# Name Translations...some are obvious and some are just plain weird **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 23, 2000, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304 "2000-03-23T05:25:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![drollman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f04885/32.png) [@drollman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drollman)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2000, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/41 "2000-03-23T17:41:00Z")
Multiple reasons…pick one: Drollman–because people think I’m funny. Drollman–short for drum roll man, because I play the drums Drollman–because “Soul Man” was taken…and I play the guitar. Original Sig: With God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly. Current Sig: (See below–Just one of the many stupid things I have said) Thinking of changing Sig to: Personally, I like a little more humour in my comedy. * * * My fate keeps getting in the way of my destiny. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2000, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/42 "2000-03-23T17:47:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **drollman** : > > With God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly. - Les Nessman, “WKRP In Cinncinati.” Esprix, who loved that show * * * [Ask the Gay Guy!](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html) ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2000, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/43 "2000-03-23T17:49:00Z")
OK, since I didn’t post this the last three times we had nickname threads… 🙂 I have always had cats, but have never happened to have a purebred cat. All have been alley cats, mutts, moggies – just plain cats. To avoid hurting their furry little feelings, some people call these kitties “randombred.” So since I’ve had nothing but random cats, Catrandom ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2000, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/44 "2000-03-23T17:49:00Z")
Mine is an old AOL screen name. My real name is Paul and Pluto is a sort of anagram. Plus I enjoy the multiple meanings – the planet, the Roman god, the Disney dog. * * * “I used to think the brain was the most important organ in the body, until I realized who was telling me that.” Emo Phillips ---
**Author:** ![malden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@malden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malden)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/45 "2000-03-24T06:01:00Z")
I have been researching my family history. My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather lived in Malden, Massachusetts. He was the first in my family to live in the New World. Recently I went to Boston and read his will and inventory-- the **originals** from 1682 and 1687 are still on file with the state. So i picked my progenitor’s hometown as my SD nickname. ---
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Dirty\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Devil)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/46 "2000-03-24T06:26:00Z")
## I have a bright red, kinda’ evil looking 4X4 that’s usually covered with mud. When I’d come home from the trails, the wife would say “Look at that dirty devil!” I liked it and it just stuck. My license plate reads “DRTYDVL” (ah, how cute, uh?). I’d like to cut your head off so I can weigh it. What do you say? ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/47 "2000-03-24T06:26:00Z")
Because I like seeing people scratch their heads trying to figure out how to pronounce it. 😉 * * * You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Derfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@Lord\_Derfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Derfel)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/48 "2000-03-24T06:26:00Z")
Mine comes from _The Winter King_ trilogy by Bernard Cornwell. Derfel is the son of a saxon slave who is adopted by Merlin, and grows to be a Lord and friend to King Arthur. An excellent set of books, that I recommend to anyone who will listen to me. ---
**Author:** ![Prairie\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Prairie\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prairie_Rose)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2000, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/49 "2000-03-23T23:30:00Z")
My first name is **not** Rose, but I do enjoy growing them. And since I live in Nebraska, “Prairie Rose” seems appropriate. 😉 Prairie Rose * * * If you’re not part of the solution you’re just scumming up the bottom of the beaker. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2000, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/50 "2000-03-23T23:32:00Z")
It’s an old college nickname. ---
**Author:** ![saucy\_potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@saucy\_potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucy_potato)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/51 "2000-03-24T00:18:00Z")
A long time ago I was given the nickname ‘potato face’. As it turns out, an anagram for my name is ‘any saucy potato’… and the ‘saucy potato’ part just stuck. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/52 "2000-03-24T00:26:00Z")
[The Battle of Sempach, 1397](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mmbt/www/women/yonge/deeds/sempach.html) Then Arnold von Winkelried of Unterwalden, with an eagle glance saw the only means of saving his country, and, with the decision of a man who dares by dying to do all things, shouted aloud: “I will open a passage.” “‘I have a virtuous wife at home, A wife and infant son: I leave them to my country’s care, The field shall yet be won!’ He rushed against the Austrian band In desperate career, And with his body, breast, and hand, Bore down each hostile spear; Four lances splintered on his crest, Six shivered in his side, Still on the serried files he pressed, He broke their ranks and died!” The very weight of the desperate charge of this self-devoted man opened a breach in the line of spears. In rushed the Swiss wedge, and the weight of the (austrian) nobles’ armour and length of their spears was only encumbering. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/53 "2000-03-24T00:27:00Z")
Hi, my name is Katheryn and I love kitty cats. The Gr8 part is just a goof because most of the time I feel anything but. It’s just an attempt to bolster my pathetic self esteem. * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Muscular Dystrophy Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![kinoons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kinoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kinoons)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/54 "2000-03-24T00:30:00Z")
Kinoons is my old hockey nickname. My coach could never get my entire last name out, so he just cut it short. It stuck even sense * * * Kinooning it up for 20 years and counting ---
**Author:** ![Yue\_Han](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/eada6e/32.png) [@Yue\_Han](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yue_Han)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/55 "2000-03-24T00:39:00Z")
I’m a first year Chinese student, and we were assigned names for class. Mine is Ai Yue Han. I originally registered as Ai\ Yue- Ha in a attempt to convey tone marks. Then I gave that up (It screwed up the autofills- It was NOT peer pressure, no matter what you people say.) I tried to register Ai Yue Han but accidently registered it to an email address that doesn’t exist. So I ended up with this. On a related note, I recently got a little program that lets me display Chinese characters. This is how my name is written: °¬ Ô¼ º² Unfortunately I can’t increase the size with UBB code. You may have to actively change encoding to Chinese Simplified GB. –JOhn * * * 'Twis brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gymble in the wabe. Mimsy were the borogroves, And the momeraths outgrabe. ---
**Author:** ![neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ab097/32.png) [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/56 "2000-03-24T00:39:00Z")
I’ve said this before, but I’ll repeat it one more time. The story behind my name is that there is no story, it’s just something that popped into my head one night. I dropped the name I had been using and became neuro-trash grrrl the very next day. It nicely encapsulates the randomness of my mentality and my love for silly puns. * * * Heck is where you go when you don’t believe in Gosh. ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/57 "2000-03-24T00:46:00Z")
I think mine is pretty self-explanitory. * * * A woman needs four animals in her life: A mink in the closet, a Jaguar in the garage, a tiger in the bedroom, and an ass to pay for it all. —Zsa Zsa Gabor ---
**Author:** ![Minxsmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Minxsmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minxsmom)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/58 "2000-03-24T00:48:00Z")
My little kitten’s name is Minx. And, I’m her mom. Minx’s Mom. OK, OK, nobody said the story had to be interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/59 "2000-03-24T00:57:00Z")
Green = my environmental philosophy and political party Bean = a nickname for the brain or head Therefore, Green Bean could be translated into “environment-head.” Also, my favorite cousin’s babyhood nickname was Beanie Greenie, and sometimes she was called Greenie Beanie. This is because her last name starts with “Green” and she looked like a cute little bean when she was a baby. So, my screen name is also in honor of her. And you all thought my screen name had something to do with green beans! ---
**Author:** ![Jeannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@Jeannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeannie)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/60 "2000-03-24T01:06:00Z")
“Jeannie” is my real name. I know. I’m so uncreative. I’ve thought of changing it, but then I’d have to think of a new screen name _and_ a sig line. Anyone have any ideas for me on the sig line? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304.md?page=4)