# 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:** 6
**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 14, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/101 "2016-07-14T22:12:59Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > **Hbk4894** : A robot sent back from the future to collect data on humans. He uses the serial number he was issued during his manufacture as his screen name. Oh how this made me laugh!!! šŸ˜ƒ ---
**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 14, 2016, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/102 "2016-07-14T22:16:09Z")
Chappachula is The Next Big Thing to be offered at Taco Bell. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/103 "2016-07-14T22:28:36Z")
See, **Sir T-Cups** is actually a raging alcoholic, but lived in a Victorian society. He can only get his groove on with his pinky up holding a demitasse. **silenus** was the name of Dirty Harryā€™s other gun. I think **Bumbershoot** does documentaries of Rankin Bass characters. I believe that **BrotherCadfael** can blame nepotism for eating too many yummy, chocolate Easter eggs. And then not sharing. **iiandyiiii** is a clone who has eyesight so bad, they need four sets of glasses for each pair of 'em. Yeah, work that out. Iā€™m jealous that **panache45** got to be the decorator at the world famous sister club to Studio 54. Now I donā€™t know them well, but I envision **Paintcharge** being the Supervisor of up selling at a big box DIY store. Imagine everyoneā€™s surprise at the things they add on to your bill these days. ---
**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 14, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/104 "2016-07-14T23:56:59Z")
thelurkinghorror is addicted to infocom text adventures, but has been playing The Lurking Horror and been stuck trying to get the floor waxer to move since 1987. ---
**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 15, 2016, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/105 "2016-07-15T04:39:07Z")
**Chappachula** is a place that haunted Ted Kennedy for the rest of his life. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/106 "2016-07-15T16:57:38Z")
**Chappachula** was the bridge Billy Joe McCallister was _going_ to jump from, but it was clear on the other side of the county, so he settled for the Tallawhatsis. Nothing more pathetic than a lazy suicide. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/107 "2016-07-15T17:52:12Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Ha. Nice. Speaking of **Sahirrnee** ā€¦ > > This name was originally going to be Shirnee, but itā€™s also when they realized their keyboard was brokenā€¦ Itā€™s what happens when you eat sourdough pretzels over the keyboard, all the salt gets caught under the keys. I always thought **Chappachula** is a distant cousin to the Chupacabra. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/108 "2016-07-15T18:03:30Z")
I picture **John Mace** as being a guy named John Mace. ---
**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 15, 2016, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/109 "2016-07-15T18:38:18Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > I picture **John Mace** as being a guy named John Mace. John Mace was better known as John Mace Tyrell. Sadly, he was fried and fragmented two weeks ago when Cersei Lannister blew up the Sept. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/110 "2016-07-15T19:30:03Z")
**Balance** is a yogi. **watchwolf49** used to work for the US Forest Service, tracking a particular wolf via radio collar. **Max Torque** overheard a Dungeons and Dragons player referring to a ā€œmasked orcā€ ---
**Author:** ![X.L.Lent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a5b964/32.png) [@X.L.Lent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X.L.Lent)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/111 "2016-07-16T08:53:33Z")
**Musicat** - a talented kitty that can play musical insturments **Trinopus** - an octopus with only three arms **burpo the wonder mutt** - is an exhibit at an old time carnival show: _"Step right this way folks! For only 10 cents - one thin dime - you can see the most incredible living thing on the face of the earth! The amazing **BURPO THE WONDER MUTT** _!!!" **Johnny L.A.** - Dashiell Hammettā€™s original name for his hardboiled detective character Sam Spade **Mama Zappa** - is Frank Zappaā€™s mom **Nava** - for a long time I misread this as ā€œNadaā€ which is the Spanish word for ā€œNothingā€. (Sorry about that \*\* Nava\*\* .) ---
**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 16, 2016, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/112 "2016-07-16T14:27:55Z")
Say what you will about \*\*Waltzes with Cacti \*\*, he has one very thick skin. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/113 "2016-07-16T17:49:14Z")
**X. L. Lent** - 7th century Pope (Xavier Leonardo I) who established the 40-day pre-Easter fasting period that bears his name. So beloved in the Old World, that his name became pidgin-Latin for ā€œoutstanding quality.ā€ _Thanks for the **burpo** blurb; I love it!_ ---
**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 18, 2016, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/114 "2016-07-18T23:28:59Z")
**Ellis Dee** ā€“From her initials, Lucy Sky Diamonds ---
**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 19, 2016, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/115 "2016-07-19T13:28:53Z")
**John Mace** : A product you carry with you to ward off attackers in public rest rooms. **Annie-Xmas** : An orphan spending Yuletide with Daddy Warbucks. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/116 "2016-07-19T14:50:22Z")
**Chefguy** was the model for the labels on those yukky canned pastas. His family could never decide on a good first name, so his birth certificate still reads ā€œBoy Ardee.ā€ **Exapno Mapcase** was taught to read from Keuffel+Esser catalogs. ---
**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 19, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/117 "2016-07-19T15:40:05Z")
**gotpasswords** picked his name to brag about his prowess in stealing other peoplesā€™ passwords. Of course, he goes by this list, which makes his bragging less impressive: [INDENT] 1. 123456 2. password 3. 12345678 4. qwerty 5. 12345 6. 123456789 7. football 8. 1234 9. 1234567 10. baseball [/INDENT] šŸ˜ƒ ---
**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 19, 2016, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/118 "2016-07-19T17:01:44Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > **gotpasswords** picked his name to brag about his prowess in stealing other peoplesā€™ passwords. Of course, he goes by this list, which makes his bragging less impressive: > 5. 12345 Amazing! Iā€™ve got the same combination on my luggage. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/119 "2016-07-19T18:11:39Z")
**Grrr!** may not be the most eloquent poster, but you should see him perform [Puttinā€™ on the Ritz](http://www.rantlifestyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Young-Frankenstein-waynesouthsmith.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756/120 "2016-07-19T18:56:29Z")
> [@August\_West](#): > > **Balance** is a yogi. And August West is the secret Emperor of the Western Hemisphere. Wearying of isolation in his hidden palace in the Sierra Nevada, from which he issues royal decrees to the ostensible leaders of nations, he has established an online persona with which to interact with the hoi polloi. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-someone-elses-user-name-please/759756.md?page=7)