# Favorite Doper names. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 22, 2015, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-doper-names/732190 "2015-09-22T08:21:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-doper-names/732190/101 "2015-09-25T18:18:55Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > **jz78817** , I’ve always thought it was the best collection of seemingly random letters and numbers. Seriously tho, **Ann Hedonia** is probably my fave. I wish I’d thought of it. ---
**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:** [September 25, 2015, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-doper-names/732190/102 "2015-09-25T18:20:18Z")
> [@brovolone](#): > > Czarcasm What? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-doper-names/732190/103 "2015-09-25T18:40:41Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Aaahhh. > > Many of these great names refer to things I have no clue about. That interests me equally. From [Harpo Speaks](https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3454/3368428791_45348f67f8.jpg). Always loved that. Glad everybody else does. ---
**Author:** ![scruffycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scruffycat/32/200_2.png) [@scruffycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scruffycat)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-doper-names/732190/104 "2015-09-25T20:29:40Z")
**Nzinga, Seated** **Spectre of Pithecanthropus** **Diogenes the Cynic** My top three, in that order. I quite like names where I’ve been intrigued enough to look up who they refer to on wikipedia or wherever. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-doper-names/732190/105 "2015-09-25T20:40:12Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > My faves were **Eats Crayons** and **Runs with Scissors** > > I believe they were related. 😃 I don’t believe they were, but I know **Eats\_Crayons** and **Sniffs Markers** were [a couple](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=253226&highlight=sniffs+markers) for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-doper-names/732190/106 "2015-09-25T23:06:44Z")
I always liked **Diogenes the Cynic,** although it’s nowhere near as obscure a joke as I’d like. Still, you have to respect a classical education. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-doper-names/732190/107 "2015-09-25T23:14:56Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Would that be [**Annie-Xmas**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php)? :smack: Yes, yes, it would. I also like **Anaamika** , just because it sounds cool. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-doper-names/732190/108 "2015-09-25T23:16:00Z")
> [@Master\_Wang-Ka](#): > > I always liked **Diogenes the Cynic,** although it’s nowhere near as obscure a joke as I’d like. Still, you have to respect a classical education. I tend to like Doper names that evoke an image of the poster in my mind. I always pictured \*\*Diogenes \*\*sitting in a barrel with his laptop. And, I’ll be damned, [here’s](http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/diogenes-greek-philosopher-technology-antiquity-notebook-cartoon-tone-30041700.jpg) a picture of him (in one of his better moods, clearly). ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-doper-names/732190/109 "2015-09-26T02:07:36Z")
Most of my faves have been mentioned already. But I miss seeing “I have Hippos in My Garden.” Both she and her name always gave me a smile. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-doper-names/732190/110 "2015-09-26T04:20:12Z")
Erm, would somebody mind explaining Enola Straight to me? (:smack: in advance) ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-doper-names/732190/111 "2015-09-26T04:25:18Z")
> [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > I’ve always liked **WOOKINPANUB** because until just recently, I though it was WORK IN A PUB. [Ah, the memories!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wo1-sI7MOQ) I just wish he had thrown a perfect Dylan cover in there. That would have been hilarious! > [@Green\_Bean](#): > > Erm, would somebody mind explaining Enola Straight to me? > > (:smack: in advance) The “Enola Gay” was the airplane from which the nuclear bomb “Little Boy” was dropped on Hiroshima. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-doper-names/732190/112 "2015-09-26T04:38:32Z")
:smack: indeed! I made the Enola Gay connection. I just couldn’t figure out what Enola Straight might have to do with it. :smack::smack::smack: ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-doper-names/732190/113 "2015-09-26T05:59:24Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Seriously tho, **Ann Hedonia** is probably my fave. I wish I’d thought of it. I might’ve had one Bloody Mary too many tonight, but 'splain please. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-doper-names/732190/114 "2015-09-26T06:04:10Z")
**iamthewalrus(:3= umop ap!sdn SurrenderDorothy** My inner 12 year old still remembers and likes **My Other ride is your mother**. ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-doper-names/732190/115 "2015-09-26T06:59:25Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > I might’ve had one Bloody Mary too many tonight, but 'splain please. Anhedonia means _without pleasure_. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-doper-names/732190/116 "2015-09-26T13:34:00Z")
Ah, the opposite of hedonism. Duh me. Thank you, **steatopygia**. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-doper-names/732190/117 "2015-09-26T13:38:41Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > To me, it sounds like LSD. I’m not familiar with the song. There seem to be a number of "Ellis Dee"s around in rock/folk music, and nearly all of them are winking allusions to the drug. (Not to mention that Lucy thing, which of course is about a child’s drawing.) But Jimmy Buffett’s early song “Ellis Dee” is a fairly strong rant about racial disharmony, with nary a drug reference to be seen. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-doper-names/732190/118 "2015-09-26T17:46:58Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > Ah, the opposite of hedonism. Duh me. Thank you, **steatopygia**. Anhedonia is also a feature of [chronic depression](http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=17900) and other mental conditions. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-doper-names/732190/119 "2015-09-26T23:22:46Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Anhedonia is also a feature of [chronic depression](http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=17900) and other mental conditions. Yep – Do you find that you no longer enjoy things that used to make you happy? is one of the psych/depression screening questions. And making you remember three things and repeat them back later - - Sun, Saturn, basketball. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-doper-names/732190/120 "2015-09-27T00:27:55Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Yep – Do you find that you no longer enjoy things that used to make you happy? is one of the psych/depression screening questions. > > And making you remember three things and repeat them back later - - Sun, Saturn, basketball. People who have recently (or sometimes not so recently) gotten sober from drugs and/or alchohol often experience periods of anhedonia, as their bodies and brains struggle to adjust to life without whatever the substance of addiction was. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-doper-names/732190.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-doper-names/732190.md?page=7)