# What do Dopers' names make you think of? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 15, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-dopers-names-make-you-think-of/68944 "2001-06-15T15:25:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [June 15, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-dopers-names-make-you-think-of/68944/1 "2001-06-15T15:25:29Z")
When I see certain posters’ names, I get an associated impression in my mind. I don’t mean an association with the person himself or herself, but a third-party, irrelevant impression. In my case, it’s a song (or even a snippet of music or a lyric). **Persephone** - Bob Dylan’s “Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again”. Why, you ask? Cause her name kind of fits in the chorus, at least metrically: “Stuck inside of Straight Dope with Persephone again” **Jack Batty** - Eminem’s “Slim Shady” song. “I’m Jack Batty, you know the real Jack Batty, you know those other Jack Battys are just imitating…” **TroubleAgain** - Grateful Dead’s “Casey Jones”; specifically, this lyric: “Trouble ahead, oh, lady in red/Take my advice, you’d be better off dead.” **CrankyAsAnOldMan** - The Beatles’ “Baby, you’re a rich man”. “Cranky as an old man, cranky as an old man, cranky as an old man, too…” **jarbabyj** - Sheryl Crow’s “Run baby run” - “jarbaby, jarbaby, jarbaby…” Ok, so that might be more easily understood if you heard the song… Oh, what a twisted cerebellum… Anyway, what associations do you make in YOUR mind with the names of your fellow Dopers? ---
**Author:** ![Starbury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Starbury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starbury)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-dopers-names-make-you-think-of/68944/2 "2001-06-15T19:59:48Z")
I always read **Padeye’s** name as **Popeye**. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-dopers-names-make-you-think-of/68944/3 "2001-06-15T20:14:17Z")
Oddly enough, I’m not even the “real” Jack Batty. I got the name from a National Lampoon article about fictional band names (Cowboy Bob and the Jackbatties), but there are several actual Jack Batty’s about, most prominently a spokesman for GE. What’s also ironic is that I think Eminem is frickin’ moron. By the way, I dug up this little gem of a [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=48936) as a companion piece. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2001, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-dopers-names-make-you-think-of/68944/4 "2001-06-15T22:45:38Z")
Thanks, **Jack** - great thread! Might explain a little why few have posted in here. Of course, I guess this thread probably got bumped to the third page by now… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-dopers-names-make-you-think-of/68944/5 "2001-06-15T23:50:31Z")
I am REALLY REALLY REALLY sorry about this but jarbabyj’s name always makes me think back to this story I read in these books my grandmother bought back in the 30s. They were children’s stories. Some goops, some songs, aesops fables. And then there was one about a tarbaby. And this story, along with many others, had color illustrations and so did this one, and (I am so so sorry) but everytime I read this name the image pops into my head. Like a car crash you can’t forget you know? really really sorry ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-dopers-names-make-you-think-of/68944/6 "2001-06-15T23:55:24Z")
hardygrrl’s name always makes me think of the song Barbie Girl. She’ll probably kill me for saying that though 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-dopers-names-make-you-think-of/68944/7 "2001-06-15T23:55:32Z")
**brother rat** , if I were you I’d be sorry about that last post. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2001, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-dopers-names-make-you-think-of/68944/8 "2001-06-16T00:10:37Z")
**thinksnow** …makes me think of snow every time. Still not sure why. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2001, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-dopers-names-make-you-think-of/68944/9 "2001-06-16T00:21:56Z")
well, **dantheman** always reminds me of an old boss, who we called Dan the main man. I always read his name as Danthemainman too. Beyond that, I can’t think of any, though I know there are more. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2001, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-dopers-names-make-you-think-of/68944/10 "2001-06-16T00:26:39Z")
Why thank you, **Lsura**! (I think.) I really, really should change my screen name. It’s not clever, wacky, or descriptive. Plus I blame it for the death of drive-in theaters, chronic halitosis, the Mideast crisis, and the designated hitter rule in baseball. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2001, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-dopers-names-make-you-think-of/68944/11 "2001-06-16T01:49:19Z")
funny you should be the one starting this thread because **dantheman** reminds me of this guy named Dan that I had a torrid one-night-stand kind of thing with once. It was very unlike me at the time, but I was getting out from under a fog of months-long gloom and depression and I guess the stars were right for me to boink some big-dicked guy in a hot tub after a night of dancing. It’s not a bad association, but I do feel sheepish. Especially since I called him a few times after that, despite the fact that he clearly wanted nothing to do with me and I was way old enough to see the signs and know better. Before I add to this, maybe I should go read the thread Jack Batty dug up. