# Dopers, explain you names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 16, 2003, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835 "2003-07-16T07:58:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/81 "2003-07-17T05:20:41Z")
Self explanatory, really. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/82 "2003-07-17T05:43:04Z")
My name is Ric. I play several musical instruments, including the ukulele. My sister used to sing “Ba-ba-LOOOOO!” every time I’d play something on the uke. My AOL screenname was RicoBabalu, I shortened it to Rico when I signed up here. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/83 "2003-07-17T06:31:29Z")
[Flamsterette\_X](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=105572&highlight=Friends+Laughter+Music). F\_X ---
**Author:** ![flat\_pitch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/90ced4/32.png) [@flat\_pitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flat_pitch)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/84 "2003-07-17T06:42:17Z")
I’m not a singer. I am an airplane nut. I am a pilot. It refers to the prop blade angle. Flat… ---
**Author:** ![Jonno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@Jonno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonno)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/85 "2003-07-17T07:29:12Z")
I’m half irish and love things celtic. Oh, and I’m a cowboy. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/86 "2003-07-17T09:45:19Z")
I never saw that thread before, **Flami** … thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Vastard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Vastard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vastard)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/87 "2003-07-17T11:12:04Z")
When I announced to my friends in Minnesota that I was going to go all the way to New York for college, they combined the name of my school (Vassar) with what they thought of me for deciding that (Bastard). ---
**Author:** ![Ladyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Ladyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ladyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/88 "2003-07-17T11:16:05Z")
**I am a Lady, and my real last name is Rose, it is easy…** 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/89 "2003-07-17T11:26:27Z")
I have no explanation. I am a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma within a large cardboard box. Alternatively, it’s just my name. ---
**Author:** ![YoudNeverGuess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a587f6/32.png) [@YoudNeverGuess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoudNeverGuess)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/90 "2003-07-17T12:21:23Z")
My name came from the fact that I got into computer role-playing games a few years ago by accident. That is _Baldur’s Gate_ came free with my dad’s PC and I decided to give it a go and realised it was actually fun. Now we used to always mock my older brother for playing real RPGs thinking only total and visibly identifiable geeks (mostly male as well) were into this so I was a little embarassed about my newfound passion and felt slightly dirty 😃 So I went to a gaming site one day to try to get help with a difficult part of the game and read some of their forum. I decided I wanted to add my own opinion and had to register. Hence the name **YoudNeverGuess** as (hopefully) by looking at/talking to me you’d never guess (geddit) I was a closet RPG fan. The name was handy for other forums too and I think it adds a little mystique… 😉 God it feels weird to admit this in public. This feels a bit like how I’d imagine an AA Meeting to feel like. Now that you all know I guess the name’s mystique is gone now ☹ ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/91 "2003-07-17T12:47:27Z")
I have an optimistic outlook on life (generally), but unfortunately, knowing _my_ existence and the direction it usually takes, that seems to be a pretty foolish way to view things. So, I’m the upbeat court jester. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Waenara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/92 "2003-07-17T13:15:49Z")
It’s from the _Stardoc_ series of SF books by [SL Viehl](http://www.sff.net/people/slviehl/), specifically the novel _Endurance_. It’s complicated to explain, but basically **Waenara** is the affectionate nickname that one character gives to another. It means “beloved.” I probably tried 8 or 10 different names when registering, but they were all taken. I ended up using this one because I liked the sound of it and since the novel had only recently been published, it wasn’t a common name and it was easy to get an email address with the same name. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/93 "2003-07-17T13:16:20Z")
I’m a land use planner by profession. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/94 "2003-07-17T13:19:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mockingbird \* > \*\*Self explanatory, really. \*\* :: snotty voice :: Self-explanatory, _really_. 😉 [sub]get it?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Aziraphale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/46a35a/32.png) [@Aziraphale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aziraphale)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/95 "2003-07-17T13:19:51Z")
I like books. [Books like this one, for example.](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0441003257/qid=1058448063/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-2111818-2719038?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) … and this thread explains why I haven’t posted so far. Just can’t compete with all this rampant originality. ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/96 "2003-07-17T13:26:02Z")
Gwenifar’s father in the Arthurian legends is given variously as Leodegranse, Leon de Granse or Leon DeGrance. He is a person from mythology that I have always had sympathy for. ---
**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/97 "2003-07-17T13:35:45Z")
I was registering for a Pokemon ezboard, and I wanted something with roses in honor of James, who carries around a rose. My husband (he just hates being called Mr. TeaRoses) sat there with a gardening book and came up with this. It’s been a fairly popular name so I use it everywhere I can on the internet. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/98 "2003-07-17T15:53:39Z")
I am not a nurse. I am not a Carmen. _heck_, I’m a male computer geek. Back in the early days of Quake online, nearly a decade ago, I couldn’t settle on a name. So many names out there sounded the same…Killer…Anihilator…Axeman…Odin…etc…etc… I decided I would go against the grain, and choose something anti-Killer. Anti-Anihilator. Anti-etc… So I went with Cuddles. You know, just to piss people off. I just thought it was funny to see this giant heaving well-armed creature going by the name Cuddles. I became a target. Everybody hated Cuddles. I bacame a red stain on many castle walls. I had to think of something else. And soon. Since I knew most of the people I was playing against were around my age, and since I knew, that due to connection speeds, they were local, I decided to toss in local names. As a Minnesotan, I had many to choose from, and favored Paul Bunyon and Alexander Ramsey for a spell. But, they just didn’e strike the chord that I was looking for. I still wanted the Anti-Killer etc. feel. So I thought back to my childhood. Childhood Television specifically, cause hey, I’m a member of Generation X, so Television and childhood go hand in hand. A local station had a children’s hour that was produced locally. It was a poorly produced, poorly lit, poorly acted jumble of skits and ad pitch’s. Every kid my age loved it dearly. One of the characters in the show was a sweet woman who every boy had a crush on, and every girl wanted to grow up to be. Her name (in case you’ve been dropped on the head repeatedly and haven’t come to the conclusion yet) was Nurse Carmen. As soon as I stepped into the theoretical arena, I could sense the deference I was being treated with. I was no longer facing an RPG toting _Disemboweler_ or _Pillager_, I was looking down my sights at a bunch of five year old boys with freshly milked bowls of Qwisp or King Vitamin, sitting at the edge of their seat, enchanted at the thousands of pixels that formed their love, their ideal, their dreams of future wives, their Nurse Carmen. And they were helpless. I moved effortlessly through the castle, turning these snot nosed little urchans into smears of blood and bubbling pools of bone and gore. They had lost their resolve. Somewhere in the deep recess of their brains, a five year old would scream _“No…don’t! Don’t hurt her!”_ It would only last a moment, but a moment was all the advantage I needed. Much like the imaginary sinew and brain matter, the name stuck. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/99 "2003-07-17T16:04:27Z")
My name is Robin and I’m a girl. Hence **MsRobyn**. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Robin ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/100 "2003-07-17T16:28:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dantheman \* > **I think you is female… almost positive!** If I wasn’t secure in my masculinity, I would take offense at that remark and feel the need to continue a thread hijack just to tell you so! _wait a sec…_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835.md?page=6)