# Explain your username! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 23, 2003, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-username/150518 "2003-01-23T19:42:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![straykat23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@straykat23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straykat23)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-username/150518/101 "2003-01-25T07:21:50Z")
My original username was patterned after my uncle’s - Petman62 (lives in Petaluma, CA, male, aged 62). I chose SacWoman (I live in Sacramento and am female). Immediately I got messages from the netherworld; for example, “Are you a female with balls?” I panicked and changed my username immediatley: used the title of a book I was reading, “Stray Kat,” by a local author. AOL wouldn’t allow me that name (no, there wasn’t a StrayKat listed on AOL) so I just added numbers until I came up with ‘23.’ I use the same username and password for everything because it’s too cumbersome remembering all the names/passwords one needs for internet use. Know this isn’t a wise thing to do, but it’s a convenient method. So far, no problems. ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-username/150518/102 "2003-01-25T07:32:38Z")
DPJ is an incredibly obscure reference to “The Princess Bride,” which features IMO the all-time finest sword fight in movie history between the Dread Pirate Roberts and Inigo Montoya. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-username/150518/103 "2003-01-25T08:12:07Z")
Mine’s a rather unoriginal abbreviation of my name. If it weren’t so discouraged, I’d change it. ---
**Author:** ![II\_Gyan\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@II\_Gyan\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/II_Gyan_II)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-username/150518/104 "2003-01-25T10:18:31Z")
My first name and a number. Kinda pissed that the user ‘Gyan’ has never used it. Most probably, its just me having registered it a few months back and forgotten the password. Oh, well. ---
**Author:** ![acrossthesea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@acrossthesea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/acrossthesea)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-username/150518/105 "2003-01-25T15:12:55Z")
Across The Sea is a Weezer song from their 2nd album Pinkerton. The song is about how the guy loves a girl who’s in Japan, and in order to be with her he has to move there. It’s my life in reverse: the guy I loved was sent to Japan so in order to be with him I moved here too. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-username/150518/106 "2003-01-25T16:04:56Z")
I have no clue, so **NoClue** I have a tool, so **Boy** All together, **NoClueBoy** ---
**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-username/150518/107 "2003-01-25T17:02:48Z")
A good friend of mine has a stuffed monkey made of socks and called me her little sock monkey. =) ---
**Author:** ![raisinbread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8491ac/32.png) [@raisinbread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raisinbread)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-username/150518/108 "2003-01-25T17:39:02Z")
I have a long standing story among friends regarding raisins, obese black felines and the combination thereof that takes place in a merry juniper patch with ladybugs who have an inclination for whispering off color stories to folks making them blush a deep red. And I figured what could be more inoccuous than raisinbread? ---
**Author:** ![FranticMad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c68b51/32.png) [@FranticMad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FranticMad)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-username/150518/109 "2003-01-25T19:44:42Z")
From a line in a sonnet ---
**Author:** ![big\_alex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e56c9b/32.png) [@big\_alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/big_alex)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-username/150518/110 "2003-01-25T21:14:24Z")
I am small. I am Alex Funny isn’t it? A nickname from school, would have been just Al, but that was taken. ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-username/150518/111 "2003-01-25T22:33:29Z")
I work with these —\> [C. brachyrhynchos](http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/amcr1.jpg) _Such a SweetBaboo! Whatta-widdie-sweet-face!_ Pronounced brack-ee-rink-os. Not rhinoceros. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-username/150518/112 "2003-01-25T23:14:40Z")
Errr…the sig says it all, really. Oh, it’s Latin. ---
**Author:** ![light\_strand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a6a055/32.png) [@light\_strand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/light_strand)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-username/150518/113 "2003-01-25T23:25:57Z")
Mine is from the Meselson and Stahl [experiment](http://www.emunix.emich.edu/~rwinning/genetics/replic.htm) which showed the semiconservative nature of DNA replication. brach, he’s great! I want one. Can you really teach them to talk? ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-username/150518/114 "2003-01-25T23:36:17Z")
My mother was born and raised in Scotland, as was my father’s mother. (Dad’s dad was born and raised in Finland, but he lost out in the SDMB name game.) My name is Cheri. Scotti (Scottish) and cher (Cheri). Boring but true. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-username/150518/115 "2003-01-25T23:58:05Z")
I picked this name out for absolutely no reason, and it has no meaning whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-username/150518/116 "2003-01-26T00:07:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lel \* > \*\*I picked this name out for absolutely no reason, and it has no meaning whatsoever. \*\* Per [dictionary.com](http://dictionary.reference.com/): LEL - acronym for Lower Explosive Limit. I’d have gone with that 😃 ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-username/150518/117 "2003-01-26T01:14:58Z")
Heh, **light strand** , actually crows and magpies will talk (but I don’t think they pick it up as easily as parrots do). ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-username/150518/118 "2003-01-26T03:24:47Z")
It’s a reflection. I suppose I could have been Reflection noitcelfeR. It doesn’t look as nice as my present name, though. I wish I could make the letters in egamI rorriM backwards, but my knowledge of html is basically limited to bold and italics. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-username/150518/119 "2003-01-26T06:16:20Z")
Mine is from the title of a 35 year old song and means absolutely nothing (as far as I know). I’m frightfully old. ---
**Author:** ![bobblehead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@bobblehead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobblehead)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-your-username/150518/120 "2003-01-26T09:29:54Z")
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