So, are you a Dapper Dan man?
I actually picked up that nickname back in high school during one of those cheesy get-to-know-everybody exercises where you had to come up with an adjective that somehow matched yourself. I think I intended to use "Daring", but then somebody else got it before me. Somebody near me suggested "Dapper" and I went with it. I kinda forgot about the nickname until web chat boards like this one came into use, so I started going by DapperDan on some of them.
Little did I know, at the time, about
a Pittsburgh charity,
a Western action film star, or, heaven forbid,
a dress-up doll. Then, the fantastic and amazing
O Brother came out and I clearly had an avatar I could use online (and conveniently borrow, at high resolution, from the movie's now-defunct web site).
I've never actually put goo into my hair, although I do occasionally
dress up enough to be worthy of the name...