# Free usernames! First come, first served! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 31, 2011, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-usernames-first-come-first-served/590881 "2011-07-31T01:47:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-usernames-first-come-first-served/590881/61 "2011-08-04T06:32:36Z")
> [@Precambrianmollusc](#): > > From that website > > Hugh and Mia Donnagria > > would be perfect for someone who spent a lot of time in GD. > > Or the pit. > > Well anywhere here really. > > Incidentally I have never understood > Head of Working Mother Support Group Erasmus B. Dragon > > just can’t parse it or I am missing something crucial.( a clue etc) WAG: Head of Working Mother Support Group: _**“‘Er [Her] Ass Must Be Draggin’”?**_ ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-usernames-first-come-first-served/590881/62 "2011-08-04T06:49:32Z")
**up+dn** (I love ambigrams, and I thought of this years ago when l was waiting for an elevator at some hotel. The two buttons, with “down” truncated as such, just struck me as the the most mundane yet coolest thing ever: Opposites, _as opposites._ I just never knew what to do with that revelation. I pointed it out to my friend some while later… he looked at me like I was an alien.) . ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-usernames-first-come-first-served/590881/63 "2011-08-04T18:25:42Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > **up+dn** > > (I love ambigrams, and I thought of this years ago when l was waiting for an elevator at some hotel. The two buttons, with “down” truncated as such, just struck me as the the most mundane yet coolest thing ever: Opposites, _as opposites._ I just never knew what to do with that revelation. I pointed it out to my friend some while later… he looked at me like I was an alien.) > > . You may be an alien, but that is cool. up/dn works too. mmm ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-usernames-first-come-first-served/590881/64 "2011-08-05T00:20:00Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > You may be an alien, but that is cool. > > up/dn works too. > mmm Funny… I almost typeset it that way, but in my head, I hear it as “up and down”, then I realized the plus sign is a nice replacement for the asymmetrical ampersand. ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-usernames-first-come-first-served/590881/65 "2011-08-10T12:49:27Z")
If I were to change mine, I would go the _Seinfeld_ route and make something pretentious, like **Dr. Van Nostrand** or something. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-usernames-first-come-first-served/590881/66 "2011-08-10T12:54:46Z")
My second choice when I registered was **The Hostile Amishman**. ETA: Old thread on potential [usernames](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=290572). ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-usernames-first-come-first-served/590881/67 "2011-08-10T12:56:53Z")
My contributions to [that other thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=619758): > [@](#): > > \*\*The Raging Hadron \*\*or \*\*Logical Phallusy \*\* > > **That thing right there** > > **…a little more to the left** > > **Ooo Shiny!** > > **Snarky McIronypants** > > \*\*Steve \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-usernames-first-come-first-served/590881/68 "2011-08-10T13:16:59Z")
I like **The Raging Hadron**. Another option: **Padron My Hadron**. mmm ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-usernames-first-come-first-served/590881/69 "2011-08-10T13:27:43Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > Super ghoti Al? Kinda like that one. It’d make more sense without the spaces Superghotial But, then it looks more like gibberish. I wonder if anyone would get it? In other username news, I saw yours on a license plate, **cmyk** I thought for sure I was following a doper on the interstate, since the chances of a vanity plate with 4 random letters in the same order as a doper username has to be more than coincidence. Then, I found that the letters actually are not random. Musta been following a printer. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2011, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-usernames-first-come-first-served/590881/70 "2011-08-10T14:29:49Z")
**Peppermint Pâté**. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2011, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-usernames-first-come-first-served/590881/71 "2011-08-10T14:31:17Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > My contributions to [that other thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=619758): Sorry-didn’t know I had started a redundant thread. It’s closed now. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-usernames-first-come-first-served/590881/72 "2011-08-10T14:36:44Z")
**Why We Can’t Have Nice Things** ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-usernames-first-come-first-served/590881/73 "2011-08-10T14:55:17Z")
We once had a new user calling himself **Hottentot Potentate**. Unfortunately, some called out the first word as racist (which was news to me), otherwise I’d consider that clever. I’m still partial to my old name, **Doghouse Reilly**. I wish I could go back to it sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-usernames-first-come-first-served/590881/74 "2011-08-10T16:35:16Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > We once had a new user calling himself **Hottentot Potentate**. Unfortunately, some called out the first word as racist (which was news to me), otherwise I’d consider that clever. It was **Venus Hottentot** (a reference to [Sarah Baartman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Baartman)), and it was **Nzinga, Seated** ’s first user name. She chose it to show her love for beautiful big black things, but “Hottentot” is now considered an offensive term for the Khoisan people, and we have other posters who’d had it thrown at them as a term of abuse before, so they didn’t think it was quite as harmless. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-usernames-first-come-first-served/590881/75 "2011-08-10T17:00:48Z")
> [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](#): > > It was **Venus Hottentot** (a reference to [Sarah Baartman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Baartman)), and it was **Nzinga, Seated** ’s first user name. She chose it to show her love for beautiful big black things, but “Hottentot” is now considered an offensive term for the Khoisan people, and we have other posters who’d had it thrown at them as a term of abuse before, so they didn’t think it was quite as harmless. I didn’t know that. But there _was_ a [poster](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) using the name I mentioned: apparently banned after just three posts. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-usernames-first-come-first-served/590881/76 "2011-08-10T17:19:54Z")
**palindromemordnilap**. [No, not a minion of a certain former Alaskan governor] ---
**Author:** ![Mewl\_Dear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Mewl\_Dear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mewl_Dear)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-usernames-first-come-first-served/590881/77 "2011-08-10T17:29:02Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > **Cunning Linguist** > > **Cunning Runt** **Cunning Stunts** ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-usernames-first-come-first-served/590881/78 "2011-08-10T21:42:44Z")
[Pink Fairy Armadillo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pink_fairy_armadillo_cropped.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-usernames-first-come-first-served/590881/79 "2011-08-29T23:46:29Z")
**Doctor Whom** ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-usernames-first-come-first-served/590881/80 "2011-08-29T23:48:51Z")
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