# Explain your DoperName! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 19, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169 "2008-01-19T17:24:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![uncle\_squeegee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b5e925/32.png) [@uncle\_squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uncle_squeegee)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/21 "2008-01-19T20:29:54Z")
In my late 20s, for no apparent reason that I can remember, I said to a friend “I wish my name was Squeegee.” Later that same day, she noticed my hair looked like Uncle Charlie from _My Three Sons._ Then she mashed them together and decided that should be my rapper name, so it became MC Uncle Squeegee. I will neither confirm nor deny the possible smoking of illegal substances that day. The MC was eventually dropped. And now, a tangent. To live up to my billing, I wrote a couple songs. One was called _Killer Clowns_ in honor of the name-giving friend’s sister, who is clown-phobic (the song has been lost in the mists of time). The other was called _My Butt Hurts._ Intro was “My butt hurts from sitting too long/My butt hurts so I wrote this song.” The rest of it was the tune of _Tequila_ with “My Butt Hurts” shouted instead of “Tequila.” I still am waiting for royalty checks. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/22 "2008-01-19T20:56:57Z")
It’s part of the name of my punk band. My uncle came up with the band name when he was a cook at a fancy country club. The other cooks played a practical joke on him since he was a rookie. They gave him some butterflied pork fillets and told him it was “flander” and it costs $50 for each plate of it. “What is flander?” It’s wolf pussy. Obviously, not true, but funny. The band name stuck, and I started using the name Flander on band site logins and such.[ ---
**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/23 "2008-01-19T21:00:37Z")
Banner is software I used to use for work. When I was on this board I was escaping from the software. Therefore Bannerrefugee I was going to change it once I left that job. Now my new place of employment is going to Banner. So it will be accurate again. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/24 "2008-01-19T21:05:29Z")
I wanted to be a college prof since I was in second grade. I love the academic environment. I feel very much at home there. That being said… I am considering a name change… ---
**Author:** ![amelioration](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9c0ed/32.png) [@amelioration](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amelioration)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/25 "2008-01-19T22:02:06Z")
The word **amelioration** means “the act of improving, amending, making better than before”. I thought of it as a nice, simple declaration of my broadest intentions of my life–to become a better person (whatever that might mean). Also, one of the many internet aliases I’ve used in the past was **Ame** , so when I was stumbling around for a good Dopername and I found a word with “Ame” at the beginning, it just seemed to click together. And how did I actually come across this word? Through scanning the Word of the Day archives on [Dictionary.com](http://Dictionary.com). (It was WotD on July 16, 1999.) ---
**Author:** ![DeathLlama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@DeathLlama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeathLlama)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/26 "2008-01-19T22:05:55Z")
[QUOTE=Wallflower] I’m the one at the party having a wonderful time people watching. I am pretty quiet, usually, just compare my join date with my post count, I might reach 200 by the end of the year. [/QUOTE] Hey, me too! Maybe I should have been the wallllama… Anyhow. I am the DeathLlama because I thougt it would be amusing if angels, instead of taking human form, looked like something else…say, llamas. Instead of an angel of death, you’d have a llama of death. And who could take death seriously if he showed up with a scythe in one hoof and a llama snout poking out from his black hood? I amused myself, registered the domain name, and that’s what I am most online places I visit. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/27 "2008-01-19T22:07:50Z")
Old football nickname, apropos of nothing in my present life. It more or less randomly floated across my brain when registering. It doesn’t really mean anything, per se. ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/28 "2008-01-19T22:15:52Z")
Birth certificate, and this was the first forum where it wasn’t already taken. ---
**Author:** ![CatInASuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3be4f8/32.png) [@CatInASuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatInASuit)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/29 "2008-01-19T22:32:15Z")
I have been accused of acting to much like a cat on occasions and I also work for a large consultancy, so of my friends at the time, I was the only one who always wore a suit to work. Hence being Cat In A Suit Consider me Catbert 🙂 Although for me its java coding and not HR. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/30 "2008-01-19T22:34:43Z")
When I was a kid and talking dolls (ala Chatty Cathy, NOT Talky Tina!) were all the rage, I had a talking Casper The Friendly Ghost doll. From day one, the phrase, “I’M a FRIENDLY ghost” (spoken in a very singsong voice) was garbled. My sisters and I thought it sounded like he was saying, “I’M a FRECK a free.” I just like the way it sounds. I use it for all sorts of stuff. It is very frequently misread as freakafree. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/31 "2008-01-19T22:46:46Z")
Missed the edit window… **bufftabby** , I regret to inform you that you have broken one of the cardinal rules of SDMB. If one mentions a kitteh, one must supply kitteh pictures. So show us Mr. R R J B! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/32 "2008-01-19T22:47:21Z")
I used to go by the name of **slythe**. One night, halfway through a bottle of Tully, I decided it would be a great idea to have a “Rename The Moderator” contest. And came _this_ close to being called “Chicken Of Bristol”. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/33 "2008-01-19T22:52:39Z")
“The man who does not enjoy drinking is mad.” [**Silenus**. Euripides, _Cyclops_ 169] I am what [I am](http://www.pantheon.org/articles/s/silenus.html). ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/34 "2008-01-19T22:54:47Z")
I used to be here under another name ( which I cannot for the life of me remember… ) and wanted a name change. Pretty early on too, since **Cartooniverse** is a 99’er. ABC, I think used to run its Saturday Morning Cartooniverse. Hours of great cartoons. Good childhood memories. Me and Mitch my best pal, sitting on his sofa. Small boxes of cereal, cut open with milk carefully poured into the small wax bag. Good times. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/35 "2008-01-19T22:57:54Z")
[Gary Gnu](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAwVIZDAUF0). My favorite character on the old Great Space Coaster program when I was little. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/36 "2008-01-19T23:48:20Z")
pretty simple - I play the bagpipes (badly) and live north of most Dopers. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/37 "2008-01-20T00:48:49Z")
I have red hair. I signed up while living in Canada’s Northwest Territories. I now live in Baltimore. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/38 "2008-01-20T01:07:23Z")
My real life name is xxxxxxxxxSam Clementsxxxxxxxxxxx. Remove all of the “x.” When I first got a computer, I had to sign up with a name, and it seemed a good idea at the time. I’m pretty much wedded to simple things, so that’s been my online persona everywhere. Boring. ---
**Author:** ![giant\_freakin\_marine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9fc348/32.png) [@giant\_freakin\_marine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/giant_freakin_marine)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/39 "2008-01-20T01:19:27Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] “The man who does not enjoy drinking is mad.” [**Silenus**. Euripides, _Cyclops_ 169] I am what [I am](http://www.pantheon.org/articles/s/silenus.html). [/QUOTE] Given that, you sir, are one of the sanest people I’ve ever met. Just turn the shirt down a little bit. 😃 S.O. gave me this name to use on the boards. Silenus validated it when we met. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/40 "2008-01-20T01:26:11Z")
[QUOTE=pulykamell] “cevapcici” [/QUOTE] Damn you, now I’m hungry! I took my name after [this guy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dag_Otto_Lauritzen) , because I raced bicycles and I think it sounds good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169.md?page=3)