# 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:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![TaleraRis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@TaleraRis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TaleraRis)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2000, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/81 "2000-03-27T06:09:00Z")
Mine you wouldn’t guess unless you roleplay with me. It’s simple, though. I have a character I roleplay with on Efnet on IRC in #VampCastle named Talera. The character she married a while back used TrevorRis for his nick, because his name was Trevor Ristain. So I tacked on the Ris to mimic him when they married and I’ve used the nick ever since. When I get in chat I just use Talera, though. I got the name out of Curse of the Mistwraith - she was the Queen. * * * I rode Omni in Springfield, IL ---
**Author:** ![Lawrence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2bfe46/32.png) [@Lawrence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lawrence)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/82 "2000-03-29T01:02:00Z")
My name is Lawrence because I went to college in a certain Midwestern town of the same name where I spent 7 years getting my BA and MA. Billy Packer was shouting “Rock chalk, Jayhawk” a couple of weeks ago. Well, he ain’t gonna be shouting it no more this tournament, but just wait till next year. ---
**Author:** ![Yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/83 "2000-03-29T02:24:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Milossarian: > \*\*Amalgamation of two characters from one of my fave books - “Catch 22” > > Milo + Yossarian = Milossarian > > But you knew that, right? > > \*\* Yep, we knew that: [http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/003298.html](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/003298.html) ---
**Author:** ![brdrcolle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ebca7d/32.png) [@brdrcolle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brdrcolle)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/84 "2000-03-29T04:44:00Z")
Add a few vowels, and my name is in honor of my very smart 4 footed buddy… border collie And he is full of tricks, too! * * * “My, my. Such a lot of guns around here and so few brains.” ~Humphrey Bogart ---
**Author:** ![TomH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90db22/32.png) [@TomH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TomH)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/85 "2000-03-29T14:04:00Z")
Mine’s actually an anagram of “moth”. I’m an entomologist studying the narrow-bordered bee hawk-moth (_Hemaris tityus_). ---
**Author:** ![YHVH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@YHVH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YHVH)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/86 "2000-03-30T06:07:00Z")
I am the Lord God of Hosts. But that was already taken, so… * * * I giveth…and I taketh away ---
**Author:** ![Spiny\_Norman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304/87 "2000-03-30T12:35:00Z")
Monty Pythons Flying Circus, the “Piranha Brothers” sketch. Spiny Norman is a giant hedgehog, somewhere between 6 and 800 feet long and lives in an abandoned airplane hangar near Luton. I saw the sketch the night before I decided to register, and - well… Norman [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-translations-some-are-obvious-and-some-are-just-plain-weird/15304.md?page=4)