# Doper user names and their origins **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 13, 2001, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-user-names-and-their-origins/93055 "2001-11-13T03:23:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Tsubaki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@Tsubaki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tsubaki)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-user-names-and-their-origins/93055/61 "2002-03-30T01:47:15Z")
I wanted a name which would reflect something about Japan. The obvious was Sakura, but wherever you go someone already has that name. So I decided to use the floral emblem of the city I live in. The floral emblem is a camellia, which is Tsubaki in Japanese. I like it. ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-user-names-and-their-origins/93055/62 "2002-03-30T01:47:59Z")
BTW, **Kwyjibo,** I get the reference (I’m sure many other Dopers do as well). 😉 A large…dumb…balding…ape! “With a short temper…!” For me, well, here she is: [Ruffian](http://www.thoroughbredchampions.com/gallery/ruffian1.htm) Besides that, I do like the idea of _being_ a “ruffian.” ---
**Author:** ![MamaHen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@MamaHen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MamaHen)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-user-names-and-their-origins/93055/63 "2002-03-30T01:52:15Z")
\*\* MamaHen\*\* came about one day when a small egg was hatched, another one soon followed making me a Mama. Then fast forward to the day I am signing up for the SDMB and my husband says “You cluck around like a MamaHen”. And that’s the amazing tale behind…my name. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-user-names-and-their-origins/93055/64 "2002-03-30T01:52:37Z")
When I first registered on this MB, I chose the name Kumbuckta after a mythical little Aussie town, Upper Kumbuckta West. We have some real VERY strange place names here…Yackandandah, Nar Nar Goon, Goondiwindi etc, and Upper Kumbuckta West was sort of a spoof on our collective creativity. It was coined by a very famous kids-program-turned-feral, “Hey Hey It’s Saturday” which finally died a couple of years ago after 20 years on the box. Anyway, I registered with Kumbuckta, but something went awry and I had to RE-register. But of course, I couldn’t use KUMbuckta anymore, because someone already had it…ME…even though I couldn’t access it. So KAMbuckta was the next best thing. ---
**Author:** ![Merhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Merhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merhouse)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-user-names-and-their-origins/93055/65 "2002-03-30T04:35:22Z")
Well, it’s like this… I became friends with a guy who was in a lot of the same college classes as I was. Turns out he lived about 25 miles from my hometown, even though we were in school 200 miles away. His mother had a summer house right on the beach, oddly enough known as The Summer House. My friend was in a band called, well, Summerhouse, because that’s where they used to go to get creative and be musicians. We’re getting there, I promise 😉 Anyway, every band member had t-shirts with those iron-on letters proclaiming the name of their band… Summerhouse. Well, everyone except for my friend, whose SUM had been destroyed in a nasty washing machine accident… so, HIS t-shirt proclaimed that he was in the band known as… MERHOUSE And here I am 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-user-names-and-their-origins/93055/66 "2002-03-30T04:50:55Z")
Mine’s a variation on a really old, hackneyed joke related to my chosen profession. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-user-names-and-their-origins/93055/67 "2002-03-30T04:57:17Z")
I am, indeed, a 5-time-undefeated-Jeopardy-champion-with-winnings-of-$50,703-and-a-2002-Chevrolet-Tahoe. I crashed and burned in the Tournament of Champions, however. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bad_Astronomer)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-user-names-and-their-origins/93055/68 "2002-03-30T05:00:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Forbin \* > \*\*Mine is from an old sci-fi movie called,“The Forbin Project”. > It’s about a supercomputer,invented by Mr.Forbin. \*\* I had a computer named Colossus for that very reason. Awesome flick. A bit dated now, but still tautly done. ---
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-user-names-and-their-origins/93055/69 "2002-03-30T05:23:36Z")
I’m a law student. The name is a term in negligence law referring to… oh, heck…do the work yourself…get a Latin to English dictionary and look it up. It’s more fun that way. It’s also more fun if you tack onto my name the phrase “sed quid in inferno dicet?” Hee hee hee. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-user-names-and-their-origins/93055/70 "2002-03-30T06:34:05Z")
If you can find a reference to mine somewhere in the comic arts, I’ll give you $5. I ‘earned’ my nick on a MUCK, and kept it to this day. I’m also **Tripler** everywhere I e-go . . . Tripler It has nothing to do with the hospital in Hawaii. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-user-names-and-their-origins/93055/71 "2002-03-30T11:33:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tsubaki \* > \*\*I wanted a name which would reflect something about Japan. The obvious was Sakura, but wherever you go someone already has that name. So I decided to use the floral emblem of the city I live in. The floral emblem is a camellia, which is Tsubaki in Japanese. > > I like it. \*\* Well, since you registered after my daughter, you wouldn’t have been able to use **Sakura** anyway. That’s her SDMB name. She chose it just because it’s pretty (and so is she. 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-user-names-and-their-origins/93055/72 "2002-03-30T13:43:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dave Stewart \* > \*\*I like “'punha”. > > As for my user name… Res ipsa loquitur. \*\* You can’t fool me. It speaks for itself that your name isn’t that “Res ipsi” thing. It’s “Dave Stewart”. Ha! I’m too smart for you! Fenris PS: **'puna** : I vote you keep your current name. I fear change. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-user-names-and-their-origins/93055/73 "2002-03-30T13:44:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Bad Astronomer \* > \*\* > > I had a computer named Colossus for that very reason. Awesome flick. A bit dated now, but still tautly done. \*\* Awsome flick, better book (D.F. Jones, IIRC) Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-user-names-and-their-origins/93055/74 "2002-03-30T13:54:02Z")
I’ve really explained this too many times already, but what the hell … once more won’t hurt. In the biblical book of Acts, we are introduced to a character named Eutychus. Not too much is known about him, except that he was once in an third story room, listening to the apostle Paul preach, sitting on the window sill. Paul, taking a cue from any good Baptist preacher, talked on … and on … an on … long into the night. Poor Eutychus tried his best, I’m sure, to keep up, but finally fell asleep. And promptly fell out the window. Although no miracles are attested to his name, nor any good works, I have chosen to take my name from one who, I believe, can rightly be given the title of the patron saint of all those who fall asleep in church. ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-user-names-and-their-origins/93055/75 "2002-03-30T16:27:17Z")
A friend of mine made up a song called_Hardy Girl_ to the tune of _Barbie Girl_ about my crush on [Jeff Hardy](http://www.hardyzyearbook.com/pictures/extreme/extreme10.jpg). When I went online, I adopted the name, tweaking it to reflect my love of punk rock-changing “girl” to “grrl” and squishing it all together. ---
**Author:** ![Anubis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Anubis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anubis)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-user-names-and-their-origins/93055/76 "2002-03-30T16:41:42Z")
An ancient Egyptian god, sometimes referred to the god of: [ul] [li]the Dead[/li][li]the afterlife[/li][li]Hi, Opal[/li][li]Embalming[/li][/ul] but all of those are happy little things to be the god of, so I chose good ol’ Anubis. **Osiris** , how 'bout you? Is your name from the Egyptian god Osiris or did you just choose that name? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Duality](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.duality/32/4098_2.png) [@Mr.Duality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Duality)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-user-names-and-their-origins/93055/77 "2002-03-30T16:44:18Z")
My personality has a plurality. That’s why they call me Mr. Duality. From “Mr. Duality”, a sonf by The Bobs. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Duality](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.duality/32/4098_2.png) [@Mr.Duality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Duality)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-user-names-and-their-origins/93055/78 "2002-03-30T16:49:02Z")
Two chickens in my pot. Twice as much as you’ve got. Of course I meant “song”, not “sonf”. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-user-names-and-their-origins/93055/79 "2002-03-30T21:00:58Z")
my sig explains it ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-user-names-and-their-origins/93055/80 "2002-03-30T21:52:36Z")
I love California! The state flag depicts a grizzly bear and is referred to as the bear flag. I was born in '70. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-user-names-and-their-origins/93055.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-user-names-and-their-origins/93055.md?page=5)