Holy crap, I’d never noticed that I’d had that wrong before. Ditto WOOKINPANUB, except for me it’s “wok in a pub,” for no discernible reason.
Then there’s Punoqllads. I’m not sure that’s even pronounceable anyway, but ever since she explained that it’s “spellbound” upside down, I’ve just thought of it that way.
Yeah, “ivylagss” doesn’t make much sense at all. 
I like Bob the Optimist. Gives me a mental picture of that smiling guy from the Enzyte commercial.
No offense indeed! Hmmmmph. :dubious: 
Would it be less squicky if I explained it’s “lookin’ for love” as pronounced by Buckwheat from the Our Gang movies? What’s that? You find it even *squickier * now?
As for norinew, I always thought it was a play on “no renew” like you were trying to tell us you would *not * be renewing your subscription here.
And when I see Mbossa , I think of “Mombassa”, only I say it to myself the way Grace did when she was mocking Will on W & G. “Ah yesssssss,Mmmmmombassa”
I just saw Cunctator’s name in another thread, and looking at it, it finally dawned on me: It says Cunctator. Not Cuncanator! (Sounds like: CUNK-in-nate-or)
For some reason, it just always sounded like some kind of superhero name, or supervillian, or maybe even a Transformer of some sort. But it’s not. It’s Cunctator. I have no more idea what that means than what Cuncanator means, but I am a little saddened. It doesn’t sound nearly as Transformer-y to me, now. 
On preview: I Googled. I see a Roman Commander whose name means “delayer”. He does not appear to turn into a car or giant robot.
I just think “cunt” whenever I see his/her screen name. “Cuntinator?” I think to myself. “Cuntcanker? No. Eww. Couldn’t be.”
Wow, I just noticed this post, and that’s how I always parsed it, as well. Why Be A Wife (wyfe?). However, I never noticed the -fy before. I don’t feel quite so clever, now! :smack:
MGibson obviously is Mel despite the fact that there have never been any drunken anti-Semitic rants posted.
Frostillicus reads as Frosticulus. I guess that would be what a man gets when he skinny dips in a frozen lake.
WOOKINPANUB always seems right but I keep hearing Eddie Murphy’s voice singing it.
Batsinma Belfry I see as Batsina, not Batsinma. Minor difference I guess.
Until THIS very thread, so did I.
I’ll just go off and sulk in a corner now…
WOOKINPANUB, oddly enough I got from the first time I read it, and I didn’t even like the Our Gang kids.
I always thought CUNCTATOR was a play on DICTATOR.
A lot of screen names for me are just like hard to pronounce alien names in sci-fi novels. Bene Tleilax or Tleilaxu in the Dune novels for instance. My eyes encounter the word, my brain quickly decides it’s too much work to sound it out and from then on I “hear” it in my head as something more pronounceable. Like “tilAXoo.”
For me it’s picunurse. Until she posted about a nursing topic, I thought of it as “pick you nurse”, when what it stands for is “PICU nurse” – a nurse in a pediatric intensive care unit.
Wow, until this very minute I thought it was “Bob the Optometrist.” I was way off.
:eek:
Good one.
Oops… :smack:
I always read it as pick you nurse as well, even though I knew what it meant. And I am pretty sure that “she” is a “he” although I might be wrong with that one, too.
I suck at acting. My SDMB name is my first initial and last name.
She’s a she, and she’s a sweetheart. We’ve discussed her name at Seattle Trivia, and many of us parsed it as “peek-oo-nurse” - kind of like pikachu. Heh. She’s cute enough to pull it off. 
It isn’t -fy, it’s -yf. Take another look. And I’m pretty sure “why be a wife” is precisely the intended meaning.
I always assumed that Anastaseon, Aesiron, and Asterion were fans of some sort of franchise (Buffy? Naruto? Star Trek?) that I just wasn’t aware of, and were intentionally patterning their names after some sort of naming convention of that series. Turns out it’s just a coincidence.