# \*magical sound effect\* You are now your username - how screwed are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 19, 2012, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956 "2012-08-19T12:17:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/241 "2012-08-21T02:19:51Z")
I would build a starship that would take me where no man has gone before. Then I would fly it to Alpha Centauri because I can’t stand people. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/242 "2012-08-21T02:30:14Z")
Compartmentalized, with a heavy metallic taste in my mouth. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/243 "2012-08-21T06:11:27Z")
If you take it to mean, “dude in Japan” then I’m just the “same ole Joe”. If you take it to mean, “Japanese dude”, then i’m just the “same ole Tanaka”. FTR: I’m not Japanese. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/244 "2012-08-21T09:18:53Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > I wouldn’t be screwed, I’d be stuffed! That’s where curiosity gets you (hence the choice of username). Have you met **Curiosity Kills Her** yet? ---
**Author:** ![InsomniaMama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ad7895/32.png) [@InsomniaMama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InsomniaMama)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/245 "2012-08-21T10:06:07Z")
_sigh_ No change at all. ---
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/246 "2012-08-21T11:48:07Z")
Not much of a change. I still play the drums and left to my own devices, I would dress a bit like a bum. My only real concern is \*\*DrumGod \*\*is likely to come looking for me. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/247 "2012-08-21T12:33:18Z")
I’d be svelte and chic, singing chansons in a throaty contralto to people drinking wine in a small smoke-hazed lounge. There would be an air of mystery with a touch of melancholy about me. I don’t know if I could stand myself! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/248 "2012-08-21T13:21:00Z")
I’m the goddess of 1/13th of the alphabet! _preen_ ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/249 "2012-08-21T13:31:15Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Help! I’m not anything! > > Or 4/7ths of an old kingdom which doesn’t exist any more, take your pick. You could become a really annoying fairy. (Legend Of Zelda) I could become: 1. A lame superhero 2. Really warm in winter 3. Even more perverted? ---
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/250 "2012-08-21T13:40:36Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Help! I’m not anything! > > Or 4/7ths of an old kingdom which doesn’t exist any more, take your pick. [Perhaps not.](http://www.nava.org/) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/251 "2012-08-21T13:50:53Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > Well, as Dendarii Dame I would be a female Vorkosigan (not too great a situation, in most cases, but sometimes okay), a member of a space mercenary fleet (actually, a somewhat better choice), or Lois McMaster Bujold herself. As an author, I would love to write as well as she does, so that’s my pick. Or just a peasant from the Dendarii mountains- possibly starring in a panto. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/252 "2012-08-21T14:50:06Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Do you bounce by any chance? > You can still talk to me if you like. 🙂 Cool. Not sure if I’d bounce; it’s been a while since I heard that phrase, as the market has remained amazingly steady despite all the doom and gloom. But I can be a bouncy person. > [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > Maybe someone will even make a creepy, creepy helicopter out of you! Is that a reference to some weird indie film where there is a dead cat? I remember **Johnny L.A.** pointing this out to me some time ago as he thought that was the origin of me username, but I never got round to watching it. > [@Gyrate](#): > > Have you met **Curiosity Kills Her** yet? I saw that username the other day and thought of me! But fortunately, I’m a he :). ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/253 "2012-08-21T15:00:16Z")
I gather life in the Aurient is pretty comfortable, at least compared to Ankh-Morpork. Wouldn’t mind another adventurous vacation if that Rincewind fellow would take me along again. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/254 "2012-08-21T15:05:47Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > Is that a reference to some weird indie film where there is a dead cat? I remember **Johnny L.A.** pointing this out to me some time ago as he thought that was the origin of me username, but I never got round to watching it. [Read it and be amazed.](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154283/Cats-away-Artist-turns-dead-pet-flying-helicopter-killed-car.html) ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/255 "2012-08-21T15:14:43Z")
I’m really screwed … the bad guy in a B movie who never gets the girl, and always gets beaten up or shot by the hero. I get to wear a cool costume sometimes, though. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/256 "2012-08-21T15:26:39Z")
The original Bubbadog (my pet) is in puppy heaven so I wouldn’t be around. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/257 "2012-08-21T15:32:34Z")
Hard-drinkin’, fish-eatin’, Basque-speakin’, coal-haulin’ Santa Claus knockoff. There are worse fates to contemplate. ---
**Author:** ![Crab\_Rangoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Crab\_Rangoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crab_Rangoon)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/258 "2012-08-21T15:52:45Z")
I would suddenly become very appetizing. Very appetizing indeed. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/259 "2012-08-21T16:03:27Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > I’m a [retired future mercenary and police consultant](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Schlock_Mercenary_characters#Lieutenant_Commander_John_Der_Trihs_.28Retired.29). So I’m actually pretty well off, what with all the cool super-hi-tech gadgets I’ll get to play with. I’m just lucky this thread didn’t come up before he retired… Funny, I always figured it would be more like dead from a transporter malfunction.. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/260 "2012-08-21T16:07:26Z")
Drachillix was going to be the main start point/port facility in an online space rpg me and a group of friends were working on. It fizzled before it really got anywhere, if it had, we would have had something like Eve Online about 5 years earlier and probably not as cool. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956.md?page=14)