The name C-Brat was first used by Greg Davidson (Red Fox) on the old C-Dog forum to explain why he was unable to conform to a very stringent set of rules set down by the self-titled "Grand Poobah". After another of several public condemnations of Red Fox using the site to post pictures - beautiful images of Alaska glaciers in this instance - I set up another site (simple, free and easy on MSN Groups at the time) for him to post all the pictures he wanted. I jokingly called it C-Brats and put the "No Rules - Just Be Nice" declaration on the front page.
The Grand Poobah took exception for whatever reason and banned Red Fox, me, and a couple others who had signed onto the joke site from the C-Dog site for life. We pretty much said, "Hmmph. Old Poob is really mad. Oh well."
And the rest is history...