# Fuck! My SDMB name should've been... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 13, 2006, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-my-sdmb-name-shouldve-been/364282 "2006-07-13T02:52:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-my-sdmb-name-shouldve-been/364282/1 "2006-07-13T02:52:46Z")
**Middleton Stoney.** **Hippy Hollow** is an inside joke; anyone from my hometown will get it. I like it, it’s pretty good, gender-, class-, and race-neutral, which is how I wanted my online persona to play out. But today I was watching an old XTC documentary when they were recording _Black Sea_ in Chipping Norton, near where I used to live in Oxfordshire. Chipping Norton’s got a little size to it, I imagine most UK Dopers have heard of it. Middleton Stoney was a little village just outside of RAF Upper Heyford which we traveled through every day to school. Yep, I should have been **Middleton Stoney.** Maybe I will change it… Anyway, did you discover a _better_ SDMB username after you’d come up with your brilliant _nom de guerre?_ ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-my-sdmb-name-shouldve-been/364282/2 "2006-07-13T03:25:19Z")
I kind of wish I had used **Anne Shirley** , my favorite literary character. ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-my-sdmb-name-shouldve-been/364282/3 "2006-07-13T03:26:22Z")
No, but I did have to change the spelling of mine. I started out with “Snakescatlady”, which caused some Dopers to think I had issues with snake shit. So I changed the capitalization (thanks, **TubaDiva**!) to reflect that it was intended to represent different words. ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-my-sdmb-name-shouldve-been/364282/4 "2006-07-13T03:33:30Z")
I sort of regret running with RoninCyberpunk. I mean, I’m one of those kids who grew up on the Internet and so my cool highschool AIM name is only cool for so many years. Now I’m wishing I had gone with something different. Perhaps one day I’ll seek a name change on here, but nothing has grabbed me thus far. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-my-sdmb-name-shouldve-been/364282/5 "2006-07-13T03:36:17Z")
I changed my name a week or two ago. Check my sig. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-my-sdmb-name-shouldve-been/364282/6 "2006-07-13T03:37:37Z")
[QUOTE=Hippy Hollow] Anyway, did you discover a better SDMB username after you’d come up with your brilliant nom de guerre? [/QUOTE] Nope. 🙂 I love my Doper name, and am “Misnomer” (or Misnomer971) just about everywhere on the 'net. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-my-sdmb-name-shouldve-been/364282/7 "2006-07-13T03:38:21Z")
And naturally, I forgot to check the little box, as happens every time someone says to check their sig… ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-my-sdmb-name-shouldve-been/364282/8 "2006-07-13T03:39:28Z")
Okay, there was an error that time (you can only post once every 60 seconds). **Now** , it’s going to work. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-my-sdmb-name-shouldve-been/364282/9 "2006-07-13T03:42:11Z")
I thought briefly of changing my name to **The Embodiment of Whoops!** , but I’m glad I didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-my-sdmb-name-shouldve-been/364282/10 "2006-07-13T03:46:42Z")
[QUOTE=ultrafilter] I thought briefly of changing my name to **The Embodiment of Whoops!** , but I’m glad I didn’t. [/QUOTE] Perhaps Captain Carrot should considered that for a username. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JustAnotherGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@JustAnotherGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustAnotherGeek)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-my-sdmb-name-shouldve-been/364282/11 "2006-07-13T03:53:49Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Carrot] Okay, there was an error that time (you can only post once every 60 seconds). **Now** , it’s going to work. [/QUOTE] Is this some kind of new Gaudere’s law or are you going for the Irony of the Week award? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-my-sdmb-name-shouldve-been/364282/12 "2006-07-13T03:54:10Z")
This is the only place that I’m **Kat** …because it’s taken everywhere else. From time to time, I consider changing to match one of my other usernames, so people from one place could know it’s me here, but then I think, Why should I make life easy for them? 😉 **Captain Carrot** ’s sig, if anyone was wondering, is (according to his profile): > [@](#): > > I’ve gone from being a dwarf in a fairly well-known fantasy series to …being another dwarf in a different, not-as-well-known fantasy series. I just realized that, actually (of course, this will make no sense in a few weeks). > > dwalin to Captain Carrot, in case you didn’t realize. Does this mean that I now rank Doors? ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-my-sdmb-name-shouldve-been/364282/13 "2006-07-13T03:58:43Z")
How do you change your Username? When I go to the User CP I can’t find any option for doing that. Otherwise I would have changed it ages ago. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-my-sdmb-name-shouldve-been/364282/14 "2006-07-13T04:00:19Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Carrot] I changed my name a week or two ago. Check my sig. [/QUOTE] Not as well known? **Not as well known?** He’s the bleeding biggest seller in the English language who isn’t currently a female or dead! Not as well known… ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-my-sdmb-name-shouldve-been/364282/15 "2006-07-13T04:01:31Z")
[QUOTE=vaderspal] How do you change your Username? When I go to the User CP I can’t find any option for doing that. Otherwise I would have changed it ages ago. [/QUOTE] Email Tuba and ask. That’s the only way to be sure. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-my-sdmb-name-shouldve-been/364282/16 "2006-07-13T04:03:03Z")
Having spent some happy hours at your namesake, **Hippy Hollow** , that’s a handle I might have chosen myself. 😃 But I like mine own. And besides, yours is obviously already taken. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-my-sdmb-name-shouldve-been/364282/17 "2006-07-13T04:06:45Z")
I figure I should have been named the same anyway. I got my name from the _Doonesbury_ character who is pretty naive (I was at the time)–and not the famous Hawaiian-based military hospital. Anyway, long story short, I am **Tripler** , hear me post (and then some)!! Tripler Proud of the name, proud to carry on a formerly wet-behind-the-ears tradition. (I ain’t anymore). ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-my-sdmb-name-shouldve-been/364282/18 "2006-07-13T04:31:36Z")
I like **dogbutler** , but **cyborg platypus** does have a nice ring to it. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-my-sdmb-name-shouldve-been/364282/19 "2006-07-13T04:39:33Z")
[QUOTE=Hippy Hollow] But today I was watching an old XTC documentary when they were recording _Black Sea_ in Chipping Norton, near where I used to live in Oxfordshire. Chipping Norton’s got a little size to it, I imagine most UK Dopers have heard of it. Middleton Stoney was a little village just outside of RAF Upper Heyford which we traveled through every day to school. Yep, I should have been \*_Middleton Stoney._ [/QUOTE] I live 6 miles west of Chippy (as the locals know it) and have been through Middleton Stoney (the village) many times. It’s on my route to the M40 motorway. Chipping Norton can’t be that sizeable. I was talking to an American visitor in a pub there one day and he asked me where the downtown area was, to which I was forced to reply, “You’re in it.” My next username will be _Vlad The Impala._ ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-my-sdmb-name-shouldve-been/364282/20 "2006-07-13T04:48:26Z")
'Round here we have the “[Happy Hollow Park and Zoo](http://www.happyhollowparkandzoo.org/),” so it makes weird sense. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-my-sdmb-name-shouldve-been/364282.md?page=2)