teamplay mod for HL...mostly capture the flag type stuff.). i used to go by PoisonFr@G, for poison frag. i liked it cause you could infect people to kill them. everyone thought it said "poison frog"...i didnt like that and decided to go with something else. one of the spray-paints they had in the game was an eight ball so i wanted to go with that...the problem was that there were like a million "EightBall"s around, so i wanted to be different. i changed the Eight to the number 8, the a to an "@" and added the "*" just for good measure, hence 8*[email protected] have never seen anyone in any game with that exact spelling of the name.