# What does your Straight Dope nickname mean? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 2, 2000, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-straight-dope-nickname-mean/43761 "2000-12-02T22:38:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Lowellster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2bfe46/32.png) [@Lowellster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lowellster)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-straight-dope-nickname-mean/43761/121 "2000-12-05T18:57:26Z")
Mine means that my real name (Lowell) was already taken. And the bastard never even uses it! I must agree that Sue Duhnym is pure genius. Can’t believe I didn’t catch it before Sue’s post prompted me to think about it a little. I’d like to see jjjfishe pop in here. What IS up with all of those j’s? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-straight-dope-nickname-mean/43761/122 "2000-12-05T20:06:35Z")
**AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!** I’ve been trying to find out what the heck ‘flodnak’ means FORVER!!! **AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!** I held a contest to find out if anyone could ID my handle. Gravity finally did it. I’ve got a prize for her but I keep forgetting to mail it. Really Grav…it’s um…in the mail! Jonathan Chance was originally the character Tommy Shaw played in the Styx LP _Kilroy Was Here_. I used it on the spur of the moment for a D&D character and it became the best character I ever had. But I adopted it for my handle here and abroad because there came a time in my life where I was really on top of things. I had my career _nailed_. I was in control and running the show. If a decision needed to be made I was the one who made it and I was glad to do it. Then I realized that all that control wasn’t all that much fun. It’s better to leave some drift in your life. Let those random events intrude. They can enlighten and entertain if you don’t get too worked up about them. > [@](#): > > _U2, Zoo Station_ > Ready for the shuffle, ready for the deal > Ready to let go of the steering wheel or > [@](#): > > _Rush, Roll the Bones_ > Why are we here? Because we’re here > Roll the bones > Why does it happen? Because it happens > Roll the bones It seemed so much more profound when I thought of it. ---
**Author:** ![idiotboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@idiotboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/idiotboy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-straight-dope-nickname-mean/43761/123 "2000-12-05T20:17:48Z")
uhhhh…I can’t remember… 😛 Oh yeah, there was a coffee shop here in COWlumbus, Ohio called Idiot Boy Cafe. It was open 24 hours, and I lived there more than in my apartment. Sadly, the shop closed down several years ago, so my moniker remains as a monument to that most wonderful of meeting places without which, I would never have met the love of my life, [Katie](http://www.geocities.com/jerkwaterjive420/us.jpg)! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-straight-dope-nickname-mean/43761/124 "2000-12-05T21:23:07Z")
It’s my favorite element of heraldry, used in coats of arms and on flags. One of the better known examples of the saltire is [St. Patrick’s Cross.](http://www.connect.ie/users/morley/cross.htm) Actually, St. Andrew’s Cross is better known, but I’m of Irish descent, so I skipped over the Scottish saint. Hey, lolagranola, you still have a tattoo of Dan Fogerburp on your tuckus? ---
**Author:** ![Simetra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-straight-dope-nickname-mean/43761/125 "2000-12-05T21:33:48Z")
Seen this thread pop up again and again. I left it alone, but thought I finally might as well post where my name’s from. It’s really easy. Simetra ==\> Artemis. Has a lotta personal meaning. I shan’t go into it. At least now you know where I got the name. As if you cared after the third page. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![monkeylucifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@monkeylucifer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monkeylucifer)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-straight-dope-nickname-mean/43761/126 "2000-12-05T22:44:44Z")
My friends and I were all obsessed with monkeys, and deemed all things monkey-like to be cooler than all get out. My friend Greg was the first to point out that we should all have uber-secret monkey names, and so he was the very first to be named, and he was “monkey adam” and his girlfriend was named “monkey eve” because it seemed the right thing to do. I was next in the naming, and since I had been kicked out of Greg’s house for reasons unknown to us, I was given the name “monkey lucifer” as I had been forced out of paradise. We were silly teenagers, but I can **ALWAYS** find use the name online, because it’s never taken. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![stargazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@stargazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stargazer)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-straight-dope-nickname-mean/43761/127 "2000-12-05T23:28:31Z")
mine’s pretty basic – I’m a (very) amateur astronomer. That, and I really like stargazer lilies. And my roommate is going to be a star someday – just you watch. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![B\_to\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ba0ec/32.png) [@B\_to\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B_to_B)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-straight-dope-nickname-mean/43761/128 "2000-12-05T23:37:53Z")
Business to Business It’s a web term for people who sell wholesale online. ---
