# Cool usernames not taken. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 23, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-usernames-not-taken/423643 "2007-10-23T00:47:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-usernames-not-taken/423643/21 "2007-10-23T21:25:51Z")
**Philatelic Babirusa** (my winning entry in a Googlewhack competition on another board) From the world of primates: **Douroucouli** **Uakari** **Slow Loris** **Aye-Aye Captain** And the one I’ve suggested once and will continue to recommend in any thread started by a solicitor of a username: **Goa Ska Lice** , a respacing of the letters in the phrase _Go Ask Alice_ ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-usernames-not-taken/423643/22 "2007-10-23T22:20:18Z")
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi] … **FDNY Commissioner Scoppetta** Location:NY… I have no idea who FDNY Commissioner Scoppett is or why he made the list. [/QUOTE] Maybe it’s a reference to Virginia State Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta in all those Cornwell novels. How 'bout: Fletcher Bowman Luke Uppindaskye Condo Leaser Ice Princess Ownname Moe Mailliard (Mow My Yard) Pam B. Namby Baron Unashamed Aladdin Sweatpants Sue Ann Wynn Claude Baddely Roxanne Sand Tucker Inlate Wagner Tailfeather ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-usernames-not-taken/423643/23 "2007-10-23T22:31:22Z")
**Comma Eight Comma One** **Killer Snowman** **Liquid Nitrogen** **Tanooki Suit** **Powdered Toast Man** ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-usernames-not-taken/423643/24 "2007-10-23T22:33:30Z")
Half Vast ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-usernames-not-taken/423643/25 "2007-10-23T22:43:28Z")
Except for a couple of very obvious ones, and a few explained, most are not making much sense to me. Explanations for why you think your proposals are cool or clever or original would be welcome. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-usernames-not-taken/423643/26 "2007-10-23T22:51:52Z")
OK, **Comma Eight Comma One** - come command code from the Commodore 64 **Killer Snowman** - Mostly a reference to Calvin & Hobbes **Liquid Nitrogen** - duh **Tanooki Suit** - Coolest Mario [power-up](http://ps3.advancedmn.com/images/content/misc/m-tanooki_mario-jpg.jpg) ever **Powdered Toast Man** - a [character](http://tn3-1.deviantart.com/300W/fs7.deviantart.com/i/2005/235/9/9/Powder_toast_man_by_ArtistoftheWar.png) from Ren & Stimpy ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-usernames-not-taken/423643/27 "2007-10-23T23:08:56Z")
**Man of the Peephole** ---
**Author:** ![Fetchund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Fetchund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fetchund)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-usernames-not-taken/423643/28 "2007-10-24T00:08:20Z")
Botanists/ Horticulturalists might use one of my two favorite plant names: **Bastard Toadflax Hoary Puccoon** ---
**Author:** ![GawnFishin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@GawnFishin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GawnFishin)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-usernames-not-taken/423643/29 "2007-10-24T12:25:44Z")
**Sheriff Ishot C Ash** ---
**Author:** ![Engineer\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc29f/32.png) [@Engineer\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engineer_Dude)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-usernames-not-taken/423643/30 "2007-10-24T13:19:01Z")
Flancrest Enterprises ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-usernames-not-taken/423643/31 "2007-10-24T14:19:21Z")
Why not change yours to **Cool Username Not Taken**? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-usernames-not-taken/423643/32 "2007-10-24T14:28:11Z")
Birefringence ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-usernames-not-taken/423643/33 "2007-10-24T14:31:39Z")
[QUOTE=Sapo] Except for a couple of very obvious ones, and a few explained, most are not making much sense to me. Explanations for why you think your proposals are cool or clever or original would be welcome. [/QUOTE] Don’t know if you meant me, but I chose **A Jerk** because of the rule “Don’t be a jerk.” Seemed humorous at the time, but I concede that my humor meter is not the standard. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-usernames-not-taken/423643/34 "2007-10-24T16:15:25Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] Why not change yours to **Cool Username Not Taken**? 🙂 [/QUOTE] Because then it would be taken. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-usernames-not-taken/423643/35 "2007-10-24T16:16:34Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Don’t know if you meant me, but I chose **A Jerk** because of the rule “Don’t be a jerk.” Seemed humorous at the time, but I concede that my humor meter is not the standard. [/QUOTE] Yeah, that was fairly self explanatory. I wonder if they would allow it. Ditto for Troll, Sock, or anything to that effect. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-usernames-not-taken/423643/36 "2007-10-24T16:35:14Z")
Sir Nigel Dorking ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-usernames-not-taken/423643/37 "2007-10-24T17:36:52Z")
McLovin Did someone ever take Chicken of Bristol? ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-usernames-not-taken/423643/38 "2007-10-24T17:54:59Z")
For someone with a martyr complex, nothing would work better than posting here under the name of **Ignorance**. I’ve had thoughts of it a few times, but just because I’m a goofball. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-usernames-not-taken/423643/39 "2007-10-24T18:15:38Z")
Evol Shandor, the mysterious architect from Ghostbusters. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-usernames-not-taken/423643/40 "2007-10-24T18:16:19Z")
Awhile back I started threads on cool, never-used Tolkien and Monty Python usernames; there were some great ones there. Nowadays, if I were a Doper noob, I might go for: **Duke of Fraestead** - my AD&D character, long ago **Paladin** - which he was **Magistrate** - my current gig **Chief Justice** - my dream job **Buckeye** - I’m a proud Ohioan **Obie** - and a proud Oberlin graduate **Jethro Q. Walrustitty** - one of my all-time favorite Python silly names **H.M. Minister of Silly Walks** - from one of my favorite Python sketches **Wensleydale** - from both Python and Wallace & Gromit **Stinking Bishop** - also from W&G **Annatar** - Sauron’s Elvish name as the deceptive “giver of gifts” **His Majesty** - to fit my ego, heh **Imhotep Box** - the actual name of a person who appeared in court before me **Daphne Threat Medley** - ditto, but I’m a dude, so that would be too confusing… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-usernames-not-taken/423643.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-usernames-not-taken/423643.md?page=3)