Why Wally III (Pronounced Wally the Third)?

Uffish Thought asked if I could post about why my Nym is Wally III. I hope this is satisfactory.

This all starts a very long time ago. My older brother and I would tell stories instead of going to bed. We went on all sorts of adventures just the two of us. We needed names for our characters so he was George and I was Wally. They are great solid names, plus they go good together. We played with Legos and Matchbox cars; the stories changed and evolved, but the names seem to stick. For a while I started drawing a comic that featured a boy who could turn in to a toaster. His arch-nemesis was a half-goat half-man who constantly fought against justice. Go figure toaster-man was Wally, and ironically goat-man was Billy. My good friend an I also started a correspondence, when e-mail was brand new, pretending we were two allied generals trying to keep the Huns back in medieval Europe; The name Wally came back again. Then I started Latin class; I was absolutely entranced with roman numerals, they could make any number look wonderfully sophisticated. When I tried to apply that to my wonderful Wally…Well let me show you try this ‘Wally I’. Uh…no it looks like just an I, plus how are you the first of anything unless there is a second or third? Now this ‘Wally II’; is it a box? Or was it written on a typewriter and the crosspiece of the H got left out? Shouldn’t it be Wally Jr.? But that doesn’t look good either. Finally the wonderful masterpiece of many hours of nerdy thought about a name that isn’t even mine ‘Wally III’. Three is such a symbolic number, the Godhead, Three wheels on a tricycle, the tri-force, third times the charm, a third (as in Ender), three credits in most classes, the triple combination, triple decker anything, and the Tri-Wizard Tournament…need I go on. Everything good comes in threes, so it just makes sense that Wally would come in the third variety. Thus anytime I need to create an identity I have one already prefabricated. Plus I have grown quite fond of the name.

Why do I feel elated, like I have just written my first Board response…only not?