Game: spot the obscure movie/book/etc.. references in doper's nicks

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[li]fishbicycle – A possible card game reference[/li]
Could this be a reference to the old saw, “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle”?

[li]pepperlandgirl – An assumed Butthole Surfers reference[/li]
Couldn’t it also be a Beatles reference?

[li]SolGrundy – Possible Batman comicbook villian[/li]
But first it was a nursery rhyme:

Solomon Grundy,
Born on Monday,
Christened on Tuesday,
Married on Wednesday,
Took ill on Thursday,
Worse on Friday,
Died on Saturday,
Buried on Sunday:
This is the end
Of Solomon Grundy

[li]Spit – An assumed reference to the ‘Persecution of Genius’ band [/li]
Also a card game and a vile habit of baseball players.

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I can’t search the list of members so I am not sure, but if
Bodhi is a real username then she is the evil vampress from Baldur’s Gate 2

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Mine is one of several on SDMB from the same source material.

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Mine is an abbreviation of a character name from a pair of somewhat obscure fantasy novels by Greg Costikyan.

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I see that Ponder Stibbons posted in this thread earlier. That nick comes from a character’s name in the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett. I know I’ve seen someone using the nick Angua and Sam Vimes elsewhere on the boards, and those names are from the Discworld novels as well.

My nick’s origin isn’t obscure. At least, I don’t think it is.

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He took it from the comic book character appearing on Superfriends.

I don’t think Dex is done… C K Dexter Haven is Carrey Grant’s character in The Philidelphia Story.

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Sure. And rowrrbazzle is from Pogo.
Which reminds me of koeeoaddi, whose name comes from the Incredible String Band song “Koeeoaddi There.”

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I know that I don’t post enough to get noticed, but can anyone guess where I got my name?

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Neverending Story? Not too obscure, but it probably depends on your age.

Actually, as smart as Dopers are, I don’t think too many names are obscure for long. Somebody will figure it out. :slight_smile:

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I just have a dog named Bubba.

But I thought about changing my name to Hiz-Boi-L-Roi

Slinks away quietly

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Michael Corleone didn’t think Tom Hagen was good Wartime Consiglieri, although Don Vito did.

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Might Shalmanese be a reference to the super-computer that gains self-awareness in John Brunner’s Stand On Zanzibar?

I may have an unfair advantage here.

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:smiley: And I know yours, of course!

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**KingPengvin ** -Probably a reference to the last episode of BlackAdder, Series 3, when King George III refers to himself as KingPengvin.

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Hmmmm. :wink:

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Nawww…not opera, although my name is a 19th century reference.

(Which of course, rules out Ma Vie en Rose, which is neither an opera, nor a movie which I have seen, but I at least am familiar with its plot. So, maybe I have some catching up to do with Ludovic references…but I don’t like opera!!!)

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Yikes. No wonder I don’t post much. Just saw it was pop culture references, which my name is not.

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Since I haven’t even been mentioned yet, I’ll just blab:

I took the name as an homage to a younger, less-mature Superman (I have a superhero fixation). And it’s also the name of the hamster in Bart Simpson’s classroom in early episodes of the show.

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Zombies Ate My Brain is a video game.
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Tentacle Monster** is a reference to a popular sort of monster from Japanese adult anime.

Muad Dib is an obvious reference to Dune.

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Harimad-sol is the main character in The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley.