# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/201 "2005-11-21T19:09:33Z")
Thanks, Jim! ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/202 "2005-11-21T19:29:05Z")
I stink like a Calcutta sewer. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/203 "2005-11-22T02:29:27Z")
Ooh, yay - I’ve been waiting for an opportunity like this! For those who haven’t already got it, I thought I’d try to pick something in keeping with the character of the message board (and myself). Curiosity killed the cat, so here I am. I’m not a fan of roadkill or animal cruelty or anything like that! ---
**Author:** ![roshia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6bbea6/32.png) [@roshia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roshia)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/204 "2005-11-22T02:59:06Z")
Back when I was thirteen years old and going through my angst-goth stage, my friend Elise mentioned that I really needed a more badass name than “Rachel”. Roshia, we decided, was a much more fitting name for the MIGHTY FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH that I saw myself as at the time, and so a new nickname was born. These days, I’m about the perkiest little perky thing you’ll ever meet, but I still think it’s really cool that I had a name made up in my honor. So Roshia it is. ---
**Author:** ![Citizen\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Citizen\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Citizen_Bob)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/205 "2005-11-22T04:39:21Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > Eh. Mine’s boring, really. It’s just the initials for the phrase _Quod Erat Demonstrandum_, which is Latin for “So, there!” It’s the first thing that popped into my head when I registered here. Awe, man! And I was hoping it was “Quantum Electro-Dynamics” [🆒] ---
**Author:** ![Citizen\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Citizen\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Citizen_Bob)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/206 "2005-11-22T04:43:49Z")
Citizen Bob was my radio handle, given to me by Rev. Flounder. When I was first broadcasting, I was doing this silly 40’s voice and he said it reminded him of Orson Wells… and my name is Bob. Citizen Bob ---
**Author:** ![dbuzman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@dbuzman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbuzman)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/207 "2005-11-22T04:46:50Z")
Mine is a holdover from the days of when AOL was around 15$ a month. Either AOL or some BBS at the time gave you a user name of your first initial plus your last name (in my case it spelled my last name wrong). And I have used it on so many BBS and message boards since then that it’s what I use if it isn’t already being used. ---
**Author:** ![dbuzman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@dbuzman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbuzman)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/208 "2005-11-22T04:48:52Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > Eh. Mine’s boring, really. It’s just the initials for the phrase _Quod Erat Demonstrandum_, which is Latin for “So, there!” It’s the first thing that popped into my head when I registered here. According to an old TV show it stands for Quentin Everhart Deveroe (spelling?) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gooftroopag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gooftroopag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gooftroopag)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/209 "2005-11-22T04:49:01Z")
[QUOTE=Stillwell Angel] "There’s no _CRYING_ in baseball"QUOTE] I tell my cat that all the time… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gooftroopag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gooftroopag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gooftroopag)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/210 "2005-11-22T04:53:27Z")
My favorite cartoon character is Goofy. I used that name for awhile, but then after working in Disney World in college, a coworker began calling me “Goof Troop” because he thought I was really weird. So the name kind of stuck with me and I tacked on the “Ag” for Texas A&M Aggies, hence “Gooftroopag.” ---
**Author:** ![RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RancidYakButterTeaParty)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/211 "2005-11-22T17:55:33Z")
Isn’t it obvious? ---
**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:** [November 22, 2005, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/212 "2005-11-22T18:03:08Z")
> [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](#): > > Isn’t it obvious? You mean your part of the band? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093.md?page=10)