# 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:** 6
**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, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/101 "2003-07-17T16:50:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hey you! \* > \*\*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…_ \*\* I mean **you with the face** , not **you with the hey** … 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/102 "2003-07-17T17:02:19Z")
It is my last name ---
**Author:** ![fotosbyfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/54ee81/32.png) [@fotosbyfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fotosbyfrank)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/103 "2003-07-17T17:33:58Z")
My name is Frank I’m a [fotographer](http://www.fotosbyfrank.com) Apparently, there’s another of me out there who has caused me no end of pain - I get threatening letters from some of his customers who have had less than satisfactory results from their business dealings with him. His site ends in .biz while mine is .com - and people SWEAR I’m the one that they have used. No - my milieu is fashion, not weddings, anniversaries, bar mitsvahs or birthday parties. ---
**Author:** ![HotRail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6bbea6/32.png) [@HotRail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HotRail)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/104 "2003-07-17T17:55:06Z")
Mine is a nickname I earned years ago that kind of stuck even tho it doesn’t apply anymore. But one time, back in my wild days, we were hotrailing meth. If you dont know what that means, its when you take a glass or metal straw, heat one end, and then snort a line. The idea is that some of the meth vaporizes when you snort it, so its like doing a line and smoking a hit at the same time. Don’t know if it really works, but thats the idea. Anyway, we were hotrailing, and I heated the end of the tube, and I stuck the wrong damn end (the red hot end) up my nose. The burning sensation was intense, but I figured, hell its already up there, theres nothing I can do about now, and I didn’t want to look like a sissy, so I went ahead and did the line anyway. My nose swelled up and blistered and it was really gross. So yeah, thats it. ---
**Author:** ![Toaster52](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/50afbb/32.png) [@Toaster52](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toaster52)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/105 "2003-07-17T19:41:04Z")
Clean answer: I’ve been involved with Toastmasters International since 1976 and my niece couldn’t say “Toastmasters”…abbreviated it to Toaster. Not so clean answer: my girlfriend at that time then took that and ran with it, saying I warmed her buns…😃 ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/106 "2003-07-17T22:27:02Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by dantheman > What would happen if **Hey you!** and **you with the face** got together … What we need is a third person named **You who?**. Then we could go around posting consecutively in the same sequence like this: **Hey you!** **You who?** **You with the face** \ And yes, I’m a woman. I’ve always read **mangetout** as **man get out** , never realizing until reading this thread that he was using French words. Learn sumthin new everyday. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/107 "2003-07-17T23:56:09Z")
My name is Fronk backwards. ---
**Author:** ![Monza305](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Monza305](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monza305)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/108 "2003-07-18T00:51:42Z")
Mine was my first car: '76 Chevy Monza with a 305 V8 engine. That car was a lot of fun to drive…too bad is was so damn rusty. ---
**Author:** ![finette6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@finette6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/finette6)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/109 "2003-07-18T01:21:10Z")
Back about 4 years ago, when I was getting my first AOL account, I was stuck for a screen name that wasn’t mindblowingly generic, but was still vague enough to last me for a while. After racking my brains, I took the book I was reading at the time (a collection of early 19th century French ‘Salon’ Fairy Tales) and picked the first name I saw. it’s actually the name of female protagonists in a few of the stories- I assume it means ‘refined’ or something similar. I actually don’t remember where the 6 came from, but I think it was a safety measure, so that when I signed up for accounts in the future at Yahoo and message boards, I wouldn’t have to worry about another finette out there getting to it first- I have a bad memory and if I had to remember which number was which account, it would be trouble! Also, I like the flow of it, and it’s kind of close to my last name. ---
**Author:** ![SexyHamster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SexyHamster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SexyHamster)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/110 "2003-07-18T01:37:08Z")
I play a fair number of online team based war games. I have a lot of fun with them, but have always felt that some people take them a little too seriously. While many people had handles along the lines of _SilentDeath_ or _EliteKiller_, I went with Hamster. Sexy was added for that extra bit of tongue in cheek. For no particular reason, I started using it on message boards as well. On the up side, the name is rarely taken. ---
