# 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:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Wonderwall6129](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Wonderwall6129](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonderwall6129)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239/161 "2007-08-21T22:01:45Z")
I love the song “Wonderwall” by Oasis, and I always loved Marilyn Monroe, and I thought 6/1/29 was her birthday but it’s actually 6/1/26. Oops. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239/162 "2007-08-21T22:20:13Z")
[QUOTE=Wonderwall6129] I love the song “Wonderwall” by Oasis, and I always loved Marilyn Monroe, and I thought 6/1/29 was her birthday but it’s actually 6/1/26. Oops. [/QUOTE] You can have that fixed, if you want. Just e-mail **TubaDiva** and send her a goat and a chocolate squid pie. She’ll take care of you. ---
**Author:** ![netsplit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@netsplit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/netsplit)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239/163 "2007-08-22T00:50:39Z")
Well [netsplit](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netsplit)s are a major annoyance on irc so it was a good fit. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239/164 "2007-08-22T04:06:55Z")
My name is Katheryn, I like cats, I think I’m pretty great (haha, I don’t, it’s ironic), it all just came together! I started calling myself The Great Kat in high school, partly/mostly inspired by a kid’s book called “Otherwise Known as Shiela the Great” (sounds so lame now), but Katheryn (or rather Catherine) the Great was already taken. Later I found out there was a heavy metal guitarist called The Great Kat, but I think she’s obscure enough I don’t worry about most people getting us confused. I shortened it to Gr8Kat back in the old days of the web when most handles/email identities seemed to top out between 5 and 8 characters or so. ---
**Author:** ![Hbk4894](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e68b1a/32.png) [@Hbk4894](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hbk4894)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239/165 "2016-07-11T21:27:50Z")
My favourite wrestler then some numbers ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239/166 "2016-07-11T22:44:22Z")
Clothahump is the aged Turtle Wizard from Alan Dean Foster’s Spellsinger novel series. ---
**Author:** ![12mgdaily](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/f08c70/32.png) [@12mgdaily](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/12mgdaily)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239/167 "2016-07-11T22:51:13Z")
Now that I’m older, I take medication daily. I’ve combined that with the number 12 which is my favorite number. 12 has seemed a prominent number throughout my life. My address, number of letters in my city and state, birth-date of significant other, number of letters in my name, my name starting with the 12th letter in the alphabet, etc, etc. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239/168 "2016-07-12T03:01:28Z")
You might want to grab a bag of Cheetos and a two-liter Coke: **Burpo, the Wonder Mutt** was the nick-name I gave my first dog (picked out by my wife); a relentless eating machine and a notorious eructationer (-ist?). Ever seen a dog when it’s proud of itself? This booger would eat her meal (at light-speed), then search me out–wherever I was in the house–and BURRRRRP! in my face. Then saunter off for a nap, totally pleased with herself. The name came from: a) Superboy’s “Krypto, the Wonder Dog,” filtered through, b) Johnny Carson’s “Tea Time Movie” skits, where the cast listing always ended with something like “Squirt, the Wonder Skunk.” It’s all in lower case because when I signed up, I didn’t know caps were allowed in a name, and the same thing with the comma (SDMB is the first, and only, message board I’ve joined [I came to the Internet–kicking and screaming–rather late in the game]). I wrote a song for the real Burpo (gone four years, now); the music needs work but the lyrics, to me, are first-rate. Here’s the last four lines: There are many other noises that would tend to offend More than sounds from a collie’s gut. Yes, with luck I won’t be hearing from the opposite end Of Burpo, the Wonder Mutt. Woof! We now return you to your regularly scheduled program of dance music. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239/169 "2016-07-12T03:24:11Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Clothahump is the aged Turtle Wizard from Alan Dean Foster’s Spellsinger novel series. Even more aged now than the first time you posted this in this thread! 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 12, 2016, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239/170 "2016-07-12T04:46:33Z")
Bug Vomit was already taken. My story is not very interesting. I used to use my real name as my username. I decided to change it. I happened to be reading a collection of _Little Nemo in Slumberland_ comic strips at the time. ---
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239/171 "2016-07-12T05:47:17Z")
My username comes from numerology from [Kabalarians.com](http://Kabalarians.com) and the type of personality I initially wanted to have: [https://www.kabalarians.com/male/John.htm](https://www.kabalarians.com/male/John.htm) > [@](#): > > JOHN: > > …serious-minded, responsible, and stable. > > …diplomatic and tactful manner and possess a charming, easy-going nature which puts people at ease… [https://www.kabalarians.com/male/Clay.htm](https://www.kabalarians.com/male/Clay.htm) > [@](#): > > CLAY: > > …creative, versatile, and imaginative… > > … independence, positivity and the urge for action… I used to think it was quite accurate for the names I tried. It was quite accurate about my actual name: > [@](#): > > …You are mathematically adept… [I did up to 3rd year University maths] > > …Because of its matter-of-fact influence, this name limits, to some degree, your ability to be flexible and spontaneous… [I used to be quite monotone and conservative] > > …Friends and associates may detect a lack of feeling and sympathy in their relationship with you. [my dad told me that I should ask my workmate how they’re going] > > …You express your appreciation for others by what you do for them rather than by what you say. [I’d give girls presents, etc] Though since I came across that numerology site I’ve been put in the mental hospital a few times. i.e. my personality has changed a bit. Actually my username isn’t John or Clay it is JohnClay: [https://www.kabalarians.com/Male/JohnClay.htm](https://www.kabalarians.com/Male/JohnClay.htm) > [@](#): > > …clever, quick, analytical mind, but you suffer with a great deal of self-consciousness, lack of confidence, and much aloneness because of misunderstandings… [me: self-conscious?] > > …It is far easier for you to express your deeper thoughts and feelings through writing than verbally… [yeah I don’t say this type of stuff verbally really] > > …You crave affection but seldom find anyone who understands your nature… Well I think some of it fits… ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239/172 "2016-07-12T14:53:02Z")
“Lumpy” is actually short for Lumpenprole, my handle from all the way back to my BBS days in the 1990s. From the Marxist term “lumpenproletariat”, which my dictionary article defined as “marginal and unemployable workers of debased and irregular habits, including paupers, beggars and thieves”. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239/173 "2016-07-12T15:00:16Z")
I wanted **Tripler** to think I stole it. TriPolar I’m not Tripler ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239/174 "2016-07-12T15:07:15Z")
I’m named for a fictional 12th century monk, who suffers from Jessica Fletcher’s disease. Whenever he’s around, people conveniently drop dead at his feet, so that he can investigate their murder. And, if you are a friend or relative, be prepared to be the main suspect until he clears you. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239/175 "2016-07-12T15:19:02Z")
Hm. This is an old thread! Posts by the late\*\* norinew\*\* ☹ , **Asimovian** not yet married to **jsgoddess** , all sorts of history… Anyway, my name’s Maggie, and the rest is me playing around with words. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239/176 "2016-07-12T15:40:42Z")
My real name is Paula. 40 years ago my learning-to-talk nephew pronounced it Peedin and Peedin is my family nickname. Back in the olden days it was not cool to use your real name on BBS, so Peedin it was. And is. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239/177 "2016-07-12T15:50:39Z")
> [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#): > > Hm. This is an old thread! Posts by the late\*\* norinew\*\* ☹ , **Asimovian** not yet married to **jsgoddess** , all sorts of history… I had the same reaction to seeing **norinew** ’s post in here. Bah. On the plus side, I always forget how to pronounce **koeeoaddi** , so the zombification has been useful to me for that alone. ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239/178 "2016-07-12T16:20:30Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > This is slightly embarrassing. > > Sometime around high school my best friend and I started saying, ‘‘Olive You’’ to each other instead of ‘‘I love you,’’ because we’re very silly. > > This eventually got shortened to ‘‘Olives’’ and became my trademark among my little circle of friends. (At this point even my mother in law signs her e-mails and greeting cards this way.) > > Cut to freshman year of college when I had to pick out an AIM name. She happened to be there setting up the account (I was putting away laundry or something) and she started screwing around with variations of ‘‘olives.’’ Then she added ‘‘march4th’’ which is my birthday, and, being silly, we noticed the astonishing way the name brought to mind olives marching forth, in a regimented formation of looooove. > > Oh, and for what it’s worth, I detest olives. This post makes some zombie threads extremely funny. My name: Edward = Iron Maiden’s un-dead mascot Beard = Usually associated with a closeted gay person who had a person of the opposite sex appear with them in public. However, it wasn’t til I heard the term on the X-Files where I believe Skinner was telling Mulder that someone was an alien’s beard that I grabbed it. So my name is a beard for the un-dead. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239/179 "2016-07-12T16:40:18Z")
Circa 2004, I was using in most places (not here) the username Nekogami - catgod - because I like cats and am interested in Japanese culture. But…there’s, like, 6 billion Nekogami out there, so I eventually hit somewhere where someone else beat me to it… So, I changed it around to Kamino Neko, which a) was less common (not quite unique, but uncommon), and b) is a real name. The Japanese spelling/intended meaning of the name has changed, over the years. Originally it was 神の猫 (Kami no Neko - roughly God’s Cat), but I’ve since drifted to 神野 (one of the real names that can be read as Kamino, roughly meaning ‘god field’). I recently discovered there was an artist named 神野猫, but she pronounces it as Jinno, so there’s no chance of us being confused in roman letters, anyway. \>\_\> ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239/180 "2016-07-12T17:13:39Z")
Well, since this zombie has jumped back to life… I usually use the same name on a variety of boards (the first syllable of my last name), but for some reason I decided to make it something different here. I read a fair amount of SF, and Harry Harrison’s tales of the galaxy’s premier thief just came to mind. > **[The Stainless Steel Rat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)** > > James Bolivar diGriz, alias "Slippery Jim" and "The Stainless Steel Rat", is a fictional character and a series of comic science fiction novels written by Harry Harrison. > James Bolivar diGriz goes by many aliases, including "Slippery Jim" and "The Stainless Steel Rat". He is a futuristic con man, thief, and all-round rascal. He is charming and quick-witted. He is also a master of disguise and martial arts, an accomplished bank robber, a criminal mastermind, an expert on breaking and entering, an... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name-please/416239.md?page=10)