# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/41 "2016-07-13T19:18:06Z")
**Burpo The Wonder Dog** ; really is. He’s a wire haired pointer with dextrous paws and a firm grasp of the absurd. He’s also un-credited, but co-wrote Diner Du Cons and Amelie. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/42 "2016-07-13T19:21:00Z")
**Johnny L.A.** is from Kansas. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/43 "2016-07-13T19:21:30Z")
**Bricker** spent the first twenty years of his adult life in the construction business laying bricks. He didn’t get interested in law until a corrupt real estate developer attempted to tear down a community center he’d built and replace it with luxury condos, which inspired him to find a way to beat him in court. **Sir T-Cups** designed and built the famous teacup rides at Disneyland and Disneyworld. **Asimovian** is a non-Three-Laws-compliant humaniform that Han Fastolfe built in secret. ---
**Author:** ![JcWoman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jcwoman/32/2889_2.png) [@JcWoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JcWoman)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/44 "2016-07-13T19:22:30Z")
Oh, someone do me! Sadly, I’m not clever enough to come up with any good ones, but I’m another one who has always read Mangetout’s name as “mangy trout”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/45 "2016-07-13T19:24:12Z")
**FoieGrasIsEvil** once shot a farmer in [Alsace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace#Alimentation) just to watch him die. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/46 "2016-07-13T19:34:41Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > **Asimovian** is a non-Three-Laws-compliant humaniform that Han Fastolfe built in secret. A little too close to the truth. A colleague will be around shortly to [del]decommission[/del] debrief you. ---
**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 13, 2016, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/47 "2016-07-13T19:47:36Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > **Bumbershoot** has a huge collection of drink umbrellas that he/she refers to as _ma collection de parapluie_. After I’ve [del]had a few[/del] collected some new samples, it comes out more like _mog legshun duh pair blooies._ Oh, and I’m a ‘he’. ---
**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, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/48 "2016-07-13T19:50:18Z")
> [@JcWoman](#): > > Oh, someone do me! That is simple… we all know you are actually Mary Magdalene. Rumor is you also considered JcMainSqueeze as a user name. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/49 "2016-07-13T20:11:56Z")
**jsgoddess** is a master at JavaScript. **JcWoman** really digs Jesus H. Christ. ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/50 "2016-07-13T20:19:25Z")
> [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](#): > > **Clothahump’s** name IRL is Clothilda Humphries. Really? I always though that person was a Middle Eastern seamstress who specializes in raiment for camels. I guess that could still be her name… —G! ---
**Author:** ![JcWoman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jcwoman/32/2889_2.png) [@JcWoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JcWoman)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/51 "2016-07-13T20:50:32Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > **jsgoddess** is a master at JavaScript. > > **JcWoman** really digs Jesus H. Christ. LOL, okay too many people mistake the JC initials. How do I go about requesting a username change? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/52 "2016-07-13T21:11:21Z")
> [@swampspruce](#): > > **Burpo The Wonder Dog** ; really is. > > He’s a wire haired pointer with dextrous paws and a firm grasp of the absurd. He’s also un-credited, but co-wrote Diner Du Cons and Amelie. **Mutt, Mutt, Burpo the wonder MUTT!** :smack: In my defence, I’ve been on vac-kay for two weeks and we bought 5 cases of wine as a result of our tastings… ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/53 "2016-07-13T21:20:07Z")
**Cheshire Kat** is Katherine who lives in Cheshire. And has never read anything by Lewis Carroll > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > \*\*tomndebb \*\*is actually cojoined twins. > > **Annie-Xmas** hasn’t taken off her elf hat since she was 13. Knowed Out must knowed everything. I always wear a hat outside my house, thought not always an elf hat. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/54 "2016-07-13T21:46:36Z")
**faithfool** spends her Sundays at church picnics and potlucks, to which she always brings her trademark dessert of raspberries folded into custard. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/55 "2016-07-13T22:52:29Z")
\*\*Mangetout \*\*is a French bisexual with an oral fixation. ---
**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 13, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/56 "2016-07-13T22:59:38Z")
I picture **Ed Zotti** as the Wizard in the old BC comic strips; whenever the Wizard would cast a spell, the sound bubble was always ZOT! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/57 "2016-07-13T23:07:21Z")
**Onomatopoeia** ’s former user name was **BoomSizzleCuckooFuckMeowKrackleHootOinkScreech** , but that was too long. ---
**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 13, 2016, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/58 "2016-07-13T23:17:54Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I picture **Ed Zotti** as the Wizard in the old BC comic strips; whenever the Wizard would cast a spell, the sound bubble was always ZOT! Actually, I guess that was the _Wizard of Id_ strip. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/59 "2016-07-13T23:20:50Z")
**panache45** is the best-selling musk perfume by Chanel. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/60 "2016-07-13T23:32:48Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > **Sir T-Cups** designed and built the famous teacup rides at Disneyland and Disneyworld. Actually, you’re close… he was riding that particular attraction and got motion sickness. The “Sir” part either a sarcastic honorific or the sound he was making when he was praying to the porcelain goddess. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756.md?page=4)