# \*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:** 7
**Author:** ![Rollo\_Tomasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@Rollo\_Tomasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rollo_Tomasi)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/121 "2012-08-19T21:27:40Z")
Technically, I don’t exist. I’m just a name that a young man decided to call the unknown purse snatcher who killed his police officer father. Or maybe I’m overthinking it, and I’m just a purse snatcher. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/122 "2012-08-19T21:41:16Z")
I would have a different name and more interesting ancestors. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/123 "2012-08-19T21:48:36Z")
I’d be a gravelly voiced cartoon character, but I’d have an awesome figure and great hair. There’s also the married to the megalomaniacal Monarch part… that’d give me pause right there. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/124 "2012-08-19T21:56:26Z")
> [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > I’d be a gravelly voiced cartoon character, but I’d have an awesome figure and great hair. There’s also the married to the megalomaniacal Monarch part… that’d give me pause right there. He’s still better than Phantom Limb. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/125 "2012-08-19T22:08:31Z")
“jack davinci” is my general all purpose alternate name, so I suppose I would be a best selling author and renowned actor/director/whatever. I’m cool with that. Or a distant relative or sidekick of Leonardo. Or more literally it would just mean I live in Vinci. I’ve never been there but I imagine it’s a nice place. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/126 "2012-08-19T22:49:41Z")
:::I’m so screwed!::: :smack: ---
**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:** [August 19, 2012, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/127 "2012-08-19T22:53:02Z")
I’d be a demi-Muppet. As long as Muppet rules apply, that would be pretty cool. I could travel by map, make crude jokes, but I’d be stuck with a unique speech impediment. ---
**Author:** ![LegsAkimbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@LegsAkimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LegsAkimbo)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/128 "2012-08-19T23:08:30Z")
I’m sending out the wrong message. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/129 "2012-08-19T23:09:45Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Anaamika means anonymous. It also means ‘Friendly Ana’ in Esperanto. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/130 "2012-08-19T23:15:26Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > I’d be a demi-Muppet. As long as Muppet rules apply, that would be pretty cool. I could travel by map, make crude jokes, but I’d be stuck with a unique speech impediment. Well, hey… No gnus is good gnus with garygnu. ---
**Author:** ![BigDadWolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@BigDadWolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigDadWolf)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/131 "2012-08-19T23:18:43Z")
I think I would be worse off under my original user name of BigBadWofl - things did not usually turn out well for him in the old stories. As BigDadWolf I think I would just be a more hirsute which wouldn’t be too bad as I am a bit follicly challenged. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/132 "2012-08-19T23:20:41Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Anaamika means anonymous. Who said that ??? ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/133 "2012-08-19T23:21:50Z")
Can we get a bit of temporal hinkyness in with that random musical tone? Cause, right about now, I’m all evil and bitchy and manipulative and all, but if you go back a bit, at least part of me detaches and gets to hang out with Harry Dresden’s id. And it’s all hot and sexy and dark and iddy. Yowza. Also, that bit of me is less evil (still manipulative tho). Which is probably good for me. I personally don’t do major evil very well, so I would suck at it, and maybe get demoted. I imagine that would be unpleasant. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/134 "2012-08-19T23:30:24Z")
I’m not sure, but apparently I’m attacking…maybe flatland. ---
**Author:** ![GreedySmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GreedySmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreedySmurf)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/135 "2012-08-19T23:44:17Z")
Here’s hoping there isn’t any Gargamel’s or Azreal’s on the board. 😃 On the plus side there a few of us small blue folk around here, so at least we can team up, and we’ll have cakes from me, and presumably plenty of booze from Drunky. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/136 "2012-08-20T00:00:13Z")
Depends on whether the deity reads Le Guin. If so, it might recognize the reference–“Light is the left hand of darkness, and darkness the right hand of light”–and make the logical extrapolation. I’ll end up being Cool. If the deity doesn’t read Le Guin, I’ll likely spend the rest of my life clicking W,A,S,D. ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/137 "2012-08-20T00:04:18Z")
I am your beginning . . . . . or a clay tablet. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/138 "2012-08-20T00:16:11Z")
On the plus side, I would be able to skate and play hockey! Woohoo! On the negative side…[I’d be significantly shorter](http://static.bored.com/user/47889/media/12fc7b33a9ice_hockey_monkey_jpg.jpeg). ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/139 "2012-08-20T00:16:45Z")
> [@Rollo\_Tomasi](#): > > Technically, I don’t exist. I’m just a name that a young man decided to call the unknown purse snatcher who killed his police officer father. > > Or maybe I’m overthinking it, and I’m just a purse snatcher. At least you can be sure of getting away with it. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956/140 "2012-08-20T00:20:12Z")
I’d devour information. Which is pretty much what I do now anyway, so little change. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magical-sound-effect-you-are-now-your-username-how-screwed-are-you/631956.md?page=8)