This is the officially licensed story of how I got the nickname of D.A.TATER. Reuse of this story by any other source is strictly prohibited without the express written consent of the author of this story. Brian Bartlett.

In my freshman year I lived in a dorm room with two guys, Danny M. and Justin W. Justin had a habit of giving people nicknames. Justin one night says to me, "You need a nickname." Justin picks up a dictionary and starts flipping through it. He stops at a page and points and reads the name he is pointing at. After doing this many times he stops at a page in the "T" section. He reads down and selects the word Tater.

Justin mentions this to a couple of friends of mine, Jason S. and Tegan B. They begin to use the nickname almost exclusively. The following semester I am introduced to a room full of people as Tater. the entire room then begins calling me Tater. Only Danny, Jason, and Tegan know my real name. As the semester continues my real name is revealed to these new people and they finally figure out that Tater and Brian Bartlett are the same person.

A few of those people started to refer to me as The Tater. I turned it from The Tater to Da Tater, during the remainder of that semester and during the following year. During the summer of 1997, I changed the nickname from Da Tater to D.A.Tater. I also have changed the D.A. to mean David Anthony.

This is the official real history of the nickname D.A. Tater. Other stories do exist but they have all been proven false. All names in this story are real. No names have been changed to protect the guilty or innocent. This story is copyrighted by Brian "D.A. Tater" Bartlett. Any reuse of this story is strictly prohibited without express written consent of Me.