# Screen name significance? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 28, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screen-name-significance/164897 "2003-03-28T21:48:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![summerbreeze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@summerbreeze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/summerbreeze)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screen-name-significance/164897/41 "2003-03-29T16:18:39Z")
Oooh, **Davebear**! First you’re kinda snotty, then you’re nice. I guess that’s the kind of bear you are. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screen-name-significance/164897/42 "2003-03-29T17:01:10Z")
My ID is my initials. I’ve been **qts** on umpteen message boards and accounts since way back when. I’ve just Googled myself and found that I started using qts there in 1996. Previously, I used my full name and signed myself qts. There’s only one other qts on Usenet and they’re currently inactive. There is or was also a company called QTS which also turned up in Google. Anyway, I’m me, and I see little point in hiding. ---
**Author:** ![scablet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@scablet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scablet)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screen-name-significance/164897/43 "2003-03-29T21:03:14Z")
Perversion of “Scarlet”. I sometimes go as **Scablet O’Hara** or **Sharon Needles** , but I wanted something short and sweet for this message board. ---
**Author:** ![Shadez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Shadez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadez)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screen-name-significance/164897/44 "2003-03-29T21:22:19Z")
Shadez…hmm… It was a name an ex-friend was using at the time. I _think_ he said it was a band or singer or something. But since he’s now my ex-friend, I changed my location to “inside a color pencil box” to give the reader an impression of Shadez of color, instead. ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screen-name-significance/164897/45 "2003-03-29T21:42:08Z")
I got my name from a hobbit name generator which uses your real name to produce the hobbit variation so I’d assume it’s pretty much exclusive to me. I used to go by the handle Xena2000, but it seems so do several other women … ---
**Author:** ![Sqube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@Sqube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sqube)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screen-name-significance/164897/46 "2003-03-29T22:07:33Z")
**Sq** uare + c **ube** = **Sqube**. Back when I was on AOL (before I knew about the inernet), my screen name was far too descriptive, so my mom made me pick a new one. I don’t know how I came up with it, but it seemed pretty slick at the time so I stick with it. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screen-name-significance/164897/47 "2003-03-29T23:17:46Z")
Mine was the name of an episode of _Monty Python’s Flying Circus_ I used as an internet psuedonymn for a while before joining the SDMB. It has the advantage of sounding like someone’s real name. I have another name I use for a handle on an online WW2 game which is a corruption of my real life first name. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screen-name-significance/164897/48 "2003-03-29T23:19:26Z")
**Linty Fresh** is what my wife calls me around the house. ---
**Author:** ![robertliguori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@robertliguori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertliguori)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screen-name-significance/164897/49 "2003-03-30T02:05:28Z")
I chose my screen name in honor of one of the greatest and most prolific lovers that ever lived. So nyah. (Apoligies to the gestalt consciousness of Grant Naylor.) ---
**Author:** ![Upside\_Down\_Amber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/c2a13f/32.png) [@Upside\_Down\_Amber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Upside_Down_Amber)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screen-name-significance/164897/50 "2003-03-30T02:21:01Z")
My wall is covered in photos of Amber Benson and Alyson Hannigan due to my utter worship of these two actresses. My girldfriend came to visit me back in Febuary. This was our first time together and I was a little nervous. While her and I were in bed she play moaned “mmmm upside down Amber” (because of how is was lying.) So it became a joke to us and since she is the one who introduded me to the board I wanted something that she would know… pretty simple. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screen-name-significance/164897/51 "2003-03-30T02:25:23Z")
**L** eader **O** f **B** ritish **S** ociety **A** gainst **N** ail **G** rowth Sorry **SPOOFE** , but when you have a good idea, you can’t expect no-one to copy it. ---
**Author:** ![CadburyAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@CadburyAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CadburyAngel)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screen-name-significance/164897/52 "2003-03-30T05:15:42Z")
(By the way, I always liked your username, ever since I was a lurker, **Angua**.) Tis the season for Cadbury Creme Eggs. God in Heaven must love us if such delicious things exist on earth. But since He’s probably busy with more important stuff, he must have delegated the creation of the Eggs to a lesser angel. Now that angel just makes sure that they appear every year, bringing their joy and sublime bliss. I hope that when I die, I can work as the Cadbury Angel for a while. Also, I was eating one when I registered. (An egg. Not an angel.) ---
**Author:** ![Magickly\_Delicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magickly\_Delicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magickly_Delicious)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screen-name-significance/164897/53 "2003-03-30T06:45:32Z")
I was just starting to play Diablo II at the time I registered, and I was amused by the game’s constant misspelling of “elemental magicks” for the sorceress. This name is what I named my sorceress at the time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screen-name-significance/164897.md?page=2)