**Author:** ![LCP2972](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@LCP2972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LCP2972)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2000, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-straight-dope-nickname-mean/43761/129 "2000-12-05T23:40:18Z")
Ok …mine is lame,I know it,but its one of the few things I can remember regularly enough to use as a username anywhere,its my initials and the day and year of my birth, just no month, please dont flame me for lameness I just forget stuff ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-straight-dope-nickname-mean/43761/130 "2000-12-06T00:04:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tubagirl \* > \*\*OK, so mine isn’t so cool. I have played the Tuba since 1991 when I was in the sixth grade. There aren’t many tuba players that are female out there. When I got my first email address in 1994 (with hotmail) I got tubagirl bcause that is what all the kids in school refrenced me as. > > “that girl who plays the tuba.” or “that tuba girl” \*\* Boy, do I know that feeling! I played tuba since the sixth grade as well, but that was back in 1975. I was the first female tuba player in the history of my high school. My nick comes from a character I created for a story on a BBS. ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-straight-dope-nickname-mean/43761/131 "2000-12-06T00:25:53Z")
It’s the nickname that Nightscream used to have for Blackarachnia on “Transformers: Beast Machines.” Yes, I’m a cartoonaholic. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lemming](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ccd318/32.png) [@Lemming](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemming)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-straight-dope-nickname-mean/43761/132 "2000-12-06T00:40:06Z")
My name is also similar to my AOL screenname (Lemming104) and, if it’s still available, I take it on every BBS and email server I use. Failing that, I just take my AOL screenname for consistency. Obviously, both are inspired by the old computer game, Lemmings, and I just found that oddly appropriate–the little guys were downright aggravating at times. ---
**Author:** ![mongrel\_8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@mongrel\_8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mongrel_8)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-straight-dope-nickname-mean/43761/133 "2000-12-06T01:15:48Z")
Well I tried to start a thread just like this not too long ago but it got to 16 replys and stalled so here is the link to [it here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=48403) Anywho I got my nickname from junior high wrestling because my last name is Mongler and I was pretty scrappy like a mongrel dog. 8 is just my favorite number. I have, however, been thinking about changing my nickname to something cooler. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-straight-dope-nickname-mean/43761/134 "2000-12-06T02:03:39Z")
It’s the name of my number one (of three) cat. I got all their names from sci-fi books so consequently I have no idea how to pronounce it. But it’s never taken and my family can easily remember me. I am **so glad** that I stopped using my old name a while back because it has connotations of which I was in no way aware of when I started going online-my brother gave it to me because of an old video game, long before I got a computer. I don’t think I would have lasted an hour here with it. [sub]It was Pit Troll…really.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![LifeWillFall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@LifeWillFall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeWillFall)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-straight-dope-nickname-mean/43761/135 "2000-12-06T02:14:40Z")
well it’s a little on the pessamistic side. back when the internet gaming zone just started (before it was implemented in the web browser) I was trying to choose a nickname. They had this horrible policy of letting people register as many names as they wanted. So after trying about 20 nicks I got extremely frustrated and just put the first 3 words that fit together. I usually use RubberZucky for my internet nick cause my last name is Zucker and it’s better than Mother Zucker (my friends all seem to like this one - no I’m not a mother - I’m an 18 year old male college student) Now that you have way more information than you needed I’ll end this post ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-straight-dope-nickname-mean/43761/136 "2000-12-06T02:14:57Z")
Skuggi is an Icelandic word meaning “shadow.” I added some letters on to make it more interesting, plus it kind of adds to how this relates to my personality. I don’t feel like explaining the connection it has to my personality, but originally I picked it because I loved the sound and look of the word. ---
**Author:** ![jessicala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@jessicala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jessicala)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-straight-dope-nickname-mean/43761/137 "2000-12-06T02:39:18Z")
Really boring. First letter of first name = ‘J’ First two letters of last name = “La” “J” + “La” when pronounced became JayLa. For some reason it makes some people think I’m male. Years ago I used the name “michon” (the “mich” is pronounced as in Michelle) and have been toying with the idea of going back to it. ---
**Author:** ![Gaspode](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gaspode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaspode)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-straight-dope-nickname-mean/43761/138 "2000-12-06T02:41:34Z")
“Gaspode. Named after the famous Gaspode.” Quote form a talking dog in Pratchett’s ‘Moving Pictures’ and several others. Most people won’t believe that Gaspode is talking even when they hear him, which seemed somehow appropriate for SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-straight-dope-nickname-mean/43761/139 "2000-12-07T05:45:48Z")
Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo – a rather eclectic, five kilometer long strip that includes oddball stores, cool pubs, hole-in-the-wall bookstores, and so on. It’s a bright spot in my hometown, a place that’s seen better days. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-straight-dope-nickname-mean/43761/140 "2000-12-07T06:06:33Z")
I really like Jeeps 😃 , so I felt like that was an obvious first choice for my user name. I added the Phoenix part because I joined here after being involved in a really bad flame war in another forum/message board. Plus it sounds pretty cool. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-straight-dope-nickname-mean/43761.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-straight-dope-nickname-mean/43761.md?page=8)