# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/41 "2008-01-20T01:29:17Z")
I garden. I travel. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/42 "2008-01-20T01:34:04Z")
Originally my “DoperName” was deemed offensive. So rather than change it I simply abbreviated it. That’s it. Yup. ---
**Author:** ![Carm6773](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2bfe46/32.png) [@Carm6773](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carm6773)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/43 "2008-01-20T01:44:11Z")
What I am called by my close friends and my birthdate. I know, boring… ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/44 "2008-01-20T01:53:28Z")
My nickname throughout my '20s used to be Jesse. Kind of a long story, but my maiden name was James, so when I joined the Navy some friends started calling me Jesse and it stuck. When I got married, though, and changed my last name, it made a whole lot less sense – Jesse has no connection at all to my real first name, and none to my married last name. So it was just a big explanation all the time… When we came back to the US after I left the Navy, that seemed like a good time to go back to my original first name, so I did. Then, when I first started with the internet, it occured to me to use some version of Jess n my screennames – I liked it because it was still ‘me,’ but not my IRL name. I used a couple of different versions. SkeptiJess was one that I used back on the AOL boards. Anyway, when the new board came up and I registered, ‘Jess’ was available so I registered as that… Now I wish I’d sticked with SkeptiJess, or something else that would be more easily searchable – I have a heck of a time doing a vanity search with Jess. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/45 "2008-01-20T02:08:15Z")
[QUOTE=Czarcasm] I used to go by the name of **slythe**. [/QUOTE] [Yesssss?](http://www.purrsiathunder.net/thunderpedia/index.php?title=Slithe) I’m Silvercat or Silvercat17 everywhere else, but it was taken here. The misspelling is intentional and based on Thundercats. My online persona is a silver & blue anthro tiger with big furry wings. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/46 "2008-01-20T02:17:57Z")
Mine isn’t terribly creative. It’s is as much of “electrical engineer / computer geek” as will fit into a yahoo e-mail name. I use the same ID for pretty much everything online. ---
**Author:** ![This\_ll\_Do](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/this_ll_do/32/3023_2.png) [@This\_ll\_Do](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_ll_Do)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/47 "2008-01-20T02:59:35Z")
I really needed to change my Dope handle. Made a list of a couple dozen options and finally got tired of my own obsessive waffling: it’s just a username fercryinoutloud-- this’ll do. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/48 "2008-01-20T03:11:06Z")
I like back rubs, and sometimes they lead to other things. ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/49 "2008-01-20T03:16:13Z")
Mine doesn’t mean anything. It’s just a mnemonic I used to log in to sites. I don’t think I was planning on even posting at first. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/50 "2008-01-20T03:19:25Z")
I’m in Bangkok and a long-term resident of Thailand. My real name is not Sam, but I wanted an alliterative effect. There’s already a Bangkok Bob out there elsewhere, and I don’t like the sound of “Thailand Ted.” ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_Clock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Shot\_Clock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_Clock)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/51 "2008-01-20T03:21:12Z")
No mystery here. Serious basketball fan, with an attention span of roughly 24 seconds to boot. ---
**Author:** ![1010011010](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/ea666f/32.png) [@1010011010](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1010011010)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/52 "2008-01-20T03:27:38Z")
I am not a number. I am a free man. ---
**Author:** ![Br\_er\_Lapin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Br\_er\_Lapin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Br_er_Lapin)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/53 "2008-01-20T03:30:52Z")
It’s Gone’s nickname for [The Maxx](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maxx) . ---
**Author:** ![Ro\_Carter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7feea3/32.png) [@Ro\_Carter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ro_Carter)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/54 "2008-01-20T03:33:23Z")
The first part is one of the various nicknames I go by. I wanted to just sign up as Ro, but noooo must have more letters. So, I started digging around in my head for a “last name” as it were, and wound up with Carter, which I am fond of for several reasons, as it ties to names of characters I like on some of my favorite TV shows, with the added bonus of being the name of a road I used to live on. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/55 "2008-01-20T05:09:26Z")
Me? I lurked on the dope for \*years \*before registering. When the SW prequels came out, there was [a thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=317434&highlight=Darth+Sensitive) mocking some of the stupid Dark Side names. Something about you had “bad adjective” - “in” = Sith Name. So you have [In]Vader, [In]Sidious, and I’m [In]Sensitive. And I think the contrast involved with being a sensitive sith lord is good. I’m not a big Star Wars fan. But I dug the name. ---
**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/56 "2008-01-20T05:10:37Z")
My very first alias for a BBS back in the day was “incog”, short for incognito… Clever, huh? Well, it was not long before my brilliant idea was copied, and the name was seldom available, so I dropped the “in” and went by “cog.” Signing up for various crap led to the problem of having a number after my name, so I just jumped past all the short numbers, and went for 88… “cog88”. Before long, there were enough stupid cogs that I needed a 3 digit identifier, and I became cog888. Then some security obbsessed sites want CAPITALS and numb3rs in every damn thing, so I capitalized the consonants. So, thats my lame story of how I became “CoG888.” But, I have a more interesting story. So ignore all that dribble above, its all a lie. My name is a metaphor for the countless faceless avatars out here in cyberspace. We are all cogs in the great internet machine. I am cog #000888. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/57 "2008-01-20T05:49:47Z")
Part of a poem. “The moving finger writes and having writ moves on, nor all your piety and wit can call it back to cancel a single line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.” ---
**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 20, 2008, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/58 "2008-01-20T06:04:41Z")
[QUOTE=Silver Tyger Girl] [Yesssss?](http://www.purrsiathunder.net/thunderpedia/index.php?title=Slithe) I’m Silvercat or Silvercat17 everywhere else, but it was taken here. The misspelling is intentional and based on Thundercats. My online persona is a silver & blue anthro tiger with big furry wings. [/QUOTE] Spelled differently, and I’ve been “slythe” in gaming circles since 1975, ten years before _Thundercats_ first came out. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/59 "2008-01-20T06:05:17Z")
Mine is rather simple. In the days when I did graphic design for a living, **cmyk** denotes the color space of the 4-color printing process ( **c** yan, **m** agenta, **y** ellow, and blac **k** ). It also contains the initials of my real name, and just like the way it looks, and said a little about what I was into. Although, I’m now into broadcast and film vfx… so maybe I should change my name to **rgb.** ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/60 "2008-01-20T07:40:30Z")
[QUOTE=Br’er Lapin] It’s Gone’s nickname for [The Maxx](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maxx) . [/QUOTE] Holy freakin’ crap. That is the only comic book I ever read. My husband (then boyfriend) brought it to my house when I was like 19, and I fell in love with it. And I really liked the cartoon too. Not nearly as much as the book. Anyways, thank you for reminding me of it! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169.md?page=4)