# Explain someone else's user name, please! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 12, 2016, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756 "2016-07-12T22:16:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [July 12, 2016, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/1 "2016-07-12T22:16:34Z")
Another thread asks posters to explain their own user names. It’s fascinating to see other peoples’ minds working. This is **not** that thread. Oh, no. This one is much sillier. If you actually know why a poster has that name, ignore it. You are now asked to make a wild, maybe humorous, guess at how the user chose that name. Improvise all you want; go crazy! Remember, don’t get serious. Points off for being factual. **It’s all in good fun,** and all proceeds, if any, will be donated to charity, or something. For example,… **Czarcasm** is the canyon of time between Russian royal regimes. This last Czarcasm has lasted a really long time. I’m pretty sure you can top that. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/2 "2016-07-12T22:25:33Z")
I like to think Stranger on a Train performed a criss-cross murder a while back and got away with it. ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/3 "2016-07-12T22:28:20Z")
AsKnott is the user who hides his anxiety driven personality so much he goes through life As Don Knotts ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/4 "2016-07-12T22:29:49Z")
I just have to say that every time I see **Scumpup** , I want to say ‘Scumping up, sir!’ Also, **WOOKINPANUB** makes me think of Chewbacca having a pint. . ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/5 "2016-07-12T22:48:28Z")
YogSothoth: War is brewing. A battle has been going on between the Looney Tunes and Hanna Barbera characters. In one showdown, Yogi Bear and Sylvester the Cat are facing off. Eventually Sylvester the Cat slays Yogi Bear, skins him, and fluffs up the pelt so it is the softest bear skin rug ever. He names the rug: Yog So thoth ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/6 "2016-07-12T23:31:17Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > I like to think Stranger on a Train performed a criss-cross murder a while back and got away with it. Seaman Faulkner works on a whaling ship when he’s not posting on this board. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/7 "2016-07-12T23:41:35Z")
**Rick** is an anal-retentive chap with serious OCD issues who insists on everything being stacked in precise patterns. **Chefguy** possesses quite the head of spikey, bleached hair and spends his days bothering honest restauranteurs with his total lack of knowledge and obnoxiousness. **pulykamell** is a baby ungulate with digestive issues who whines too much. **Johnny LA** (sic) operates a portapotty franchise in Baton Rouge. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/8 "2016-07-12T23:42:40Z")
**Cunctator** I always see as being a more profane and opposite version of the word _dictator_, only instead of a _DICK-tator_, it’s a… ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/9 "2016-07-12T23:42:46Z")
\*\*swampbear \*\*is neither a swamp nor a bear. His name recalls the time in summer camp when he \*\*swam \*\*with **p** eanut **b** utter in his **ear**. Most normal people would be traumatized by such an experience, but he’s oddly proud of that moment. However, his later attempts to repeat the feat with jelly led to his hospitalization and subsequent fear of marmalade. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/10 "2016-07-12T23:46:04Z")
I’ve said for years that **mangetout** is NOT man get out, but a mangy trout. And I stick to it. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/11 "2016-07-12T23:53:47Z")
**FairyChatMom** is in fact a fairy. Or thinks she is. She runs around in this silver tutu, gold lame leggings and pink ballet slippers throwing glitter all over everyone and everything she sees. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/12 "2016-07-12T23:59:15Z")
**koeeoaddi** is the father of a child named Keo. **puzzlegal** has a perfectly legal puzz. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/13 "2016-07-13T00:08:35Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > I like to think Stranger on a Train performed a criss-cross murder a while back and got away with it. **snfaulkner** writes short, manageable sentences. He is So Not Faulkner. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/14 "2016-07-13T00:10:23Z")
**unauthorized cinnamon** is a Spice Girl wannabe. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/15 "2016-07-13T00:22:05Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > **snfaulkner** writes short, manageable sentences. He is So Not Faulkner. **BigT** is a cat burgler and has a large cache of stolen loot buried under a tree. His real name is Malloy and he has the world’s largest Cubic Zirconium on his living room table. (What an eyesore!) ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/16 "2016-07-13T00:29:36Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > I’ve said for years that **mangetout** is NOT man get out, but a mangy trout. And I stick to it. Wow, have I been wooshed all these years (or just now?) I always read that as _mange tout_, French for “eat everything”. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/17 "2016-07-13T00:35:13Z")
> [@Karen\_Lingel](#): > > Wow, have I been wooshed all these years (or just now?) I always read that as _mange tout_, French for “eat everything”. No, you are right (or so I think). Mangetout is in reference to [this guy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito). A French entertainer who eats(ate)…well…everything. ---
**Author:** ![Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/18 "2016-07-13T01:05:13Z")
**Clothahump’s** name IRL is Clothilda Humphries. **Colibri** and his missus were both born under the astrological sign Libra, the plural of which is Libri. They are co-Libri. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/19 "2016-07-13T01:28:16Z")
**Idle Thoughts** is a really bad speller who keeps thinking about the Bieb. ---
**Author:** ![Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/20 "2016-07-13T01:47:47Z")
**Edward’s beard** is a pretty young woman whom Elizabeth II paid to date her son, Prince Edward, in order to deflect rumors about his sexual orientation. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756.md?page=2)