# Explain your user name please! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 20, 2007, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239 "2007-08-20T13:46:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239/201 "2016-07-13T16:04:13Z")
India. 1979. I was on the fourth night of a two-day opium and sex orgy with a high-ranking Madagascaran general and a half-dozen east-Asian college co-eds/call girls. The general and a girl named Nomi went out for cigarettes. I was eating the last of a lemon cake, and trying to make conversation with one of the hookers, but her English was far from understandable in my opium-induced state. I told her “That’s enough, honey. No more talking.” She said, “Lendon vake?” I said, “Honey, let me eat my lemon cake cuz I want to go to bed.” “Lendon ved?” she said. But at that point, my last hit off the pipe did something to me, and her words began to echo off the walls. "Lendonvedenlendonvederlendervedendervedderlendenvedderlenderveddenderlendervedder… “Len…der…ved…der.” I was lost in the sound of her voice bouncing around my eardrums, and I hadn’t noticed the general had come back, and was standing over me. He was repeatedly asking me if I was okay. I finally realized he was talking to me, and I said “Yeah…yeah.” Then he asked, “But are you happy?” I looked at him, nodded my head slowly, and said, “No.” ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239/202 "2016-07-13T16:44:47Z")
I’ve posted this a couple of times before but not, apparently, in this thread. Google my name and you will see a character from a great archetypal old movie (and a different character in the awful remake) The Old Dark House. My name is taken from the original movie. Sir Roderick Femm is the very very old progenitor of the family Femm that appears in the film. One reason I liked this particular name/character is the gender ambiguity. Early on, Ernst Thesiger lisps his introduction “Good evening, I am Horathe Femm.” And the actor playing Sir Roderick, although listed as John Dudgeon, was actually a woman, Elspeth Dudgeon. And finally because an effeminate man might sometimes be referred to as a “fem.” I am not especially effeminate myself (at least I don’t think so) but I enjoyed all these deep subtleties derived from one of my favorite movies. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239/203 "2016-07-13T17:24:34Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > I started to read that as a limerick, so I made one: > > There once was a moderator named **Slythe**. > Who had too much Tullamore Dew one nigh…th. > He decided to hold > A naming contest so bold > And ended up with **Czarcasm** for life. Love it. You really should start a limerick thread involving usernames! ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239/204 "2016-07-14T21:33:25Z")
Title character from a comic book series I love. > **[Buck Godot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Godot)** > > Buck Godot is the title character in a science fiction/comedy comic book series collected in two volumes (Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire and Buck Godot: PSmIth) and assorted comic books, including the eight-issue "Gallimaufry" series, all written and drawn by their creator, Phil Foglio. > The first Buck Godot story appeared in issue #2 (summer 1982) of the anthology comic book Just Imagine, published by Just Imagine Graphix. More Buck Godot stories followed in issues #3 (1982) and #5 (spring 1983). ... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239.md?page=10)