# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Burrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/81 "2005-10-20T21:59:20Z")
High School nickname and long running joke. Yes, it was spelled wrong on purpose. ---
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/82 "2005-10-20T22:12:51Z")
I named myself after Ozymandias’ mutant lynx in Watchmen. I just wanted something obscure enough to be picked up by the most learned of nerds, and also sound kinda cool too. Failed on both counts ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Pyroette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90db22/32.png) [@Pyroette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyroette)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/83 "2005-10-20T22:14:04Z")
Honestly, because my SO’s call sign is Pyro. And I am his feminine half, so I became Pyroette. Then I realized it could be pronounced like a ballet move, which just made it cooler. ---
**Author:** ![Stillwell\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Stillwell\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stillwell_Angel)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/84 "2005-10-20T23:24:06Z")
Any fan of the movie “A league of their own” would understand. I wanted to use “There’s no _CRYING_ in baseball”, but that was a tad longish. Just to add, I’m in no way a fan of any sport, let alone baseball, but that movie has some strange power over me. :dubious: If it’s on, I must watch. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/85 "2005-10-20T23:33:30Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > I always thought you were a Wookie from Punjab. > > No, really. :smack: I keep reading that UN as “Wookie in a pub”. I don’t know how… I think I’ve said it before - S and I are the first 2 letters of my first name. Originally I took the proper phonetics and was Sierra India, but that sounded kinda weird and hokey, so I decided on Sierra Indigo instead. But now I want to change it. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/86 "2005-10-20T23:39:52Z")
The secret to my Username is hidden [HERE](http://www.cia.gov/cia/information/tour/krypt.html) ---
**Author:** ![Carm6773](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2bfe46/32.png) [@Carm6773](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carm6773)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/87 "2005-10-20T23:47:59Z")
My first name is Carmen, but a lot of people call me Carm. My birthdate is June 7, 1973. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/88 "2005-10-20T23:56:00Z")
[Here’s the source of my name](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:nme997lgkrht) ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/89 "2005-10-20T23:57:01Z")
> [@whole bean](#): > > Thanks (I think. You’re not making fun of me are you?). . No, I’m complimenting you. It’s not every day I run into someone who’s heard of Holbein. I have the famous painting you refer to in a couple of books, yet, oddly enough, can’t remember if I’ve seen IRL. ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/90 "2005-10-21T00:00:36Z")
It’s my first name…I wasn’t feeling very creative when I joined. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/91 "2005-10-21T00:10:53Z")
**DMark** was the currency in Germany, and considering I had lived there for many years, I thought it would be an appropriate name. How was I to know that Germany would switch to Euros… To be honest, I didn’t give all that much thought to choosing a name back in the days when I first signed up. I probably should just go by my real name: Butch Studdude. ---
**Author:** ![LadySybil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c89c15/32.png) [@LadySybil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LadySybil)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/92 "2005-10-21T00:11:06Z")
I am somewhat overweight (all my friends assure me I’m not fat, but I’m definitely not a stick either). I also love the writer Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, and the Commander Vimes stories in particular. I am named after his wife, Lady Sybil Ramkin Vimes. She’s in my sig too, from the book _The Fifth Elephant_. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/93 "2005-10-21T00:37:31Z")
From the Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam: “The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on, nor all your piety and wit can call it back to cancel half a line nor your tears wash out a word of it.” OK, so it’s pretentious. Deal with it, proles. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/94 "2005-10-21T00:53:04Z")
(_Lovingly_) copied and pasted, just for you: > [@Anastasaeon](#): > > My real name is Anastasia. > > My husband was waxing romantic one day, and, knowing I love the stars, and I love flowers, too - he told me I was his star, his Anastasaeon. Also, that I was his flower, his Anastasalilly. > > Anastasaeon had a nicer ring to it. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/95 "2005-10-21T01:30:19Z")
> [@GillianBoardman](#): > > I’m named for a Robert Heinlen character, from Stranger in a Strange Land. Do you go by that name on another message board? I am Savannah because when I picked a pen name for my erotic fiction, I went kind of florid. (I tossed in the last names of two of my favourite male writers, too) Savannah to me is sultry and feminine, and I drove by Savannah Avenue often. Previously I’ve always been Siren online, since 1991 or so, but that’s becoming used more, and it’s often taken when I sign up somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Otanx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Otanx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otanx)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/96 "2005-10-21T01:39:55Z")
Mine is boring. I had to get a name for my character in Everquest. Tried several different names, and finally gave up. Used the random name generator untill I found one that was short, and pronouncable. Got Otan. Moving between servers it ended up that someone else already had Otan on my new server so to avoid a naming conflict they put an x on the end of my name. I found out later that I was the one that had Otan used on that server on another account. By the time I found out I could get it changed back to Otan I was well known as Otanx. Been using Otanx for alot of stuff after that. Also it seems to be fairly original as if you google my name the first several hits are posts I have made to different message boards. I think these days I have more friends that know me by Otanx than by my real name. -Otanx ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/97 "2005-10-21T01:56:17Z")
My name comes from a science fiction story by Cordwainer Smith. The story was called **Mark Elf** which is German for model 11. It was a story that had a great impact on me when I read it in high school. It had a lot to say about the nature of individuality versus predetermined destiny. The character Mark Elf was an intelligent rocket/bomb. When I decided to stop lurking, the first thing I did was go to Yahoo to create an email address and someone had taken markelf so I frenchified it by spelling it with a “que”. It was a way of making my own statement about free will vs. destiny and honoring a great writer who has been unjustly forgotten. The only nickname I’ve ever had was 4 eyes and I was damned if I’d use that for a user name. ---
**Author:** ![lost\_in\_cyberspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6a8cbe/32.png) [@lost\_in\_cyberspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost_in_cyberspace)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/98 "2005-10-21T02:01:53Z")
I just came up with my name as I was registering, then once I registered, I thought how very clever of myself to have come up with it !.. (I realize I am probably the only one that thinks its even remotely clever) ---
**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 21, 2005, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/99 "2005-10-21T02:03:11Z")
> [@lost in cyberspace](#): > > I just came up with my name as I was registering, then once I registered, I thought how very clever of myself to have come up with it !.. (I realize I am probably the only one that thinks its even remotely clever) While that sounds like a sad plea for attention, I did think your name was kinda clever. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093/100 "2005-10-21T02:07:27Z")
It’s taken from the famous Roman general, [Quintus Fabius (known as Cunctator\*)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cunctator). I admired his use of delaying tactics when we studied him in Latin at school. \*from the Latin verb to delay: \*cunctor, cunctari, cunctatus sum \* and hence the noun _cunctator_: one who delays [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-your-dopername/327093.md?page=6)