# Help me pick my new username! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 29, 2005, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-username/324036 "2005-09-29T15:52:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![hawkeyejo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e19b73/32.png) [@hawkeyejo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawkeyejo)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-username/324036/21 "2005-09-30T00:21:59Z")
You could always go for **My Dear Chod**. ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-username/324036/22 "2005-09-30T00:46:05Z")
I think **Oedipus Raja** is the winner so far. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-username/324036/23 "2005-09-30T02:11:58Z")
**El Capo de Tutti Frutti** , if it’s not taken. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-username/324036/24 "2005-09-30T02:48:32Z")
**Crap Nelson** ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-username/324036/25 "2005-09-30T02:55:21Z")
**Inhale Mary** (actual band name) ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-username/324036/26 "2005-09-30T03:50:54Z")
> [@Happy Lendervedder](#): > > **Crap Nelson** **HEY!** I take offense to that! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-username/324036/27 "2005-09-30T03:57:39Z")
But getting back to the topic at hand, it sort of matters whether you meant to be offensive or not…don’t you think? I mean, if you MEANT to be offensive, we should be trying to find alternative offensive but acceptable names for you. If you DIDN’T mean to be offensive, we should be trying to find alternative non-offensive names that express your personality. I’m not so sure I am up to the challenge, but surely some of the inventive minds here will come up with something. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-username/324036/28 "2005-09-30T04:23:22Z")
How about **THROAT WARBLER-MANGROVE (but pronounced MADARCHOD)** or **MAD ARCHER** (we’ll know) ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-username/324036/29 "2005-09-30T04:31:47Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > In that case, how about: > > **Little Oed** I was thinking **Shorter Oed**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-username/324036/30 "2005-09-30T04:45:16Z")
You could always go with **Death-Feast Blood-Island Man**. Or just plain old **Oeddy**. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-username/324036/31 "2005-09-30T05:25:30Z")
Mud Erf Offensive Foreign Name Screaming Ellows Yonkers Uff The Jester Scruffy the Lunker Staci’s Mom & Me Like Chum Over Troubled Waters Slush Pump ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-username/324036/32 "2005-09-30T05:53:15Z")
_PheasantPlucker_, as in the old tongue twister: “I’m not a pheasant plucker, I’m a pheasant plucker’s son. I’m only plucking pheasants till the pheasant plucker comes.” Son…plucking…coming. Right up your alley, I’d have thought. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-username/324036/33 "2005-09-30T06:03:48Z")
When I was in college we called the afterglow effect a ‘Wangover.’ How about Wangover? As long as you don’t start a band called Wangover and The Funkerotic Sex Explosion…because that’s all mine. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-username/324036/34 "2005-09-30T06:41:16Z")
**Garutavakar [Sha na na](http://www.shanana.com/)** 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gouda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-username/324036/35 "2005-09-30T07:36:38Z")
> [@Mdr](#): > > my own ideas so far: > > Big Lund > Tatti Balls Tatti Balls 🙂 I knocked my knee against the keyboard tray, and sprayed my monitor with the Coke I was drinking. In the office. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Mdr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@Mdr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mdr)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-username/324036/36 "2005-09-30T14:31:38Z")
this is getting very interesting…on one hand i’ve seem to hit paydirt w/ this whole ‘sex w/ mom’ thing. Some other names make reference to that but are too smart for me. I have another guy who has bruised knees, screwed up keyboard and lost Coke from this…very interesting. Keep posting…i’ve got some other ideas as well. How about maybe i stay as Mdr, BUT…i sign my posts as Madarchod! techically speaking, the admin said that profainity is allowed in posts but not in usernames…so all i would be doing is being profane in my posts, yet letting ppl know I am a rebel against the system and will not give my name away to The Man!? Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-username/324036/37 "2005-09-30T15:21:34Z")
