# How many of you are there? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 5, 2020, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/845959 "2020-01-05T02:30:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/845959/41 "2020-01-06T07:23:57Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > So you have two different user names for the SDMB? Is that what you’re saying? My avatar is a pic of Me and my sig line is/are quotes I attribute to Myself 😃 I don’t think I’ve ever encountered another Sith Bunny, certainly not one with the Farce Power of Easter (all parents know the Easter Bunny is a Sith Lord) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/845959/42 "2020-01-06T08:09:25Z")
Lots and lots of beckdawreks. They ain’t me. I was beckdawrek when I was a tiny girl and my Daddy made up a little diddy about my name. He had nicknames for all of us. So I got first dibs. Altho’ all those other beckdawreks don’t care. Stinkers. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/845959/43 "2020-01-06T13:40:26Z")
I really don’t know. I ran across a different Dung Beetle one other time, on a medical forum asking the same question I had been going to ask! It turned out to be my mother, who “borrowed” my internet name because she didn’t have one of her own. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/845959/44 "2020-01-06T14:09:41Z")
I am on the Unaboard too. Other than that, zimaane is unique, as far as I can tell. My real life name is fairly common, so it’s nice to be different online. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/845959/45 "2020-01-06T16:18:12Z")
Would any one else in their right mind use **btwm**? No. (Apparently, it has been co-opted once by a SPAM-mer, but my wife has alerted Google. Other than that, _I’m all alone in the world._) \<-- Mr. Magoo reference ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/845959/46 "2020-01-06T16:22:59Z")
Jet Jaguar and it’s variants used to be uncommon, but in the last 5-6 years it’s become so common that they’re pretty much always already taken. So in games and other sites I’ve started using a different name that’s based on a MST3K sketch, but not exactly the same as any of the names listed in that sketch. That one is unique and always available. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/845959/47 "2020-01-06T22:56:59Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Back in the Bronze Age of the internet, I used Jophiel because it was always available, unlike other more famous entries on the list of archangels. These days, it’s almost always taken and I have other unrelated usernames I use instead. So there’s a whole lot of me and not-me’s out there. In 1999, Internet was made out of wood and bronze. But at least forums were generally unmoderated. 55 threads about me selling only spam follow. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/845959/48 "2020-01-06T22:58:11Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Lots and lots of beckdawreks. They ain’t me. > I was beckdawrek when I was a tiny girl and my Daddy made up a little diddy about my name. He had nicknames for all of us. > So I got first dibs. Altho’ all those other beckdawreks don’t care. Stinkers. I had very very many nicknames in different places. Sometimes I changed my nicknames weekly. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/845959/49 "2020-01-06T23:06:29Z")
I guess mine was desirable for hospital planning people. Who knew? [https://windsormegahospital.weebly.com/](https://windsormegahospital.weebly.com/) ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/845959/50 "2020-01-06T23:19:53Z")
as far as I know I am the only rsat3acr. Some may remember I am a dentist. There is a dentist in CA with my same first and last name. Only about 8000 of my surname in the U.S. so I find that interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/845959/51 "2020-01-07T01:03:20Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > There are many Dallas Jones’. One is a relatively famous guy in Texas. Ed Zotti/Cecil once asked me if I was that guy. > > No. Dallas Jones is simply the name of my cat. _Ronald_ Jones was the sonarman on USS _Dallas_ (Hunt for Red October), I always conflate them into…you. :o > [@GuanoLad](#): > > I made up this username originally in 1995, when I wrote and drew a comic strip for a local newspaper. When I got online soon after, I deliberately chose this name because I thought nobody in their right mind would have it elsewhere nad it would be safe to pick wherever I signed up. And this has been absolutely true. > > …until I tried to sign up for Flickr about 15 years ago and it was taken by someone who had been using it as his nickname for ten years longer than I had. This has been my only encounter with him, he mostly stuck to sites about wine so we didn’t really clash, but I haven’t seen any notice of him since then either, he seems to have faded away from the internet. Do you look like [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OWMB3ewpNM&t=1m31s), from the front? ---
**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:** [January 7, 2020, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/845959/52 "2020-01-07T01:42:56Z")
Apparently there is someone else who beat me to Twitter with this moniker, which has been my primary nom de net since 92 or so and alt.callahans. _He’s_ the drunken asshole. Honest. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/845959/53 "2020-01-07T04:58:08Z")
I’m also on flyertalk, the social media site for frequent flyers, but I very very rarely post there. ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/845959/54 "2020-01-07T20:02:07Z")
My name has nothing to do with me being an author, but there real authors with the last name of Balk. IRL there was someone in the city I lived in with my name who was murdered and it made national news. I had calls from across the country to check on me. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2020, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/845959/55 "2020-01-08T03:01:24Z")
The Great Space Coaster is mostly forgotten, but not totally obscure. There are many variations on the name of the wildebeest newscaster floating around. The precise way I have it here, all lower case without a space, is used by people other than me on Twitter and Instagram and probably most other sites. But it’s mine here and at a large, prominent aggregator site. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/845959/56 "2020-01-08T13:16:22Z")
Well, no gnus is good gnus. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/845959/57 "2020-01-08T16:23:28Z")
When I joined the board Bubba was the name of my dog who I occasionally referred to as Bubbadog. I was unaware that the name would be popular with others and as such the Straight Dope and Giraffe’s board is just about the only place I have this name. Anywhere else I try to join I usually get told that the Bubbadog username is taken. Bubbapuppa is less used so oh a few sites I’ve taken that username. ---
**Author:** ![Pixel\_Dent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Pixel\_Dent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixel_Dent)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/845959/58 "2020-01-10T13:52:17Z")
I didn’t expect to find any other Pixel Dent’s but apparently there’s a dentist in the suburbs of Chennai, India called “Dental Pixel Dent Care” which is pretty close. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2020, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/845959/59 "2020-01-11T19:23:15Z")
As far as I am aware, I am the only **Suburban Plankton** out there, though in most places I’m **suburbanplankton**. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/845959/60 "2020-01-11T19:44:14Z")
There are several, because it’s such an obvious handle for anyone named Carol who either loves Egypt or lives in Cairo, Illinois. (Oddly, neither of those conditions applies to me - I just happened to be living in Cairo when I first took an on-line user name, and as I’m an Indonesia lover, the name was kind of a nod to the (in)famous Surabaya Sue). A CairoCarol has a Twitter account and that’s not me. Apparently there are 4 (?) Facebook CairoCarols, none of whom are me. My name IRL is also pretty common. People with my name litter the internet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-are-there/845959.md?page=2)