# Do not take your screen name from a popular book or movie. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 21, 2002, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-take-your-screen-name-from-a-popular-book-or-movie/104778 "2002-04-21T04:57:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-take-your-screen-name-from-a-popular-book-or-movie/104778/21 "2002-04-21T15:08:15Z")
Well, looky here! I did a search and [Things I firmly believe about Dopers I never met](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=76808) survived. P.S. And looky what else I just discovered. If you take out the “&highlight=” from your search finds, the words you used to search do not show up in red in your linked thread. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-take-your-screen-name-from-a-popular-book-or-movie/104778/22 "2002-04-21T15:26:22Z")
I used to go around with the handle **Wowbagger**. People keeped asking me to insult them. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-take-your-screen-name-from-a-popular-book-or-movie/104778/23 "2002-04-21T15:33:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biggirl \* > **Is that where your name comes from yojimbo? I always thought your name was Jim and that your college roomates nicknamed you Jimbo and, when they wanted your attention they’d say “Yo, Jimbo!”…** To avoid confusion, I am not yojimbo. I am yojimbo_guy_(italics added for emphasis). In the RW, I _am_ a Jim, and I _was_ called both Jimbo and Yojimbo by some people, in the latter case because of the film reference (let’s just say I can be grumpy). When I was looking for an email address some few years ago, I never even bothered to find out what number Jim I would be. I tried Jimbo, Yojim, Yojimbo, all to no avail. When I tried yojimboguy, I hit gold. I haven’t run across any others anywhere. And this is the first place I’ve hit any confusion at all. **Yojimbo** , I have sent you greetings by separate email. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-take-your-screen-name-from-a-popular-book-or-movie/104778/24 "2002-04-21T16:25:52Z")
I have never, ever claimed to be little; I guess my nic is ok then? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-take-your-screen-name-from-a-popular-book-or-movie/104778/25 "2002-04-21T16:30:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Baker \* > \*\*But Eutychus, you don’t have to worry. Peter will bring you back to life. \*\* While Peter, Paul and Mary may sing in perfect harmony in this era, Paul brought Eutychus back to life all by himself back then. 🙂 jayjay ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-take-your-screen-name-from-a-popular-book-or-movie/104778/26 "2002-04-21T17:04:47Z")
Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen… ---
**Author:** ![Caesar\_s\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/73ab20/32.png) [@Caesar\_s\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caesar_s_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-take-your-screen-name-from-a-popular-book-or-movie/104778/27 "2002-04-21T17:52:13Z")
Yup, same with me. “See ya at Phillipi, Brutus.” “EEK! _stab_” “Bwahaha” Don’t mind me, I’m being weird. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-take-your-screen-name-from-a-popular-book-or-movie/104778/28 "2002-04-21T18:01:13Z")
Not an issue for me on the SDMB (I NEVER meet another Zoggie in print)…but my screen name on AOL is FenchurchIV. I haven’t perused Douglas Adams of late, but I think it would be so…odd. I’ve signed on as this name for about a year, so it would be unnerving to see someone else with what I believe to be my name. ---
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-take-your-screen-name-from-a-popular-book-or-movie/104778/29 "2002-04-21T18:08:08Z")
I have used character handles so long, that yes, I am known by several of them. I will in the real world be called Narile, or Alyt, or Mythilt by my friends and several of my aquantances. And I do thing of myself as being Narile, Alyt, and Mythilt sometimes. It goes with roleplaying the characters for 15 years. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-take-your-screen-name-from-a-popular-book-or-movie/104778/30 "2002-04-21T18:49:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eutychus \* > \*\*How do you think I feel? People keep wanting to push me out the window. \*\* You too? Had a sunday school teacher that told us an easy way to remember that name. “Eutychus’ed too if you fell out of a window” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ludo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Ludo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludo)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-take-your-screen-name-from-a-popular-book-or-movie/104778/31 "2002-04-21T19:06:45Z")
Hmmm…I’m named after a huge furry monster w/ a _slight_ underbite. Oh yeah, I have fleas! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-take-your-screen-name-from-a-popular-book-or-movie/104778/32 "2002-04-21T19:26:12Z")
I watched _The Virgin Suicides_ a few weeks ago, in which Kirsten Dunst’s character is named Lux. It was a little strange for me. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-take-your-screen-name-from-a-popular-book-or-movie/104778/33 "2002-04-21T20:17:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Mermaid \* > I have never, ever claimed to be little; I guess my nic is ok then? When I see your handle, [Winona Ryder](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0100140) comes to mind. 🙂 Since it’s been nearly 70 years since [Duck Soup](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0023969) was in the movie houses, the movie I took my handle from probably isn’t what the OP meant as “popular”, even though it’s very popular for a movie of that vintage. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-take-your-screen-name-from-a-popular-book-or-movie/104778/34 "2002-04-21T20:27:42Z")
Anybody know a princess or two that needs to be rescued? Since Dejah Thoris became a grandma, she hasn’t been abducted by bad guys as frequently as she was in the old days. Have sword and radium gun, will travel. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-take-your-screen-name-from-a-popular-book-or-movie/104778/35 "2002-04-21T21:45:04Z")
Well, it’s never been a problem for me. Few enough people seem to know that **Cal Meacham** was the brainy and sexy scientist hero of Raymond F. Jones’ book **This Island Earth** , or of the hero of the awful movie they made of it in the 1950s, where he was played by Rex Reason. Although I’ve recently found through the Search Engines that **Cal Meacham** is also the name of a band mad up of Math Majors. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-take-your-screen-name-from-a-popular-book-or-movie/104778/36 "2002-04-22T00:07:35Z")
Yeah, since I started using this handle, I’ve become really, really aware of how many people in real have the last name “Miller.” ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-take-your-screen-name-from-a-popular-book-or-movie/104778/37 "2002-04-22T00:28:43Z")
I picked my name for a lesserly famous Monty Python sketch. It is a bit disconcering to be referred to as Michael, but not really. ---
**Author:** ![GrandfatherTrout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@GrandfatherTrout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandfatherTrout)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-take-your-screen-name-from-a-popular-book-or-movie/104778/38 "2002-04-22T01:26:20Z")
Well, I got mine from an _obscure_ book. Albeit one with a cultish following amongst those in the know. So I never have to worry about running across references to ‘me’ in other fora. People have started calling me Trout IRL, which is fine. It’s a good nickname. The one catch is that Dopers tend to expect me to be a good 30 years older than I actually am. I got a lot of double-takes at the January DopeFest. ( **Persephone’s** was particularly good.) ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-take-your-screen-name-from-a-popular-book-or-movie/104778/39 "2002-04-22T01:50:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ludo \* > \*\*Hmmm…I’m named after a huge furry monster w/ a _slight_ underbite. Oh yeah, I have fleas! > > 😃 \*\* Ludo’s sooo cool!!! And clueless looking 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-take-your-screen-name-from-a-popular-book-or-movie/104778/40 "2002-04-22T01:58:44Z")
Oops, **jayjay,** that’s what I get for making a reply without checking. Don’t let my Sunday School class know the teacher screwed up! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-take-your-screen-name-from-a-popular-book-or-movie/104778.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-take-your-screen-name-from-a-popular-book-or-movie/104778.md?page=3)