Explain Your User Name

[Badgemash]

I wanted a different(cooler) word for pirate and found Pyrate; it is an older spelling used during the 1700s and I believe mostly used by the french. 81 is my birth year.

As a geologist, I find I constantly read your name a Pyrite instead (aka fools gold), but not surprising since if I don't have snakes or horses on the brain I'm thinking about rocks.

Mine is just a warped version of the DH's (and my) last name. I was too lazy to think of my own since all of my brain space is occupied by rocks and critters, so I just stole his.