# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/141 "2008-02-12T18:22:35Z")
I got mine from **Kel Varnsen - Latex Division** in [this hilarious thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=289696&highlight=kill+shoot+situation) (post 13). ---
**Author:** ![Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tool_of_the_Conspiracy)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/142 "2008-02-12T18:59:09Z")
[QUOTE=Illuminatiprimus] I’m one of the leaders of the Illuminati who secretly rule the world from behind the scenes, carefully and insidiously pulling strings and slowly but surely bringing forth the New World Order. [/QUOTE] Things are going great over here, boss. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/143 "2008-02-12T20:24:29Z")
I stole my name from the song ‘2033’ by ‘La Bottine Souriante’, from the album 'Y a ben du changement. In the song, it means the (Gov’t) Minister from Beyond. It appealed to my sense of the surreal… ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/144 "2008-02-12T20:28:44Z")
I fart blood a lot ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/145 "2008-02-12T20:34:03Z")
Booyah! ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/146 "2008-02-12T20:55:18Z")
[QUOTE=Tool of the Conspiracy] Things are going great over here, boss. [/QUOTE] Good to hear - obviously my opposite in charge of America is doing their part well. 😛 And **Brujaja** - there’s a poster on another site I use who is called Bruja. It’s not you by any chance is it? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Pithy\_Moniker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@Pithy\_Moniker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pithy_Moniker)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/147 "2008-02-12T21:01:14Z")
Mine is fairly self explanatory but the story behind it is slightly interesting. I signed up for Xbox Live with this name a few months before joining the boards here. Needless to say, it didn’t go over so well with the kiddies on Xbox Live. I had a few people asking me what it meant and if it was Latin. Then there were the people that thought it said ‘Pity Monkey’. I paid to have it changed. As expected, it’s been much more well received here on the Dope. ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/148 "2008-02-12T21:35:20Z")
Back in high school, a friend of mine was looking for a live band to play at Prom. Feppytweed was the name of one of them. I liked the sound of it, so…here it is! ---
**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:** [February 13, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/149 "2008-02-13T01:04:34Z")
[QUOTE=Don’t fight the hypothetical] I got mine from **Kel Varnsen - Latex Division** in [this hilarious thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=289696&highlight=kill+shoot+situation) (post 13). [/QUOTE] Damn, I love that thread. I think another good name from that thread would have been “the child still suffers”. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/150 "2008-02-13T09:48:54Z")
[QUOTE=lobstermobster] I’ve explained this once I believe but I’ll go again. There was this strange punk group called Atom and his Package from Philadelphia that had very brief and very minor success with the song “Punk Rock Academy” [/QUOTE] _Happy birthday Ralph! I love you. Even though you are fucking disgusting!_ (I think those are the same guys at least.) ---
**Author:** ![rikc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c57346/32.png) [@rikc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rikc)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/151 "2008-02-13T11:29:12Z")
I am named Rick, but so are lots of other people. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/152 "2008-02-13T12:19:32Z")
I was reading H. P. Lovecraft’s work at the time and I wanted a name that was nicely inconspicuous\*, on the theory that people would judge me by my words instead of my handle. So I picked the name from August Derleth, Lovecraft’s main collaborator. I didn’t know there would be so many Lovecraft fans here and I certainly didn’t know people would think Derleth is a feminine name. (I’m a man, by the way.) \*(Yes, I’m also a “Hitchhiker” fan.) ---
**Author:** ![seosamh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/153 "2008-02-13T12:58:23Z")
Mine is the of my “real” first name, Joseph, in Irish. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/154 "2008-02-13T16:31:59Z")
My college mascot was the Orediggers my number on the football team was 77. yep creative jock type over here. By the way if you look up the team there is a poster from our confrence championship in '04 that has a great shot of my butt in spandex. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/155 "2008-02-13T17:15:24Z")
I discovered, to my chagrin, that if you are a small, underweight female sooner or later one of those drunken hammerheads you’re hanging with at the bar will get to thinking; “She’s not very big, betcha I could lift her over my head, yeah, it’ll be fun, watch!” Turns out, if you’re tiny, lots of people thinks it’s okay to put their hands on you, (a couple of drinks brings it out in lots of people!), they think it will be fun, like you’re a child or something. So I learned the one weapon the God’s had given me to defend myself from such advances was exceedingly pointy and sharp elbows. I became very adept at fending off would be ‘handlers’, even though they be my friends. I became some what renowned for this, often hearing; “Watch the elbows, watch the elbows!” When I went on line I wanted something unrelated to my actual name and non gender specific. Now, I like it very much and think if very appropriate! ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/156 "2008-02-13T17:50:47Z")
I had lurked for a while prior to joining this board, and decided to come up with a handle to reflect the “fight ignorance” philosophy here, as well as my redneck heritage. I knew a dude who would always say “No doubt!” when somebody would _testify_. So this name is a pun on that, and suggests that I’ve reached the limit of my thinking, which happens a lot. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/157 "2008-02-13T18:32:12Z")
[QUOTE=Randy Seltzer] Mine is an anagram of my actual name. [/QUOTE] Andy Strelzer, is that you???!! :eek: (I don’t really know you) Anyway, mine is the name of a band I was in from about 2001-2004. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/158 "2008-02-13T18:36:28Z")
It means “lawyer” in Czech (also Russian and Croatian, I think, and maybe a few other Slavic languages). “Prav” is the root word for truth, like old Commie newspaper Pravda, and the suffix -nik is a little like the English -er, so a literal translation would be something like “truther.” ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/159 "2008-02-13T18:46:44Z")
[QUOTE=pravnik] It means “lawyer” in Czech (also Russian and Croatian, I think, and maybe a few other Slavic languages). “Prav” is the root word for truth, like old Commie newspaper Pravda, and the suffix -nik is a little like the English -er, so a literal translation would be something like “truther.” [/QUOTE] [So I’ve heard.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9393946&postcount=109)😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169/160 "2008-02-13T19:44:04Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] I was not feeling clever when I signed up, so I went to the book shelf, pulled a book off of it at random and took the title character’s name. That book was _The Man Who Never Missed_ by Steve Perry. [/QUOTE] This is one of the 3,000+ books that, added to my job as an accountant, and my word-lover’s attraction to a word with 3 consecutive double letters, resulted in my user name. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-dopername/434169.md?page=9)