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2001, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-dopers-names-make-you-think-of/68944/12 "2001-06-16T01:56:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CrankyAsAnOldMan \* > \*\*funny you should be the one starting this thread because **dantheman** reminds me of this guy named Dan that I had a torrid one-night-stand kind of thing with once. It was very unlike me at the time, but I was getting out from under a fog of months-long gloom and depression and I guess the stars were right for me to boink some big-dicked guy in a hot tub after a night of dancing. > > It’s not a bad association, but I do feel sheepish. Especially since I called him a few times after that, despite the fact that he clearly wanted nothing to do with me and I was way old enough to see the signs and know better. > > Before I add to this, maybe I should go read the thread Jack Batty dug up. \*\* :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2001, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-dopers-names-make-you-think-of/68944/13 "2001-06-16T02:37:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dantheman \* > \*\ ***TroubleAgain** - Grateful Dead’s “Casey Jones”; specifically, this lyric: “Trouble ahead, oh, lady in red/Take my advice, you’d be better off dead.” > > \*\* :eek: I don’t know that song…maybe I should look up the rest of the lyrics to see if I should be horrified! Anyway, **dantheman** , when I see your name, I think of a guy being lifted up on his teammates shoulders while they cheer “Dan the Man” over and over again… ---
**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:** [June 16, 2001, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-dopers-names-make-you-think-of/68944/14 "2001-06-16T02:41:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TroubleAgain \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by dantheman \* > > \*\ ***TroubleAgain** - Grateful Dead’s “Casey Jones”; specifically, this lyric: “Trouble ahead, oh, lady in red/Take my advice, you’d be better off dead.” > > > > \*\* > > :eek: I don’t know that song…maybe I should look up the rest of the lyrics to see if I should be horrified! > > Anyway, **dantheman** , when I see your name, I think of a guy being lifted up on his teammates shoulders while they cheer “Dan the Man” over and over again… \*\* Ooh, wait, here’s more: “Trouble ahead, trouble behind/And you know that notion just crossed my mind.” (It’s about a train engineer on cocaine… :)) Hm, maybe I shouldn’t change my name, since people seem to have such exalted impressions of me from it… ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2001, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-dopers-names-make-you-think-of/68944/15 "2001-06-16T03:05:00Z")
**ssskugiii** reminds me of a passage in Ellen Degeneres’ book _My Point (and I Do Have One)_ where she has a conversation with a character named Spoogy and it leads to “Who Stole the Cookies from the Cookie Jar.” Whenever I see **iampunha** ’s name, I always pronounce it to myself as “lampoonah.” **Fenris** makes me think of _Ferris Bueller’s Day Off_, specifically the part where “Save Ferris” is written on the water tower. **Sealemon88** makes me think of his website, especially the dancing portion. (That’s his website, right? “Ze’s Page”? Please tell me that’s his site, or else I feel like a dummy.) **Persephone** reminds me of my freshman year Geometry class. There were these two black girls who would do nothing but gossip, and they would always talk about a certain “Persephone” and her boyfriend. **pepperlandgirl** reminds me of the opening scene in _The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine_, where everything is happy and beautiful and the narrator is talking very _very_ slowly about Pepperland. **Vinnie Virginslayer** makes me think of Vinnie Barbarino from _Welcome Back, Kotter_. …I think that’s enough for now. ---
**Author:** ![Jeannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@Jeannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeannie)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2001, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-dopers-names-make-you-think-of/68944/16 "2001-06-16T03:21:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KKBattousai \* > \*\ ***thinksnow** …makes me think of snow every time. Still not sure why. \*\* For some reason, I always read **thinksnow** as “thinks now.” Now the name seems different. Also, for the longest time, I was reading **racinchikki** as **_rain_chikki**. I should probably start paying more attention… ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2001, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-dopers-names-make-you-think-of/68944/17 "2001-06-16T03:32:16Z")
I haven’t seen her around lately, but when I see the name **Tabithina** , I immediately feel like singing the theme song to “Oklahoma” except with her name in place of “Oklahoma” of course. And since **Jeannie** is the poster I saw right before I posted, her name reminds me of a girl I had a crush on in high school, and I picture her as a blonde with a ponytail and cute little freckles on her nose. I have no idea what the poster **Jeannie** really looks like though. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2001, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-dopers-names-make-you-think-of/68944/18 "2001-06-16T03:56:19Z")
**Anal Scurvy** makes me think of Anal Cunt, the worst band in the universe. ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2001, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-dopers-names-make-you-think-of/68944/19 "2001-06-16T04:16:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ruadh \* > \*\*hardygrrl’s name always makes me think of the song Barbie Girl. > > She’ll probably kill me for saying that though 😃 \*\* I’m not going to hurt you 🙂 \*\* because \*\* like I’ve posted in the usename threads,it’s based somewhat on Barbie Girl. One of my best friends made up a song called Hardy Girl to the tune of Barbie Girl to honor my Jeff Hardy fetish. The spelling of -girl to -grrl is to reflect my love for punk. As in the Riot Grrl movement… Back to the OP…everytime I see \*\* blur \*\* I get that song of theirs in my head…you know, the one that goes… \*\* WOO HOO !!!\*\* Can’t remember the name of the song though. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2001, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-dopers-names-make-you-think-of/68944/20 "2001-06-16T04:56:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hardygrrl \* > \*\*Back to the OP…everytime I see \*\* blur \*\* I get that song of theirs in my head…you know, the one that goes… > > \*\* WOO HOO !!!\*\* > > Can’t remember the name of the song though. \*\* I believe it’s called _Song 2_ or _Song No. 2_. Something like that. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-dopers-names-make-you-think-of/68944.md?page=2)