# origin of your handle **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2001, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-your-handle/54817 "2001-02-16T23:12:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BornDodgy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@BornDodgy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BornDodgy)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-your-handle/54817/21 "2001-02-17T15:48:38Z")
boyfriend once told me that I look **dodgy** on first impression. :rolleyes: and I bet you all know the song at the end of trainspotting - **born** slippy… tarataaaa! born dodgy. bows the dodgy one ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-your-handle/54817/22 "2001-02-17T15:56:47Z")
Okay, mine’s really boring - it’s my nickname IRL. However, there are many different ways to spell it and no two people I know spell it the same way. Kayby Kayeby Kayebee Kayebe Kaye-B Oh what’s the use? I tried, but it’s still boring. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Watermelon\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/22d042/32.png) [@Watermelon\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Watermelon_Man)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-your-handle/54817/23 "2001-02-17T17:43:22Z")
Sue Duhnym: I had figured after about one week of ignorance!! And that made me a fan of yours!!! As for my name…its just a funny sound…no zoom , no pity, no other story involved… And now that I am an active visitor of the boards, I am looking for a way to change it to Watermelon Man one of my all time favorite jazz tunes. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-your-handle/54817/24 "2001-02-17T18:00:48Z")
If you haven’t read Roger Zelazny’s Amber series or played the DRPG based on same, you’d have no idea what I was talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Soda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Soda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soda)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-your-handle/54817/25 "2001-02-17T18:15:15Z")
A friend introduced me at another board with the words “I’d like you to meet a very good friend of mine, **soda**.” My friend’s handle? **Whiskey**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tretiak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Tretiak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tretiak)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-your-handle/54817/26 "2001-02-17T18:34:15Z")
Vladislav Tretiak was one of the all time great hockey goalies, so I used this handle while on a hockey message board somewhere and I guess about the same time I signed up here. Later I learned Tretiak was the name of the bad guy in the Val Kilmer movie _The Saint_. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2001, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-your-handle/54817/27 "2001-02-17T18:41:07Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Zoom Pity \* \*\*I am looking for a way to change it to Watermelon Man [QUOTE] Just e-mail TubaDiva and she can change it for you. [sub]STALKER!!![/sub] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Watermelon\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/22d042/32.png) [@Watermelon\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Watermelon_Man)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-your-handle/54817/28 "2001-02-17T18:44:24Z")
Thanks 🙂 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mandi\_s\_Mind\_101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mandi\_s\_Mind\_101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mandi_s_Mind_101)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-your-handle/54817/29 "2001-02-17T18:45:40Z")
Thought that you guys would get an exclusive insight to whats goin on up there, from my posts. ---
**Author:** ![tubagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-your-handle/54817/30 "2001-02-17T20:45:14Z")
My comes from my hobby of tuba playing obviously. It should be tubagoddess. I think I will email Tuba Diva to have it changed. I got it when I first logged onto hotmail in 1996, it was the first thing that came to mind. It stuck. There aren’t many tubagirls out there ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-your-handle/54817/31 "2001-02-17T20:46:19Z")
Albert is my last name. My grandfather (Tom) grew fine, fine roses – so fine, in fact, that he earned a good reputation in his community (Macon, GA). The best rose is an Albert Rose! I left out the space between the words for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-your-handle/54817/32 "2001-02-17T21:05:00Z")
Well, it’s because all my friends at home (not the ones at college) call me bouv. It’s my nickname, and as such I adopted it as my handle. However, some people tend to have a goal in life to make me angry, and steal my name before I can register it at a particular site, so I have to add 32 to the end, because 32 is my favourite number. Then there is my AIM name, which is completly different because someone also had bouv32! The nerve! (but if I’m playing an online game, my handle is UberWang.) ---
**Author:** ![Nimue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@Nimue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nimue)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-your-handle/54817/33 "2001-02-17T21:12:36Z")
Nimue’s a character in one my favourite books. I didn’t particularly identify with the character, but I really liked her name. I was never any good at thinking up imaginative handles so I decided to stick with it. ---
**Author:** ![SallySimpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@SallySimpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SallySimpson)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-your-handle/54817/34 "2001-02-17T21:57:39Z")
My favorite band of all time is The Who. It’s a Who song. A really good Who song. Not the best Who song, but my name’s Sarah and Sally is a nickname for Sarah, I’ve been told. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-your-handle/54817/35 "2001-02-17T22:07:26Z")
I’m named after a sword from a D&D campaign my brother wrote. Bonus points for anyone who can translate it. ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-your-handle/54817/36 "2001-02-17T22:09:31Z")
You’re supposed to ‘make up’ a name? Wouldn’t thsat upset your mothers? She worked and she slaved, and these are the thanks she gets? ---
**Author:** ![steeljaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@steeljaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steeljaw)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-your-handle/54817/37 "2001-02-17T23:55:28Z")
Due to certain stresses placed on my face in sports and other activities, I had to undergo a small (major) reconstructive mandibular surgery. My jaw is now reinforced with plates and screws fashioned from titanium. But titaniumjaw just didn’t have the same flow to it. ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2001, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-your-handle/54817/38 "2001-02-18T02:41:50Z")
Because I have one and wear it when the opportunity comes around. Formal events, Scottish festivals, special occasions, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2001, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-your-handle/54817/39 "2001-02-18T03:04:28Z")
Drank some bad hootch. Started an ill-thoughtout"Name The Moderator!" contest. The rest is history! BTW, I thought about using my SCA name, but “John Smith” didn’t seem impresive enough. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2001, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-your-handle/54817/40 "2001-02-18T06:06:00Z")
Czar, I’m still upset that you changed your name… Now when I make fun of you, the two-syllable moniker throws the rhythm off! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-your-handle/54817.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-your-handle/54817.md?page=3)