mmmmmmmmyeah… I find that the tolerance allowed to a smartass is directly proportionate to the quality of the overall contribution. If you’re going to blatantly funk with the _spirit_ of the profanity rule I would imagine the content of your posts should be superior if you intend to play with us for very long. This is a very large community, geographically speaking, and “Motherfucker” is going to be an offensive word/phrase/concept to some of our native tongues. As in any situation, you’ll need to offset that by making it worth putting up with. And then there’s the “don’t be a jerk” rule. Is there, perhaps, another, less offensive way, to buck the system? ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-username/324036/38 "2005-09-30T15:23:07Z")
> [@Mdr](#): > > this is getting very interesting…on one hand i’ve seem to hit paydirt w/ this whole ‘sex w/ mom’ thing. Some other names make reference to that but are too smart for me. I have another guy who has bruised knees, screwed up keyboard and lost Coke from this…very interesting. > > Keep posting…i’ve got some other ideas as well. How about maybe i stay as Mdr, BUT…i sign my posts as Madarchod! techically speaking, the admin said that profainity is allowed in posts but not in usernames…so all i would be doing is being profane in my posts, yet letting ppl know I am a rebel against the system and will not give my name away to The Man!? Anyone? You probably don’t want a 3-letter name. The SDMB search feature will not search for words of less than four characters, and sooner or later you’ll want to do a vanity search. I truly don’t understand why you would want to be known as “mother fucker”. It doesn’t mark you as being “a rebel against the system” – it marks you as being immature and/or sexually messed up. I’m guessing that you are young. We certainly welcome and enjoy younger Dopers here. But you will almost certainly get repeatedly clobbered for thinking that attempting to shock with obscenity makes you “a rebel against the system”. What you will be judged by will be the content of your posts. If you’ve got a problem with The Man, and you are able to present and discuss your viewpoint intelligently, you’ll be respected. If all you can do is throw out a bunch of words intended to shock, then you’re just another attention whore and probably won’t last long here. Why not pick a user name that says something about who you really are, rather than one intended to make other people have a certain reaction? Anyway, we’re pretty hard to shock here. ---
**Author:** ![Mdr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@Mdr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mdr)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-username/324036/39 "2005-09-30T15:36:43Z")
> [@laina\_f](#): > > You probably don’t want a 3-letter name. The SDMB search feature will not search for words of less than four characters, and sooner or later you’ll want to do a vanity search. > > I truly don’t understand why you would want to be known as “mother fucker”. It doesn’t mark you as being “a rebel against the system” – it marks you as being immature and/or sexually messed up. > > I’m guessing that you are young. We certainly welcome and enjoy younger Dopers here. But you will almost certainly get repeatedly clobbered for thinking that attempting to shock with obscenity makes you “a rebel against the system”. What you will be judged by will be the content of your posts. If you’ve got a problem with The Man, and you are able to present and discuss your viewpoint intelligently, you’ll be respected. If all you can do is throw out a bunch of words intended to shock, then you’re just another attention whore and probably won’t last long here. > > Why not pick a user name that says something about who you really are, rather than one intended to make other people have a certain reaction? > Anyway, we’re pretty hard to shock here. it’s just more for fun, bcuz i have very random and stupid thoughts flying around in my head and this is as good a place as any to vent and screw around. I’m not trying to be a rebel nor am I trying to make a point, just trying to goof off harmlessly. When the mood so strikes me to interject in a serious conversation w/ some serious thoughts, i can do that as well as anyone, but w/ work and life being so serious all the time, this is a fun way to not be me I guess. In any event, thanks for the info. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-username/324036/40 "2005-09-30T15:40:05Z")
I think you should go with one of the old Tried and Trues … Pick one for your area of interest: Bathroom humor – I.P. Knightly Preparedness – Justin Case Flowers – Chris Anthymum Epicure – I. M. Hungry Astrology – Horace Cope School punishment – Dee Tension Sailing – Ron A. Ground Entomology-- Amos Quitoe Accounting – Adam Upp OR Owen A. Lott Humor – Joe King Burglary – Kermit A. Krime OR Robin Banks Beer – Al Coholic Forestry – Tim Burr French population studies – Francis Crowded Astronomy – Saul R. System Gardening – Brock Ali Yard work – Ray Cleaves Athletics – Jacques Strappe Robotics – Cy Borg Fundamentalist Christianity – Ollie Luyah Texas history – Al E. Moe English criminology – Scott Linyard Carpentry – Bill Jerome Holme 70s dance trends – Sheik Yerbouti [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-username/324036.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-username/324036.md?page=3)