# Explain your user name **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 3, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name/351088 "2006-04-03T16:03:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![New\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@New\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/New_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name/351088/1 "2006-04-03T16:03:02Z")
Why did you choose your user name? I chose New Girl because that’s what my friends and everyone else have called me for two years since I moved here. I think I can explain some other people’s, like Inigo Montoya and Czarcasm, but some of them have me truly at a loss. Especially you, Even Sven. So 'fess up. ---
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name/351088/2 "2006-04-03T16:06:18Z")
Mine is a reference to the book _Being There_ by Jerzy Kocinski. It was made into a decent movie, too. Chance the Gardener accomplishes great things but doesn’t seem to be entirely aware of them. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name/351088/3 "2006-04-03T16:08:23Z")
This topic [has been done](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=327865). ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name/351088/4 "2006-04-03T16:15:46Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > This topic [has been done](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=327865). That’s like saying a zit thread has been done before. We can always use another username thread. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name/351088/5 "2006-04-03T16:18:14Z")
I’m from Navarra, was away from home. The double r tends to cause asthma attacks in foreigners trying to pronounce it (and earaches to me), so I chopped it off. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name/351088/6 "2006-04-03T16:19:12Z")
My username used to be Sir Blah. Now it’s Not. ---
**Author:** ![davenportavenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@davenportavenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davenportavenger)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name/351088/7 "2006-04-03T16:22:29Z")
It’s a reference to the whole idea of being an “armchair revolutionary,” i.e. someone with beliefs and views who doesn’t really do anything pro-active to accomplish anything. Which, you know, is basically right. Although that’s also true for like 99% of the political commentators on the Internet. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name/351088/8 "2006-04-03T16:24:00Z")
I am very large, and almost always wear predominantly yellow clothes. Also, I smell like diesel exhaust. And I beep when I back up. And I wear black shoes, 6 of them at a time. Oh, man I’m killing me here!!! ---
**Author:** ![Wygtya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@Wygtya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wygtya)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name/351088/9 "2006-04-03T16:32:06Z")
Wherever You Go, There You Are. While it is a line from Buckaroo Bonzai, it’s something I keep finding to be true. Every time I think I am experiencing Big Life Changes, I realize that I am still me with my failings and strengths and weirdnesses. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name/351088/10 "2006-04-03T16:34:18Z")
**Mr Bus Guy’s** responses are killing me, too. \*\*Anaamika \*\* means the Girl With No Name. I thought it was appropriate for a message board. Since I’ve been using it, I’ve found an unexpected side effect. It’s unusual enough to stand out a little, but common enough that a Google search doesn’t bring up me anywhere near the first five pages. Maybe more, but I stopped searching. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name/351088/11 "2006-04-03T16:37:22Z")
My story from a previous thread: > [@Happy Lendervedder](#): > > 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:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name/351088/12 "2006-04-03T16:40:44Z")
_Colibri_ is Spanish for hummingbird. I did my thesis work on hummingbirds in Panama. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name/351088/13 "2006-04-03T16:53:46Z")
Because **instead** sounds plumb ridiculous. Actually, **lieu** is just a residual from another board. You could change them at will there and I was always playing around with different ones but got comments on **in lieu of read** which was shortened to **lieu** and mindlessly chose it for use here, never knowing I’d be sticking around. Now, after several years, it seems kinda silly to change so I’m stuck with it. I wish it meant something deep but actually I’m significantly shallower than most people realize. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name/351088/14 "2006-04-03T16:53:49Z")
Say, you ought to ask some of the comic book thread Dopers what my name means. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name/351088/15 "2006-04-03T17:00:23Z")
Mine is just a play on my actual name, and has nothing to do with actually being new to the boards (well, I was at one time. I don’t think I’d actually be considered new any longer). And the Mc reflects my Irish heritage. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name/351088/16 "2006-04-03T17:13:07Z")
_sigh_ I hate my username. I was only planning on sticking around for my freebie period, so I thought it wouldn’t matter. I picked it because I was arguing with the computer over UserNames. You know how it goes: username: Rhiannon (my username just about everywhere else) Computer: No. Someone else has that. You can’t have it, you unimaginative moron. username: Rhiannon2 Computer: No. Someone else has that. You can’t have it, you unimaginative moron. username: Rhiannon 87583756 Computer: No. Someone else has that. You can’t have it, you unimaginative moron. username: Rhianon Computer: No. Someone else has that. You can’t have it, you unimaginative moron. username: Rianon Computer: No. Someone else has that. You can’t have it, you unimaginative moron. username:Rhia Computer: No. Someone else has that. You can’t have it, you unimaginative moron. username:Dammit! Computer: No. Someone else has that. You can’t have it, you unimaginative moron. username:Come on, give me a damn name already Computer: No. Someone else has that. You can’t have it, you unimaginative moron. username: Why Not? And here we are. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name/351088/17 "2006-04-03T17:21:06Z")
When Radiohead’s **OK Computer** came out, I used to listen to the CD several times a week. The first song on the album, _Airbag_, always mesmerized me. I could never understand what Thom Yorke was saying after “In the next world war…”. I finally looked up the lyrics, and the term stayed with me in my head for years. I like it because its alliterative (JJ), symmetric (10 letters in each word, including one double letter in each) and finally, the word _juggernaut_ comes from my Indian and Hindu heritage. I’ve basically taken ownership of the song (figuratively, of course). On other websites, I’m known as “Airbag” and “Interstellarburst” (also from the song). ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name/351088/18 "2006-04-03T17:21:47Z")
Crotalus is the name of the genus which includes most rattlesnakes. I’ve always liked rattlesnakes. ---
**Author:** ![serious\_lark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@serious\_lark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/serious_lark)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name/351088/19 "2006-04-03T17:28:24Z")
I’m an (apparently) very serious person who willl actually admit to singing in public. Also, I liked the fact that my user name is somewhat oxymoronic. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name/351088/20 "2006-04-03T18:41:09Z")
My name is the name of the starship in the sf novel I have written ( and have been finishing for way too long.) It has nothing to do with Star Trek. The ship got its name just after ST:TOS went off the air. I said way too long. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-user-name/351088.md?page=2)