# If your user name became a verb, what would be mean? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 2, 2006, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933 "2006-10-02T04:55:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/1 "2006-10-02T04:55:12Z")
As all Americans know, to [macgyver](http://rdanderson.com/macgyver/episode/mac4.jpg) a problem is to solve it resourcefully and successfully while making use only of materials already at hand. Likewise to pull a [homer](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/eb/C-homer.png/222px-C-homer.png) is to succeed specutacularly despite obvious idiocy (and, typically, to keep on being idiotic until you fail even more spectacularly). All of which suggests the question: if your username --or even your real name, if you want to share – became a verb (or the key term in a verb phrase), what would it mean? Be nice, now. Just talk about YOURSELF. No fair mentioning other posters. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/2 "2006-10-02T05:36:13Z")
My real name is a verb already, albeit misspelled. It means “to take or support from one place to another; transport.” My username, on the other hand, seems like it should be modified to be a verb. (Right now it’s an interjection.) Anyway, it seems like AwSnappitying (AwSnapping?) would be to open a thread (on any MB), compose an entire post, decide your post is irrelevent and/or uninteresting, and click the “previous” button as if nothing had ever happened (as I very nearly did with this thread). ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/3 "2006-10-02T05:42:28Z")
I don’t know, but it sounds like the kind of thing I’d hope didn’t happen very often. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/4 "2006-10-02T07:16:50Z")
To **Askia:** To reshape the parameters of forensic debate by introducing one’s own observations and definitions as relevant and largely unassailable facts. 😃 It’s my world. I’m just tolerating the rest of you. ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/5 "2006-10-02T07:27:15Z")
I suspect little would change. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/6 "2006-10-02T07:32:52Z")
Madmonked: 1. To post on a message board since it’s beginning, forget your original password, sign up with a different username, forget to renew your subscription, and lose your “charter membership” 2. To be generally ignored on a message board, to be invisible; ---
**Author:** ![bundykala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@bundykala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bundykala)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/7 "2006-10-02T07:39:24Z")
**bundykala** _(verb):_ To attempt in vain to break the torturous shackles of newbie-dom whilst simultaneously feeling as if you Belong. [QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] \ Be nice, now. Just talk about YOURSELF. No fair mentioning other posters. [/QUOTE] Sigh. Ok, but I can’t wait till **Hal Briston** finds this thread. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/8 "2006-10-02T08:47:08Z")
I’m honestly not sure, but I imagine it would involve something slutty. Maybe poodle-ballin’. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/9 "2006-10-02T11:36:48Z")
**Eureka** : to make a sudden (often surprising) discovery. Has nothing to do with me, just going for the obvious association with the phrase that already exists. ---
**Author:** ![GeorgiaBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@GeorgiaBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GeorgiaBoy)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/10 "2006-10-02T11:40:39Z")
Unfortunately, it would probably refer to an activity preceded by the observation “You sure got a pretty mouth”. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/11 "2006-10-02T13:46:05Z")
Mine already is…(smirk) ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/12 "2006-10-02T13:47:22Z")
:smack: no it isn’t it’s a noun you stupid stupid man :smack: ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/13 "2006-10-02T13:53:28Z")
[QUOTE=madmonk28] Madmonked: 1. To post on a message board since it’s beginning, forget your original password, sign up with a different username, forget to renew your subscription, and lose your “charter membership” 2. To be generally ignored on a message board, to be invisible; [/QUOTE] Huh, did someone say something? 😉 **To What Exit** would be: 1. “To spend too much time on the dope and post in a full spectrum of varying eclectic threads.” 2. “To talk too much.” 3. “To quest for the proper location of new and interesting things.” Jim ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/14 "2006-10-02T14:01:27Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Huh, did someone say something? 😉 [/QUOTE] D’oh! ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/15 "2006-10-02T14:07:23Z")
Getting **Hypno-Toaded** sounds like becoming the victim of a street scam. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/16 "2006-10-02T14:13:00Z")
In Czech, “prav” is the root word of “truth” and the suffix “-nik” is sort of like the English suffix “-er.” So a rough literal translation of “pravnik” would be “truther.” ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/17 "2006-10-02T14:34:33Z")
Cluricaun (verb): 1. To run an entire marathon with one’s arms tightly locked down at one’s sides while slightly bent over at the waist ending with a head butt to someone standing at the finish line. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/18 "2006-10-02T14:36:24Z")
Hmmm … maybe something southern california surfer boys would spend the afternoon doing after smoking some bodacious weed. “Dude, we shot the pipeline at Malibu, then we toked up and sunrazored all the way down to Chula Vista.” Why yes, the last time I saw a surfboard \*was \* 1968, why do you ask? ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/19 "2006-10-02T14:44:44Z")
**draelin** : _[DRAY-lin]_ (v., **draelinned, draelinning** ) To injure oneself in a wholly improbable way, perhaps causing friends and coworkers to disbelieve you. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933/20 "2006-10-02T14:49:25Z")
**Lendervedder** _verb_: To have an unpleasant encounter with bodily excrement in a hotel or motel room. _At the end of last week’s episode of “The Office,” Michael and Dwight were Lenderveddered after turning on a black light in Michael’s hotel room._ [cite](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=356483) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-user-name-became-a-verb-what-would-be-mean/374933.md?page=2)