My name is Matthew and I go by Matthew, not Matt. When I met my DW she made fun of me and would really stretch out the "theww..." at the end of Matt, then her family started calling me "theww". Most usernames require 8 characters, so I added 228 for Feb. 28, the day I met my DW on a blind date.
OT, when my DW was a little girl she would get upset with her father and would want to call him a bad name like, "Big Dummy", but she knew that she would get into trouble if she would have vocalized it, so she would say, "You Big, you big, you big" and leave off the Dummy part. Her father didn't know why she was calling him a "Big, big" so he started calling her "Large". Well, the name has stuck and we all call my DW "Large". The funny thing is that she is tall and very thin and when people hear me call her "Large" they think that I am calling her fat. I have had several people stop me at different times and read me the riot act for talking about her weight that way and tell me how disrespectful I am. One lady asked me if I wanted her to be anorexic. It is too difficult to tell them the whole story, so I just let them walk away shaking their head at me.
Oh, and my avatar is "Puss in Boots" because:
1) I never liked cats until my DW made us get one, now my Cat is my buddy and I love her very much
2) I like the Shrek movies
3) It is kind of funny that this is a Disney Forum and Shrek made fun of Disney and the whole Jefferey Katzenberg thing