# What does your user name mean? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 14, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-user-name-mean/213158 "2003-11-14T02:14:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MonkeyMule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-user-name-mean/213158/21 "2003-11-14T05:41:07Z")
Biblo, youdo what you have to I shall dance in the corner while i fling…stuff oh and if you can’t figgure out the user name I can’t help you dolt ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-user-name-mean/213158/22 "2003-11-14T05:42:17Z")
I’ve told this before, but… Way back when, after graduating from college but before getting a _real_ job, I worked a summer at Blondie’s Pizza in Berkeley, CA. The astonishingly cheap (and staggeringly wealthy) owner of the shop had long since given up on buying nametags for his rapidly-turning-over staff, so the manager handed me a nametag that had belonged to a long-ago employee, and instructed me to make a Dymo label to put over the name. I was allowed to use any name I wanted, so instead of putting my name, I put the tag’s name: “Nametag.” Years later, I got my first internet access account (eWorld, how I miss thee!). When selecting my user name, my thoughts hearkened back to those halcyon days of pizza-slinging and grinding poverty. I’ve been using the same handle ever since. ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-user-name-mean/213158/23 "2003-11-14T05:44:20Z")
Love/hate… Sanguine (fave color) Spider (how I hate those eight-legged creepy crawlies) ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-user-name-mean/213158/24 "2003-11-14T05:49:50Z")
2.35:1 ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-user-name-mean/213158/25 "2003-11-14T05:55:40Z")
Torie is my real name. Short for Victoria Zoe. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-user-name-mean/213158/26 "2003-11-14T06:13:52Z")
Mine is a Jimi Hendrix song. (I keep posting this cuz everyone thinks it’s some sexual reference…) “Now if a 6 turned out to be 9 I don’t mind. I don’t mind.” i.e. if everything was turned upside down (like earlier tonight on the SDMB…) it’s cool! I’ll just deal with the new situation… "I tip my hat to the new constitution take a bow for the new revolution smile and grin at the change all around pick up my guitar and play **just like yesterday**" Like someone ELSES actions are going to harsh my mellow! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![gouda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-user-name-mean/213158/27 "2003-11-14T07:14:46Z")
Aged suitably, the world’s best cheese. It’s stuff like this that makes life worth living. ---
**Author:** ![Sinek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Sinek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinek)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-user-name-mean/213158/28 "2003-11-14T08:12:08Z")
My name’s just something random that’s been floating around in my head for the last few days. Hmm…that should probably worry me 😃 . No clue as to what it really means. I think it’s something along the lines of ‘bad bird’. ---
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-user-name-mean/213158/29 "2003-11-14T08:22:10Z")
Darkhold As in ‘strong’ hold. Based off a short story I wrote about the last stronghold on a demon invaded land. Also b/c it invokes the image in my mind of a person holding a swirling darkness in his hands. And finally don’t we all hold darkness within us? (ok ok cut me some damn slack I made it up when I was 13.) ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-user-name-mean/213158/30 "2003-11-14T08:46:50Z")
Zoe=medium-bodied, crisp, dry with spicy character. Strong, long-lived, fresh, rare, luscious. Slightly bitter. Oh, wait! That’s the wine I’m drinking… ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-user-name-mean/213158/31 "2003-11-14T08:50:38Z")
Summarizes my pesonality in a nutshell, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![spogga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-user-name-mean/213158/32 "2003-11-14T08:53:10Z")
UK slang for chewing gum=spogga, my initials PK=chewing gum brand made by Wrigleys. How many more times do you need telling? ;0 ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-user-name-mean/213158/33 "2003-11-14T08:54:00Z")
Im thinking mine is fairly obvious 😉 ---
**Author:** ![utkik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e8c25b/32.png) [@utkik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/utkik)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-user-name-mean/213158/34 "2003-11-14T09:23:01Z")
mine is Swedish for ‘lookout’. I took it from one of my favourite books - The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby. Fantastic read. ---
**Author:** ![GSV\_Consolation\_of\_Dreams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f1d935/32.png) [@GSV\_Consolation\_of\_Dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GSV_Consolation_of_Dreams)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-user-name-mean/213158/35 "2003-11-14T09:25:17Z")
Mine’s a ship name I made up for Iain M Banks’s “Culture” series of SF books. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-user-name-mean/213158/36 "2003-11-14T11:33:12Z")
I didn’t wanna HHG/python/discworld/Scalar-weapons tag. Wintermute seemed a bit overblown (is it taken?), and being pink and small. For those still clueless… [http://www.clangers.co.uk/](http://www.clangers.co.uk/) ---
**Author:** ![Lars\_Aruns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Lars\_Aruns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lars_Aruns)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-user-name-mean/213158/37 "2003-11-14T11:49:02Z")
Mine was the name of an Etruscan prince that, according to historians, ruled over Rome in its archaic phase. He was defeated by a coalition of Latin cities in the battle of Lake Regillus about four or five centuries before Christ; but his descendants remained in Rome and got a significant number of magistracies under the Republic. The name is not really adequate for me, but it sounds nice. Did anyone spot I’m a history geek? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![big\_yellow\_kingswood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@big\_yellow\_kingswood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/big_yellow_kingswood)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-user-name-mean/213158/38 "2003-11-14T11:53:59Z")
I drive one of these. Well, used to. I had to take it to the knackers a few weeks ago cause 30 years of rust meant that I couldn’t re-register it. ---
**Author:** ![danixa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@danixa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danixa)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-user-name-mean/213158/39 "2003-11-14T11:59:50Z")
my name’s actually daniela, and when i was younger my older brother and sister took “juvenile delinquent” and somehow turned it into “juvenile danixa”. strange. ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-user-name-mean/213158/40 "2003-11-14T12:25:13Z")
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