# The "Whats the deal with your name?" Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 16, 2002, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211 "2002-07-16T09:42:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Broodha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@Broodha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broodha)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211/61 "2002-07-17T12:48:36Z")
My username has no deeper significance - just a word play of “brood” and “Buddha”. Kinda silly, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![crazy4chaucer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@crazy4chaucer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazy4chaucer)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211/62 "2002-07-17T13:24:14Z")
I like Geoffrey Chaucer. A lot! Guess you could say I was crazy for him. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Zappo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b3f665/32.png) [@Zappo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zappo)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211/63 "2002-07-17T13:45:52Z")
It’s a corruption of one of my nicknames from college, “Zippo.” My shtick was to carry a lighter with me when going out so I could light girls’ cigarettes as a conversation starter. When I signed up for the SDMB, I couldn’t get “Zippo” or any of the several alternatives I tried, so I ended up with “Zappo” and it seems to have stuck. ---
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211/64 "2002-07-17T13:57:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by blink178 \* > \*\*Being as uncreative as I am, and fearing that I would forget my username and password, my login name for almost everything is Blink178 and the password is the same. > Dumb, I know. \*\* Actually, “Dumb” is letting the world know your login and passwords. You might think about changing your passwords now. Everywhere. -Belrix (paranoid Unix system administrator) ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211/65 "2002-07-17T13:59:54Z")
Don’t think we know his PW - by “the same” I thought he meant he used the same PW for everything, which of course _is_ dumb. :\> ---
**Author:** ![Debaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Debaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debaser)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211/66 "2002-07-17T16:24:39Z")
Debaser is a song by the Pixies. Plus, it sounds cool. ---
**Author:** ![Allen\_Parine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/57b2e6/32.png) [@Allen\_Parine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Allen_Parine)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211/67 "2002-07-17T19:16:42Z")
Allen Parine was an NPC in an AD& **G** campaign I ran years and years ago. It was a tossup between that and Creamy Mami, simply because I happened to be watching it on DVD at the time. I decided to go with the name that no one would recognize, but would cause the least gender confusion. ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211/68 "2002-07-17T19:49:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bristlesage \* > \*\*Well, I’m from Las Vegas. No, really! Born here by parents who were born here…and my father’s parents were also born here (Mom’s parents imported from PA). So, I’m a Nevadan through and through. > > Nevada’s state tree (Hey, shut up! We have trees!): the **bristle** cone pine. Nevada’s state flower: **sage** brush (Hey, shut up; it blooms!). Ta-da, instant username. \*\* LOL! **bristlesage** , you sound like one of us native (and near-native) Arizonans: No, it’s not all desert. Yes, it snows where I live. Yes, it also gets very cold. :rolleyes: Yes, it also gets very hot. I can stand the heat because _I grew up here without air conditioning_! ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211/69 "2002-07-18T01:28:25Z")
I picked **5 Time Champ** , because I could. In 2001 I became a 5 time undefeated Jeopardy! champion with winnings of $50,703 and a 2002 Chevy Tahoe. ---
**Author:** ![owlofcreamcheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@owlofcreamcheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlofcreamcheese)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211/70 "2002-07-18T02:12:24Z")
someone’s misspelling of Bowl of CreamCheese ---
**Author:** ![Sivalensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Sivalensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sivalensis)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211/71 "2002-07-18T02:33:11Z")
i was an anthro major in college. i was studying primate morphology one semester and had to pick a species to do a paper on. the species i picked was sivapithecus sivalensis - a species of fossil ape from the miocene era (i forget when this was…maybe 10 million years ago) of pakistan. at the beginning, i tried to use sivapithecus, but get this…it was taken!!! so i’m sivalensis, and that’s what i use for most of the sites now. ---
**Author:** ![auliya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/90db22/32.png) [@auliya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auliya)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211/72 "2002-07-18T02:54:34Z")
My first post… this looked like a good place to jump in. Auliya means female on the left hand of God or God’s handmaiden in the Zensunni warriors religion on Arrakis (Frank Herbert’s Dune) It also means friend, helper, supporter, protector etc, in Islam. I bit odd for an atheist I suppose… but I liked it. On the G’Dope board they made me use 2 Y’s ☹ ---
**Author:** ![xcheopis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bc8723/32.png) [@xcheopis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xcheopis)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211/73 "2002-07-18T03:23:38Z")
[_Xenopsylla cheopis_](http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/plague/cheob6x4.htm). ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211/74 "2002-07-18T03:55:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Recursion \* > \*\*There was the day that I first truly understood MergeSort and QuickSort. It was the day the Earth shook, a day that would mark my life forever. It was a way to do so much with a relatively small function. Divide and Conquer! The idea behind _recursion_ is absolutely awe-inspiring! I have, on many occasions told my fellow computer-programmers-in-training how truly astonishing the idea of recursion is. > > Hey, cut me some slack! I used to program in BASIC, and even the idea of functions is pretty jaw-dropping to someone who had only programmed in spaghetti-code, GOTO-statment BASIC all his life! \*\* You gonna change your name when you run into dynamic programming? 😉 [sub]Actually, look it up. It’s way cool, and can blow recursion out of the water sometimes.[/sub] The source of my name is described [here](http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/ultrafilter). Believe it or not, someone actually recognized where it was from. ---
**Author:** ![Soup\_du\_jour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Soup\_du\_jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_du_jour)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211/75 "2002-07-18T04:43:48Z")
A few years back, there was a show on ABC that was doomed from conception: _It’s Like…You Know_. Anyhoop, I saw a teaser for an episode that went something like this. A man is sitting in a restaurant… > [@](#): > > Waiter- > “And what would you like, sir.” > > Male Star of Show- > “I don’t know. What’s the soup du jour?” > > W- > “It’s the soup of the day.” > > MSoS- > “I know _THAT_…” > > W- > “Then why’d you ask?” > > Me- > “Ha ha ha ha. _sniff_” It had me in stitches for weeks. Because most places require spaces in usernames to be replaced with underscores, that’s where they came from. The diminuative, which many dopers have figured out already, is simply **Soup**. Unfortunately, when I registered, there already was a **Soup** , which was my first choice. ☹ Oh well. It’s recognizable and original, which is all I can ask. -Soup ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211/76 "2002-07-18T05:03:20Z")
My name is Andy and I am a girl. Actually, my real first name isn’t Andy, although I’ll answer to either one IRL. My middle name is Anderson. ---
**Author:** ![Banger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@Banger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banger)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211/77 "2002-07-18T05:26:54Z")
I have no idea what the deal with my name is. I must have been drunk when I made it. ---
**Author:** ![bristlesage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@bristlesage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bristlesage)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211/78 "2002-07-18T05:39:21Z")
:::Hijack begin::: Ah, **Squish** , I _am_ one of you. Except from Nevada. But I sure do get tired of explaining to people what the desert is really like. Only a couple of differences: it doesn’t snow where I live (not very often, anyway), and it is all desert. Unless it’s mountains, but they’re pretty much desert. But it doesn’t mean it’s a dead state! :::Hijack end::: ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211/79 "2002-07-18T06:35:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lsura \* > \*\* > > So, you’re not in Maine, are you? I went to college with a woman named Seven. \*\* Nope. note me. Signed, **Mr** Seven Graylands 😉 heh heh ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211/80 "2002-07-18T07:00:26Z")
The day before I registered on my preferred message board, my fiancee and I had diner in restaurant Dragon Phoenix in Singapore. I liked the name. When I registered on this one (much) later, I kept the name as my handle. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211.md?page=5)