# Story Behind Your SD "Handle"?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-behind-your-sd-handle/400771
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 19, 2007, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-behind-your-sd-handle/400771 "2007-04-19T11:09:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@BACI](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BACI)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-behind-your-sd-handle/400771/1 "2007-04-19T11:09:09Z")
I’ve been lurking for a few years now. Have made the occasional post and have always wondered…why people chose their particular SD names.
Some are obvious, some are imaginative but easy to get, others must have _some_ meaning behind their choice.
I’m just kind of curious to know. If your handle has a story behind it, care to share?
Thanks
M
PS Baci was a much loved Siamese cat who blessed me with his presence for about 12 years. It’s nice that his memory can be perpetuated in some way by me adopting his name for these boards.
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-behind-your-sd-handle/400771/2 "2007-04-19T11:45:27Z")
I was feeling lazy the day I signed up and didn’t want to try to create a clever screen name. I went to my bookshelf, pulled a book off of it at random and took the main character from it. That book was _The Man who Never Missed_ by Steve Perry.
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### Author:  [@pretend\_my\_name\_is\_witty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pretend_my_name_is_witty)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-behind-your-sd-handle/400771/3 "2007-04-19T11:49:48Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji]
I was feeling lazy the day I signed up and didn’t want to try to create a clever screen name.
[/QUOTE]
Here, here.
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### Author:  [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-behind-your-sd-handle/400771/4 "2007-04-19T11:49:59Z")
It’s what my niece calls me.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-behind-your-sd-handle/400771/5 "2007-04-19T11:53:15Z")
I like food and I like trying new things to eat. Mange tout is French for (approximately) ‘Eats everything’. I myself am not French though.
Pre-emptively, no, I won’t be surprised to learn that people thought it was (or misread it as):
-Man get out
-Magnet out
-Mangetout in the sense of _immature peapod_
-Mangey trout
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### Author:  [@pretend\_my\_name\_is\_witty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pretend_my_name_is_witty)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-behind-your-sd-handle/400771/6 "2007-04-19T11:54:01Z")
[QUOTE=UncleRojelio]
It’s what my niece calls me.
[/QUOTE]
In the OTC, there are some awesome nicknames, and one of my personal favourites is “the robotron” or “the robotron 5000” for a particularly anal friend. He hates it, says he wants everyone to call him “Uncle Mike”.
Trouble is, he’s nineteen years old and a little creepy. I think it makes him sound like an internet groomer.
My Neice and Nephews call me Uncle Harry, but no-one else ever should unless talking to them!
Seems to work for you, though.
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### Author:  [@Puzzler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Puzzler)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-behind-your-sd-handle/400771/7 "2007-04-19T11:55:22Z")
I got to this board through another board I frequent. That board is (mainly) about riddles and puzzles. There, I “rised” to the level of “Uberpuzzler” (it’s post-count dependent).
When I came here, I thought about keeping that title, but the “uber” sounded a little pretentious. So, off went the uber, leaving Puzzler behind.
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### Author:  [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-behind-your-sd-handle/400771/8 "2007-04-19T12:03:16Z")
I narrowed it down to two names: _VunderBob_ and _The Hostile Amishman_, the first being a play on wunderbar, German for wonderful (and the punchline to a joke that I’ve forgotten).
In the end, I picked the first because it was easier to type and it fit well into my false egomaniac web personna.
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### Author:  [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-behind-your-sd-handle/400771/9 "2007-04-19T12:09:00Z")
I just use my first name.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-behind-your-sd-handle/400771/10 "2007-04-19T12:10:55Z")
[QUOTE=Struan]
I just use my first name.
[/QUOTE]
How is that pronounced?
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### Author:  [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-behind-your-sd-handle/400771/11 "2007-04-19T12:13:51Z")
Right around the time I joined, I noticed a poster named TaterTot, and said “MMMMM, I love tater tots!” At the time, I was really digging Philly Cheesesteaks too, so there you go.
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### Author:  [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-behind-your-sd-handle/400771/12 "2007-04-19T12:14:38Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout]
How is that pronounced?
[/QUOTE]
Strew-an, roughly, with a rolled “r” and short “a” that’s close to an “i”.
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### Author:  [@RumMunkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RumMunkey)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-behind-your-sd-handle/400771/13 "2007-04-19T12:15:38Z")
I just had to find something that wasn’t taken. RumMunkey is nonsensical. I tweaked the spelling of “Monkey” to match “Rum” to better my odds of uniqueness.
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### Author:  [@GawnFishin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GawnFishin)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-behind-your-sd-handle/400771/14 "2007-04-19T12:29:47Z")
A prize for anyone who can guess how I came by my user name.
[QUOTE=pretend my name is witty]
My Neice and Nephews call me **Uncle Harry** , but no-one else ever should unless talking to them!
[/QUOTE]
Why would they do that if your name is Witty? 😕 😃
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### Author:  [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-behind-your-sd-handle/400771/15 "2007-04-19T12:38:02Z")
There was a band I was in about 15 years ago. We were trying to come up with a band name. I told a friend of ours we were considering buns2000. He said that would date pretty soon so we should go with buns3000. We called ourselves Baked instead.
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### Author:  [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-behind-your-sd-handle/400771/16 "2007-04-19T12:38:14Z")
I’m afraid mine’s not terribly imaginative in terms of being unique to the Dope, as I’m known as Mindfield pretty much wherever I go. The nick itself was simply the result of a brainstorming session back in early '98 on band names from which I would hopefully pick one to label my music with. Unfortunately, it didn’t quite turn out that way, as it ended up that there formed some local rock band in the US with that name, as well as some kind of band in Scotland with it as well. And then I discovered that The Prodigy (not a band I was particularly aware of at the time) had released a song called “Mindfields” in '97, so that pretty much wrapped it up for any hopes of using it as a band name. So, I just kept it as an alias for the 'net.
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### Author:  [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-behind-your-sd-handle/400771/17 "2007-04-19T12:46:34Z")
[QUOTE=buns3000]
There was a band I was in about 15 years ago. We were trying to come up with a band name. I told a friend of ours we were considering buns2000. He said that would date pretty soon so we should go with buns3000. We called ourselves Baked instead.
[/QUOTE]
Shouldn’t _instead_ be capitalised?
_snirk_
Mine?
Just a play on common sense, which everyone claims is dead these days. So I went with uncommon sense which is the new common sense…I think.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-behind-your-sd-handle/400771/18 "2007-04-19T12:47:57Z")
**Cal Meacham** is the name of the Tall, Dark, and Handsome deep-voiced hero of the 1950s movie **This Island Earth**. Besides being a Ph.D. scientist, he also flies jet planes and ends up fighting a Bug-Eyed Monster.(And played by a guy named Rex Reason – could you _ask_ for a better name for a movie scientist?) It’s everything I could want. I got the “scientist” part down OK, but I’ve been having trougle with the rest.
Actually, I prefer the version in Raymond F. Jones’ original stories and novel. The movie sadly jettisoned the plot of the book, and managed to screw it up where it did follow it, and never even explained what the hell the title meant. Read it if you get the chance. You’ll find out that the interociter is a lot more than a triangular TV screen with a built-in zapper.
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### Author:  [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-behind-your-sd-handle/400771/19 "2007-04-19T12:59:12Z")
My username is the result of my first name taking on diminutive forms that slowly deviated well past the original form. Now it just looks like fake Japanese, but it’s cute. I also use it almost everywhere for the sake of convenience.
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### Author:  [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2007, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-behind-your-sd-handle/400771/20 "2007-04-19T13:03:27Z")
Because I truly am the Goddess of Wisdom. And where else would you expect me to hang out?
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