# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/161 "2012-02-25T06:30:24Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > OK, but what is the “u” for? Unit. Pediatric ICU (Intensive Care Unit). I thought folks could figure at least that part out themselves. Guess not. ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/162 "2012-02-25T15:23:44Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Anaamika=the girl with no name, or anonymous. In Sanskrit it also means “ring finger” and the funny thing is, Chinese also calls the ring finger “unnamed”. The ring finger is literally “unnamed” in Finnish, too. ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/163 "2012-02-25T15:27:34Z")
I love trees, wood, and ancient weaponry, so my username is an obsolete Latin name for one of the greatest weapon woods in the world. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/164 "2012-02-25T16:03:52Z")
I was feeling shaky that day, and all the good variations on that were taken. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/165 "2012-02-25T16:39:39Z")
No real point to it. I used to use my real name but decided to change to something more anonymous. And I happened to be reading a collection of _Little Nemo in Slumberland_ comics that week. ---
**Author:** ![4d3fect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/4d3fect/32/9728_2.png) [@4d3fect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4d3fect)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/166 "2012-02-25T16:44:08Z")
> [@LightWithoutHeattttttttttttttt](#): > > Very obscure reference to a wacky old Steve Vai song called “Little Green Men”. Love that stuff, bought the Flex-able (sp?) vinyl when it first came out. For my part, I’m a tourist who got stuck here for rather longer than I’d planned. (if you pronounce it phonetically aloud you’ll probably get it) ---
**Author:** ![VernWinterbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c67d28/32.png) [@VernWinterbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VernWinterbottom)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/167 "2012-02-25T16:52:31Z")
Vern Winterbottom is a character in the fictional New England town I’ve been writing about since 1984. ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/168 "2012-02-25T18:24:10Z")
I was reading Zecharia Sitchin when first I stumbled onto this site. I thought at the time that this was a more ‘high-minded’ site than others I had seen. Enuma Elish are the first two words of the Babylonian creation epic which translate to: When in the heights… Enuma elish la nabu shamamu When in the heights Heaven had not been named Shaplitu ammatum shuma la zakrat And below, firm ground had not been called… ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/169 "2012-02-25T19:16:50Z")
No real significance. It’s a Hebrew word (חזוק), variably transliterated as “chizuk” meaning “strength,” as in, “I think I’m going to fail my comprehensive exams, I need some chizuk.” I think I was feeling down or something the day I picked it. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Ducky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrs_ducky/32/6227_2.png) [@Mrs\_Ducky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_Ducky)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/170 "2012-02-25T20:43:01Z")
My husband’s nickname is Ducky, so by default, I am Mrs\_Ducky. ---
**Author:** ![papergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/171 "2012-02-26T00:55:48Z")
I’m a papergirl. At the retirement home I deliver to, I’m commonly known as “that little girl who brings the papers” but at 48, that seems too long and not quite accurate. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/172 "2012-02-26T02:57:18Z")
> [@papergirl](#): > > I’m a papergirl. At the retirement home I deliver to, I’m commonly known as “that little girl who brings the papers” but at 48, that seems too long and not quite accurate. A good user name, papergirl. Well earned. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/173 "2012-02-26T03:06:59Z")
It’s my name. Plus the numbers that yahoo games made me add to it when I decided to play chess there back in 199…8, I want to say? Definitely back in the steam powered, dial-up days of Sprint and AOL Canada. antonio107ca, as the account originally was, no longer works. Someone hacked it. They no longer let you have five digit passwords, and so I never need to worry about ‘12345’ getting me into trouble again. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/174 "2012-02-26T03:35:37Z")
> [@antonio107](#): > > It’s my name. Plus the numbers that yahoo games made me add to it when I decided to play chess there back in 199…8, I want to say? Definitely back in the steam powered, dial-up days of Sprint and AOL Canada. > > antonio107ca, as the account originally was, no longer works. Someone hacked it. They no longer let you have five digit passwords, and so I never need to worry about ‘12345’ getting me into trouble again. 😃 Please tell us that the new password _ **isn’t** _ 12345678! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/175 "2012-02-26T04:22:14Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > As for **Malleus, Incus, Stapes!** , I just thought that the names of the [ossicles](http://oto2.wustl.edu/bbears/ossicle.htm) had a sort of poetic rhythm to them, and that the SDMB was a good place to have an obscure username. Honestly, I don’t think it’s even a little obscure. I think most people would know what they were if the Latin names were provided, though I don’t think they could do the reverse. ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/176 "2012-02-26T05:23:02Z")
My user name is inspired by the saying “the irony is so thick that you can…” and one of the thick metallic thing I can think of is a crowbar. The “+3” is a D&D reference, referring to the enchantment level of a weapon ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/177 "2012-02-26T07:11:21Z")
I love to ride my scooter any chance I get. I know that it’s not the most imaginative username, but I like it. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/178 "2012-02-26T14:45:25Z")
> [@JBDivmstr](#): > > Please tell us that the new password _ **isn’t** _ 12345678! 😛 That’s the same password I have. Amazing! ---
**Author:** ![CateAyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@CateAyo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CateAyo)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/179 "2012-02-26T15:58:50Z")
It is my tribal name. Cash award (not really) if anyone can idenitfiy the language and translation. ---
**Author:** ![Jasper\_Kent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@Jasper\_Kent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasper_Kent)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694/180 "2012-02-26T17:31:23Z")
Jasper is an old nickname (long story). Kent is my real first name, which I like better as a last name. I may one day legally change my name to Jasper Kent. I think it has a nice ring to it. I almost made my username **Raymond Kertezc** , after my favorite poet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-you-username/613694.md?page=10)