# C3, your name... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 21, 2000, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c3-your-name/34056 "2000-09-21T21:39:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c3-your-name/34056/1 "2000-09-21T21:39:27Z")
No, I’m not going to harangue you about that other poster whose former name was abbreviated “C3” or “C#3”. I was wondering about something else: I was scrolling through a thread, just drifting mentally and not really reading anything, when your name suddenly leapt out at me just because I couldn’t figure out what it was. I thought it looked like a little fish. I wondered when a poster named “Fishy” joined the board, but then I snapped out of “right brain” mode and realized it was you, C3. Is your name supposed to look like a fish? Or a little sideways Ziggy-type man? Or is it just a C and a 3? Oo.C3 ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c3-your-name/34056/2 "2000-09-21T21:57:47Z")
Gr8Kat, I thought the same exact thing. It looks like a fish! And everytime I see the name, I get that Goldfish Cracker song stuck in my head. 🙂 C3 ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c3-your-name/34056/3 "2000-09-21T22:38:32Z")
[hijack] I have a friend on AIM who ends every convo like this: \>\<\> Not that this is of any use . . . just padding my post count like a good little boy:) [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c3-your-name/34056/4 "2000-09-21T23:14:57Z")
I think it was Wally who once said it looked like somebody bending over. Touching their toes, perhaps. ---
**Author:** ![RTA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@RTA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTA)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c3-your-name/34056/5 "2000-09-22T01:00:44Z")
In the _original_ C3’s case, it WAS somebody bending over … and cramming his head up his ass. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c3-your-name/34056/6 "2000-09-22T01:02:47Z")
Or KOOKS, for short. Her initials are IRL CCC, hence “C3.” She hasn’t been around much lately, so I’m answering for her. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c3-your-name/34056/7 "2000-09-22T03:58:01Z")
RTA: > [@](#): > > In the original C3’s case, it WAS somebody bending over … and cramming his head up his ass. LOL! Very true 🙂 Mjollnir: > [@](#): > > I am a member of the “Keepers of Odd Knowledge Society.” > > Or KOOKS, for short. > > Her initials are IRL CCC, hence “C3.” She hasn’t been around much lately, so I’m answering for her. Thanks. I know, if I’d searched through all the “What does your username mean?” threads, I’d probably have found that, but I wanted to start a mundane, pointless, fishy thread. Oo.C3 ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c3-your-name/34056/8 "2000-09-24T09:53:30Z")
She posted [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=39288) recently so she is around.