# The "Whats the deal with your name?" Thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211>\
**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:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211/121 "2002-07-22T03:11:59Z")

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I run a QC Lab for a plastics manufacturer. Its about 110 degrees on the plant floor during the summer, but the Lab must maintain 70 degrees & 50% RH, so naturally the production guys are jealous of our “cooler” status, hence their name for us.

I also own two Labs, one black & a new yellow pup, but had the moniker before them (although I pick up their “trash” quite often !)

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**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211/122 "2002-07-22T18:50:42Z")

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Let’s try that again (sorry if it double posts). “Elwood” is a _Blues Brothers_ reference and I go to Syracuse University.

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**Author:** ![\_Roger\_the\_Shrubber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/977dab/32.png) [@\_Roger\_the\_Shrubber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Roger_the_Shrubber)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211/123 "2002-07-22T22:51:26Z")

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Roger the Shrubber is a character in Monty Python who’s onscreen for about three and a half seconds. My friends have a collectively British sense of humor, and whenever somebody needs a screenname for something and asks the others for suggestions, Roger the Shrubber is invariably the advice that no one ever takes. So I took it. Sadly, someone else already had **Roger the Shrubber** first, and rather than be Rodger the Shrubber [I mean honestly, that ‘d’ just looks absurd] I stuck the most useless ATL code in the word up front instead.

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**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whats-the-deal-with-your-name-thread/119211/124 "2002-07-22T23:11:35Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Tim R. Mortiss \*  
> **Well, mine is a double reference. There is an old poem (circa 1500?) by William Dunbar called “Lament of the Makers” with the recurring line "timor mortis conturbat me"**

That’s a common refrain in medieval poetry, I think.

My handle, of course, comes from Gilbert and Sullivan’s _The Mikado_ – it’s the name of the scary middle-aged lady who’s after the dashing tenor hero. It doesn’t suit my personality at all, though, so I’m thinking of changing it…

BTW, I always thought **Seven** was a Voyager fan. 😉

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