# Please explain your DoperName **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 20, 2005, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093 "2005-10-20T15:35:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/1 "2005-10-20T15:35:40Z")
“anyrose” is a play on my initials and last name I’d like to know where you came up with yours especially those of you with really bizarre ones ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/2 "2005-10-20T15:36:48Z")
Well… I’m Johnny, and I joined when I lived in L.A. :shrug: ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/3 "2005-10-20T15:40:02Z")
I’m a large hairy gay man who lives in the swamps of south GA. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/4 "2005-10-20T15:41:09Z")
They aren’t females, and you aren’t the one who makes love to them… Anyone bring the rum? ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/5 "2005-10-20T15:42:41Z")
I’m lookin’ for love a la Eddie Murphy a la Buckwheat. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/6 "2005-10-20T15:44:06Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > I’m a large hairy gay man who lives in the swamps of south GA. Oh, a _bear!_ :smack: I’d always taken it more literally. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/7 "2005-10-20T15:45:59Z")
:smack: I meant to post that in reply to > [@FlyingCowOfDoom](#): > > Hi everyone! Just paid the $$ for a subscription. I’ve been lurking around the board for a couple weeks now, and I enjoy the boards, so I figured it was time to cross over to the dark side. > > I’m not sure what kind of initiation I have to endure, like having sex with sheep or what, but I’m ready. Do your worst! 🙂 > > –FCOD in [I’m new here. Let the hazing commence.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=6705221#post6705221) Damn. Ah well, Scott Plaid is almost my real name, and I saw someone else, somewhere else using it, so I swiped it. Wasn’t there a thread about this a few weeks back? ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/8 "2005-10-20T15:49:35Z")
Some people gave me the nickname “Loopy” a long time ago, and sometimes it got turned into the incredibly annoying “Loopydude”. I hate my name, and only used it because it was unique, easy to remember, and I thought I could change it willy-nilly when I first signed on. I think I’m more-or-less stuck with it now. Anyhow, the nickname was given because: A) I’m good a tying certain knots. OR B) I occasionally exhibit symptoms of psychosis. OR C) Both. I’ll leave it up to you to decide. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingCowOfDoom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyingcowofdoom/32/21776_2.png) [@FlyingCowOfDoom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingCowOfDoom)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/9 "2005-10-20T15:56:19Z")
About twelve years ago I was trying to think of a good screen name…after sitting there for about 10 minutes staring at the screen “FlyingCowOfDoom” came rocketing into my head. Call it divine inspiration or downright insanity, but that’s what happened. Used the name ever since. –FCOD ---
**Author:** ![Meaty\_Beaty\_Big\_and\_Bouncy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Meaty\_Beaty\_Big\_and\_Bouncy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meaty_Beaty_Big_and_Bouncy)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/10 "2005-10-20T16:03:36Z")
Mine is an out of print **Who** album that contained their early hits, many of which had never been released on LP. It is also the only album that has the 3:49 minute studio version of the song\* Magic Bus\*, not the shorter, inferior version. Can you guess **Who** my favorite band is? ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/11 "2005-10-20T16:03:54Z")
Because I am the bus guy. I run the transportation department for a large school district. ---
**Author:** ![AThingWithFeathers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@AThingWithFeathers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AThingWithFeathers)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/12 "2005-10-20T16:05:48Z")
Here’s the [last thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=327865) on the subject. My name’s changed since then, but any fan of poetry knows the reference. I am a thing with feathers that perches in the soul. ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/13 "2005-10-20T16:10:31Z")
CJ is my real-life nickname, and I have a certain relentless, terrier-like tenacity. At the time I chose it, too, I had a tendency to get involved in some rather hard-fought religious debates in which I insisted that it was possible to be a good Christian and yet have friends who were Wiccans, etc. without trying to convert them. Siege seemed to suit me at the time, even if it did take a while for me to get the hang of not misspelling it, and it still does. CJ ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/14 "2005-10-20T16:16:48Z")
**Crotalus** is the genus name of most rattlesnakes. I like rattlesnakes. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/15 "2005-10-20T16:17:36Z")
> [@AThingWithFeathers](#): > > Here’s the [last thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=327865) on the subject. My name’s changed since then, but any fan of poetry knows the reference. > > I am a thing with feathers that perches in the soul. ah - that was before I started posting in earnest even tho I joined almost a year ago, it wasn’t until a friend sent me the link to a MPSIMS thread about getting old(er) (the link for which I cannot find - it’s been inactive for several weeks) that I started insinuating myself into these boards ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/16 "2005-10-20T16:18:30Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > Oh, a _bear!_ :smack: I’d always taken it more literally. You mean you _thought_ I was a for real bear even after meeting me? Hmm… maybe I do need to trim the beard a bit then. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/17 "2005-10-20T16:19:10Z")
I had been reading Straight Dope for a while and using it as a reference. One day I looked in the dark closet with all the noise coming out of it and I discover the board. I had just read something by Cecil were he complained in jest, doesn’t anyone use their real names anymore and I decided to keep my user name boring. Initials and last name. Yours truly, Jim Franchi ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/18 "2005-10-20T16:19:33Z")
It’s an anagram of my real name. Plus it sounds quite bad-ass. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/19 "2005-10-20T16:22:43Z")
> [@Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy](#): > > Mine is an out of print **Who** album that contained their early hits, many of which had never been released on LP. It is also the only album that has the 3:49 minute studio version of the song\* Magic Bus\*, not the shorter, inferior version. > > Can you guess **Who** my favorite band is? Okay, I give up WHO is your favorite band? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/20 "2005-10-20T16:24:01Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > Okay, I give up WHO is your favorite band? Yes [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093.md?page=2)