**Author:** ![justwannano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ab992/32.png) [@justwannano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justwannano)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/111 "2003-07-18T06:04:50Z")
Cuz I justwannano lots of stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/112 "2003-07-18T10:22:34Z")
A _long_ time ago, (think ZX-81), there was a book my parents bought for me with the obvious title “Basic Computer Games”. Except they weren’t “Basic”, as in “simple”, which was what everyone thought-- No, this was a book full of code, for those who wanted to learn to program in this “BASIC.” I figured it out. In one of the examples, the user replied to the “WHAT IS YOUR NAME” prompt with “Darth.” That was just really cool to me. All you had to do was type “Darth”, and suddenly your 'puter thinks you _are_ “Darth”… Ten years later, I had a summer job canvassing for CoPIRG. Ten years after that, the dude is running for president. Really, it was easy for me to come up with my nick. Having been banned due to my poor use of the “^” in my original screenname, it just sort of appeared in my brain while I was trying to find a name **TubaDiva** was cool with. ---
**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 18, 2003, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/113 "2003-07-18T10:28:14Z")
10 CLS 20 PRINT “MY NAME IS DARTH NADER”; 30 GOTO 20 ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/114 "2003-07-18T10:37:17Z")
10 CLS 20 PRINT “WHAT IS YOUR NAME”; 30 INPUT A$ 40 PRINT "HI THERE, "; 50 PRINT A$ 60 END More like that, **dantheman** … 😉 ---
**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 18, 2003, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/115 "2003-07-18T11:33:33Z")
Oh, sure. Use **Extended** BASIC on me! ---
**Author:** ![parlo\_americano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b19c9b/32.png) [@parlo\_americano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parlo_americano)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/116 "2003-07-18T12:00:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hey you! \* > \*\*If I wasn’t secure in my masculinity, I would take offense at that remark hey you don’t worry about it…he assumed I was a man. guess he didn’t read my location. Answer 1: I was an ESL teacher and at first I constantly corrected my confused students until I realized they were speaking British English. Na? What did I do. I handled the situation like I always do - in true 80s teen angst film style: I drove up into the hills, looked out over the lights in the valley, drank from a bottle (though I can’t remember bringing with me), kicked something arms flailing, and let the sound of the Footloose sound track nurse my open wounds. Then I went back and said oops that’s right. Sorry for correcting you. I speak American English and we say an eraser not a rubber. Since then and other instances where I was obviously American… “What I have to pay for Ketchup? What? This is McDonald’s!” and almost stealing grocery bags at the A&P… have helped me to appreciate that I’m different. Not bad. Just different. And I don’t speak English; I speak American. Answer 2: Uh here’s a song that I misquoted it from [http://www.bestofparoles.com/lyrics.php?code=1244](http://www.bestofparoles.com/lyrics.php?code=1244) Io parlo americano. ---
**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 18, 2003, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/117 "2003-07-18T12:03:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by parlo americano \* > \*\*hey you don’t worry about it…he assumed I was a man. guess he didn’t read my location. > \*\* It’s true. I usually don’t bother checking the location if the gender seems perfectly obvious from the username. In this case, of course, it’s misleading. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/118 "2003-07-19T06:05:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by fotosbyfrank \* > **My name is Frank > I’m a [fotographer](http://www.fotosbyfrank.com)** Too bad the name **fstopfitzgerald’s** already taken, huh? 😃 I’ve always considered that such a **cool** name! Q ---
**Author:** ![chewbasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbe5ce/32.png) [@chewbasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chewbasta)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2003, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/119 "2003-07-20T21:55:37Z")
Its Sunday, and I see posters today, smee hasn’t seen yet… ---
**Author:** ![ArcticCircle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@ArcticCircle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArcticCircle)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835/120 "2003-07-20T22:04:11Z")
I am a true 28 year old Viking that was born and raised in Akureyri, Iceland … which is just south of the Arctic Circle. I currently live in Dallas, Texas which feels like “Hell” at this moment hehe! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-explain-you-names/188835.md?page=7)