# Explain you username **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 23, 2012, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694 "2012-02-23T03:51:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/21 "2012-02-23T05:24:11Z")
I am the real deal, not the mistake of that geographically challenged guy Columbus.šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/22 "2012-02-23T05:28:03Z")
> [@sisu](#): > > Sisu as this is how I would like myself to be. > > - endurance, resilience, tenacity, determination, perseverance > > - an inner reserve of diligence, capacity, the ability to face head-on and always overcome > > - craziness: the recklessness that inspires a person to take on something in the face of incredible odds > > - bravery, empowerment, inner strength > > Sisu means that you finish what you start, you donā€™t quit in the middle of a job, and you donā€™t whine. > > ā€œIt doesnā€™t take sisu to go to the North Pole; it takes sisu to stand at the door when the bear is on the other side.ā€ In many indian languages sisu=child. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/23 "2012-02-23T05:30:50Z")
I am Cazzle, which evolved from Caz, which is a standard Aussie nickname for girls called Carol, which is my real name. However, it was a nickname mostly used by my ex and I have been meaning to change it for several years now. This thread just inspired me to fire off a PM requesting the name change. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/24 "2012-02-23T05:31:58Z")
> [@indian](#): > > In many indian languages sisu=child. I think she is going for the [Finnish](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisu) meaning though. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/25 "2012-02-23T05:34:31Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > I think she is going for the [Finnish](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisu) meaning though. Yes. I checked it online also.šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/26 "2012-02-23T05:35:39Z")
> [@Cazzle](#): > > I am Cazzle, which evolved from Caz, which is a standard Aussie nickname for girls called Carol, which is my real name. However, it was a nickname mostly used by my ex and I have been meaning to change it for several years now. This thread just inspired me to fire off a PM requesting the name change. Thanks! Cazzle is a beautiful name. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/27 "2012-02-23T06:08:29Z")
Self explanatory. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/28 "2012-02-23T06:13:24Z")
PapSett is the abreviated form of my 2 dog breeds of choice- **PAP** illons and Gordon **SETT** ers. Simple, eh? ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/29 "2012-02-23T06:17:33Z")
I [DEL]stole[/DEL]borrowed mine from my brother, who was in the habit of using ā€œOtto da Feā€ as a throwaway option in multiple choice quiz questions regarding people. Knowing something of how his mind works ā€” because mine works in the same twisted fashion ā€” I imagine itā€™s a conflation of the Spanish Inquisition with Baron Otto Matic ([Tom Slick](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Slick_%28TV_series%29)ā€™s nemesis). ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/30 "2012-02-23T06:21:24Z")
Itā€™s a reference to the Warren Zevon song ā€œAccidentally Like a Martyrā€. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Know\_Nothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f04885/32.png) [@I\_Know\_Nothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Know_Nothing)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/31 "2012-02-23T06:31:34Z")
Socratic homage to my ignorance. I also liked when you had to use underscores instead of spaces in file names. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/32 "2012-02-23T06:34:03Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Self explanatory. You should try tea sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/33 "2012-02-23T06:39:45Z")
> [@azraiel](#): > > In 1992, I made the acquaintance of two girlsā€”best friends, both bright, and both irreverent. I was 17, they were 15. > > I met them through mutual friends, one of whom was dating one (and would later date the other). We bonded, and spent the summer between my junior and senior year (their freshman and sophomore year) hanging out. The two gave nicknames to everyone they met or knew, often yelling the nicks out at the top of their voices in the high school halls. e.g. all of the cheerleaders were R.O.U.S.es, one guy was Old People, another was Muppet, etc. > > Anywho, these two couldnā€™t come up with a nickname for me. Theyā€™d already named my truck (1971 Ford F100) ā€œBeashtā€. One lovely spring afternoon (ā€™93) we were driving around downtown Hays, America, (thatā€™s an inside jokeā€¦) and the private Catholic primary school had just gotten out. With their powder-blue uniforms, they were known as ā€œsmurfsā€ in town. I made an off-hand crack about how I should just drive them over. The two looked at each other with an expression of absolute delight and dubbed me ā€œazraiel,ā€ as in Gargamelā€™s cat from the ā€œSmurfs.ā€ > > Iā€™m not named after the ā€œangel of deathā€. Iā€™m not a gothling. I was given my nick by two silly 15-year-old girls almost 20 years ago. Named after a cartoon cat. But Iā€™ve used it as an online ID since 1994, so why change? And anyone googling my nick is going to find a whole lot of weepy emo shite, and not me. So fair play. I would never have told that, dude. J/K ---
**Author:** ![2gigch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2gigch1/32/3313_2.png) [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/34 "2012-02-23T06:51:27Z")
_2 gigahertz channel 1 minus offset horizontal polarity_, the primary microwave frequency of a tv station I used to work for, 2gigch1 shorthand. How exciting. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/35 "2012-02-23T06:56:12Z")
## Whatā€™s Irish and stays out all night long? I am here: [Google Maps](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=13.961945,100.627876) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/36 "2012-02-23T06:58:30Z")
M name is Bo. Iā€™m a snowboarder. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/37 "2012-02-23T07:04:30Z")
An amusing-to-me variant on a character Iā€™ve got some things in common with. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/38 "2012-02-23T07:06:18Z")
**azraiel** , the cat youā€™re named for _is_ named after the angel of death, tho. Definitely not emo, mind you, just deadly. **Nava** is Navarra (where Iā€™m from), minus the syllable foreigners choke on. ---
**Author:** ![florez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9e5f3/32.png) [@florez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/florez)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/39 "2012-02-23T07:12:48Z")
I used to have a small business making organic herbal balms, salves, and tinctures called FLOREZ BOTANICALS, and many of the herbs I gathered myself. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/40 "2012-02-23T08:09:59Z")
> [@azraiel](#): > > Iā€™m not named after the ā€œangel of deathā€. _\<\\>_ Named after a cartoon cat. That is fucking hilarious. I love it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694.md?page=3)