My husband calls me this all the time…
“Ya wanna make me a sandwich, too, while you’re at it?”
“Ya wanna bring me a glass of milk?”
“Ya wanna help me with this?”
etc., etc.
My response is always the same: “My name’s not YaWanna.”
I gave up when I was trying to think of a clever username, and went with what I was already used to answering to.
Whenever I have seen your username, I have a Jabba the Hut’s lackie voice in my head go, “YaWannaWonga!” Momentarily, it is louder than all the other voices and is then overwhelmed…
Jesus. Someone I admire very much.
You *have * seen The Wizard of Oz, right?
As much sense as this makes, I had always hoped you were a rap fan who just happened to like ducks.
Well, let’s see.
I’m fat.
I’m bald.
I’m a guy.
That about sums it up.
I didn’t put much thought into my original name (June) when I first registered, and once I started realizing that other Dopers were assuming I was female, I had Lynn change it for me.
Dennis is Cordelia’s friendly ghost from the TV show Angel, and Gunn would sometime refer to him as “Phantom Dennis”, I’m assuming because it rhymes with “Phantom Menace”.
:eek: you mean there’s a Wizard of Oz MOVIE???
Its almost easter, and I absolutely love stuffed bunnies. After the easter sales, there will be left
the only bunny.
Probably be boring as hell but…
Mine is basically my name. My great grandfather was from Athens (Greece) who imigrated to Mexico when he was 12 (he wanted to come to the US but couldn’t get in…Mexico was where he jumped ship and settled down). So, my family name is Xenophon (it was a tradition in my great grandfathers family that each first born son be named Xenophon, going back gods know how long…thus the X for me as I was first born son). In addition, my great grandmothers father was Xavior (and I got both names, so I guess I’d REALLY be XXT 
). The T is for Tomas (Thomas in english).
Thus XT is Me…or, I am XT. 
Interestingly enough I have some cousins in the States who are ALSO XT’s…though their branch of the family imigrated to the US a generation before my own did.
-XT
Johanna actually is my name in real life. If you see me at a Dopefest, I can tell you my Doper name and my real name in one go, instead of the usual two-stage process. Yes, I’m a Bob Dylan fan, but no less a Joan Baez fan, and I agree with the conventional theory that “Johanna” refers to Baez (it’s a Latin form of Joan, but not the original one, which was Joanna; the -h- got added in medieval Latin), not Johanna van Gogh, for Piet’s sake. With this name I’m sometimes mistaken for a Dutch, Finnish, German, or Swedish woman, but actually I’m Irish-Sicilian.
I thought this would be a great thread to post my first message: In August I will be attending graduate school (seminary actually) in Chicago so naturally I am absolutely obessed with all things Chicago. So Mrs. O’Malley’s Cow just seemed natural.
I also thought about “shoeless in wv” as I am now in West Virginia or "Back it up, you idiot " which would be “affectionately” dedicated to all those people whom I have run into who believe things but can’t tell me why they believe them or what led to that belief which is one of my pet peeves.
But I want this to be a positive thing so I decided to give me a chicago type name. Besides, apparently Mrs. O’Malley’s cow didn’t start the Chicago Fire.
I have been lurking for years now and figured it would be a good time to join. You guys make me laugh too much!
Phase42 has been my Internet identity since '96. It started out as a chat room handle. The “Phase” part came from the title of a Star Trek: TNG episode I had recently watched and enjoyed, “The Next Phase”.
Do I really need to explain the “42”? 
Actually, when I was using the name as my chat room handle, I had to explain repeatedly that no, it’s not my age. And it still won’t be my age for two more years.
Tamryne was a made up name when I was looking for the perfect name for a character on an MMORPG I was RPing. I took my friends name Taryn and expanded on it.
Later I found out that Tamryne was a kabbalistic name meaning orderly, clean, perfect, organized, exc… basically me when Im in the throes of an OCD phase. Just sounded kinda apt.
When the original Windows with file manager came out, a friend of mine edited the source code so it read file mangler. I thought that it was appropriate so I had him edit mine to read windows exploder instead of explorer. He messed it up and it said Xploder so I kept that as a user name.
I was going through an…anime phase.
I am no longer as enthralled by saucer eyed girls and extra-terrestial cephalopods, and thought about changing to something more mature, but decided against it for nostalgia’s sake.
Bearflag = California state flag
70 = Year of birth
WhyNot
same thing
I like to play with battleships in the bath.
“Boom!” I go. [battleship vanishes beneath the foam to bloodcurdling cries]
Meantime safe (hah!) on dry land, the artillery crouches behind the soap and shampoo, bombarding the harbour.
“Wheee - eeeee, splash!”
or
I was on a Russian history kick for a while.
or
I always name my on-line personae after major port cities and Archangel was taken. Also Archangel has religious references I’m not happy with.
or
It is an oblique reference to my real name, which I’m not telling btw.
or
[dons conspiracy robe, cap and scarlett codpiece] It is kind of an anagram of Vespasiano, by which I signal my presence to The Illuminati … or something. Given the heat coming my way, this one isn’t entirely implausible lately.
or
A bit of (a) and a bit of (b) etc above. I can’t rightly say, probably the most boring answer is correct.
When I was a kindergartner in early 1970s Iowa, our school had an amiable young farmboy as custodian. Doug C. had lost his left hand in Vietnam. Despite his being a very nice guy, I developed a phobia towards him, probably because he kept a workroom in the (very dark) basement, and I began avoiding him wherever I thought he might be found.
It is to show “no hard feelings” toward Doug C., as well as in tribute to one of my favorite cartoonists, that I adopted the handle Beware of Doug.
