Well, it came to be my nickname a long time ago in a school not so far away... It was a dark and rainy night...SIKE. Really, when I was in High School I was big into Dungeons and Dragons, fantasy books and that sort of thing. My favorite author is still J.R.R. Tolkien. Anyway... I figured out how to spell my name, "Bart", in some kind of elf runes (or something like that, I forget now) and I put it on all my school papers (you do some weird things in H.S.). Well my best friend decided that it looked a lot like the logo for the 80's metal band "RATT" (one of my favorites by the way) with a couple of little lines missing. We always sat near each other in class and graded each others assignments, so whenever he got one of my papers, he changed the runes into the band's logo. It stuck! That was over ten years ago, but still to this day, to my bestest buds, I'm still Ratt. So there you have it. HAPPY NOW???