# If you had to pick another board name, what? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 3, 2001, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-another-board-name-what/48211 "2001-01-03T07:06:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-another-board-name-what/48211/1 "2001-01-03T07:06:13Z")
No reason for this thread. None at all. Just bored. My choice would be my old AOL name: SlckBldr. Or, now that we can use more than 8 letters, SlackBladder. It’s a reference to Blackadder, my other favorite British comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-another-board-name-what/48211/2 "2001-01-03T07:12:50Z")
Mine’d be one of these three, most likely the first 1. Puma~, I created this online persona a long time ago 2. KinglyAxeMan, this is my Age of Kings one 3. Darkangel, I got this from the amazing trilogy, which came out a decade before the TV series ---
**Author:** ![wyldelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@wyldelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wyldelf)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-another-board-name-what/48211/3 "2001-01-03T07:17:38Z")
Mine would probably be Ickle Lassie. That is what I was called by most of the people I travelled with when I was in Scotland - it has kinda stuck. ---
**Author:** ![blur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dbc845/32.png) [@blur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blur)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-another-board-name-what/48211/4 "2001-01-03T07:21:53Z")
I dunno, I kinda like my name, but if I had to I guess I would choose Team Beer 32, which is my hockey team and number. ---
**Author:** ![Dignan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dignan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dignan)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-another-board-name-what/48211/5 "2001-01-03T07:22:09Z")
Future Man. It comes from the same movie as my current namesake. ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Bullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-another-board-name-what/48211/6 "2001-01-03T07:26:25Z")
I had wanted to be Dr. Worm (another of my favorite TMBG tunes) but some other freak has it already!!! And s/he isn’t using it! Argh. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![absoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@absoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/absoul)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-another-board-name-what/48211/7 "2001-01-03T07:29:37Z")
absoul, Damnit!!! someone has already taken it!! ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-another-board-name-what/48211/8 "2001-01-03T07:42:25Z")
**Noodles** A character from my [favourite movie](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0087843). ---
**Author:** ![Snark\_Hunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snark\_Hunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snark_Hunter)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-another-board-name-what/48211/9 "2001-01-03T08:05:35Z")
I’d pick “Sorry” or “Monopoly,” but definitely not “Trivial Pursuit” or “Clue.” “Clue” just isn’t my type of… Oh, board NAME, not board GAME? Nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-another-board-name-what/48211/10 "2001-01-03T08:18:34Z")
I would pick a nickname that isn’t my real name. I’m thinking of changing my handle, but when I mentioned it in chat a while ago, someone told me not to, as it’s difficult to remember who someone is after they change names. So I’m still thinking. I’d go for some kind of hippie-ish “noun” name like River or Ivy or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![TaleraRis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@TaleraRis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TaleraRis)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-another-board-name-what/48211/11 "2001-01-03T08:56:51Z")
Lyinar. It means Wolf Sister in Elven and I use that handle on the EverCrest message boards. EC’s a comic strip based on the EverQuest game. ---
**Author:** ![Boomfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/db5fbb/32.png) [@Boomfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boomfly)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-another-board-name-what/48211/12 "2001-01-03T09:13:51Z")
Mhhh lets see, maybe the question to me would be: \ What should a good screenname have? let me try a bit of a marketing approach: what do we want to say/communicate? why should people want to believe that? Is there anything it must contain? Is there anything it cannot contain? What does it pay ,sorry can never seem to leave this one out 😉 To me the questions above lead to… Boomfly or as my Mplayer handle goes: Ze Boomfly \ ---
**Author:** ![Cumber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5ac83/32.png) [@Cumber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumber)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-another-board-name-what/48211/13 "2001-01-03T11:08:09Z")
I would choose **Scoff** , because he’s another dragon with a silly name that invites ridicule from the same book as **Cumber**. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-another-board-name-what/48211/14 "2001-01-03T11:13:54Z")
Miserable Scrote, or Omphalos. ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-another-board-name-what/48211/15 "2001-01-03T13:57:23Z")
i like trees. It’s been my ICQ name for about 5 years. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-another-board-name-what/48211/16 "2001-01-03T14:19:05Z")
Either **laughing boy** or **nature boy**. for those “in the know” they have that snotty Bugs Bunny quality while, to the shallower, nicer, Disney types, they sound perfectly inoccuous. ---
**Author:** ![Deiket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Deiket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deiket)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-another-board-name-what/48211/17 "2001-01-03T14:19:06Z")
Well… perhaps one of my nicknames. Glyndaa or Graceful (earned that one for falling off a chair and seriously spraining my ankle…) Or some form of Shendramazillion, a name created by a good friend of mine. I also use Maurget and Feleris and Venkelos. (I have LOTS of different names… I have LOTS of different online personalities… I have lots of different personalities, period…) ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-another-board-name-what/48211/18 "2001-01-03T14:28:47Z")
If I ever change my SDMB name, it’ll be to “Big Sexy.” I was out once listening to my brother’s band (in fact it was the first Dallas DopeFest). After the last doper left, I was walking through the crowd to the bar and was stopped by a VERY good-looking black couple who were dressed to the nines. The guy, who was kickin’ it Isaac-Hayes style with a shaved head and sunglasses at night, stopped me with an arm across my path and said, “Woooo! You are Big Sexy. Ain’t he, honey?” Honey allowed as how I was, and he turned back to me and said, “That’s you. From now on you are Big Sexy.” I thanked him and said they were pretty damn sexy too, and went on up to get my beer. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-another-board-name-what/48211/19 "2001-01-03T15:03:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yojimbo \* > \*\ ***Noodles** > > A character from my favourite movie. \*\* Aw, shit, **yoji** …I thought for sure that link was going to lead me to John Waters’ PINK FLAMINGOS (1972). “Baby Noodles” was the name of the infant that Connie and Raymond Marble, aspirants to the title of “Filthiest People Alive,” presented to the Lesbian couple in exchange for a big cash payoff. Baby Noodles had been borne by Suzie, the teenage runaway they kept locked up in the basement and who was regularly impregnated by the handyman, Channing, who masturbated into a turkey baster while he was dressed up in Connie’s clothes… ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-another-board-name-what/48211/20 "2001-01-03T15:09:07Z")
I would be **Colonel Sandwich**. That name has cracked me up for the last 5 years and I have no idea why. I’m still mad that I didn’t think of it when I signed up here. Maybe it’s time to e-mail tubaDiva. There’s too many damn Chiefs here anyway. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-pick-another-board-name-what/48211.md?page=2)