# What does your username mean? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 9, 2018, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069 "2018-09-09T21:39:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Map\_Ylow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/map_ylow/32/85_2.png) [@Map\_Ylow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Map_Ylow)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/241 "2018-09-14T06:32:53Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > There was also that line JFK’s speech writer borrowed for his inauguration speech, “Ask not what your country can do for you…” So? What _can_ it do for me? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/242 "2018-09-14T07:45:12Z")
> [@Map\_Ylow](#): > > So? What _can_ it do for me? IDK. AskNott. Or SNFaulkner. ---
**Author:** ![Brayne\_Ded](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Brayne\_Ded](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brayne_Ded)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/243 "2018-09-14T07:49:50Z")
I took my name from the results of a CAT scan. My doctor was Nigel Molesworth, and he still has not learnt to spell. Neither have I. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/244 "2018-09-14T08:04:06Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Depends if you’re the server or the client ;). Or if you work in SAP, which refers to servers as clients :smack: ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/245 "2018-09-14T14:02:04Z")
Wasn’t sure if this was a new thread or not. Seems it is. I’m a big guy, both in height and girth, and my name starts with a T. It’s kinda a faux rapper style name that my cousin calls me. (She usually just calls me “T,” but that was too short, and Tee was already taken.) ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/246 "2018-09-14T14:05:09Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Oh _that_ one. You know, this snfaulker shit is like the joke that started out funny, then got really stale, then got funny again. Its back to its staleness now. So keep it up! Its humor is bound to return! 😉 I concur. Regards, S.N. Faulkner ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/247 "2018-09-14T14:06:39Z")
> [@ioioio](#): > > My username is **ioioio** because **io** is not searchable, and \*\*ioio \*\*just seems stupid. “And ioioio, by priests and people sungen.” ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/248 "2018-09-14T14:19:08Z")
When I was in high school we had an intramural softball tournament. All the teams needed to come up with a team name, so we had all the ‘usual suspects’ (Giants, Yankees, etc.)…and one team (not mine) that named itself “The Suburban Plankton”. A decade or so later, when I needed a screen name, that fact for some reason bubbled up top the front of my brain, and I went with it. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/249 "2018-09-14T14:41:01Z")
For some reason it makes me think of really, really orderly plankton. Lots and lots and lots of plankton, getting organized in little squares and cubes and… and then a stream hits and they have to realign again. ---
**Author:** ![laurieb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/51bf81/32.png) [@laurieb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/laurieb)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/250 "2018-09-14T18:53:39Z")
Laurie is my nickname (my full name is Laura). The B stands for my middle name. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/251 "2018-09-14T19:10:03Z")
It seemed to fit. _Silenus was a companion and tutor to the wine god Dionysus. He was the old rustic god of the dance of the wine-press, his name being derived from the words seiô, “to move to and fro,” and lênos, “the wine-trough.” He was also the **god of drunkenness** who rode in the train of Dionysus seated on the back of a donkey._ ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/252 "2018-09-14T19:13:45Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > I concur. > > Regards, > S.N. Faulkner Okay, _that_ was funny. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/253 "2018-09-14T20:54:06Z")
I’d stumbled in more than once based on a search. Then I lurked a bit and occasionally thought about joining. One day there was a piece of ignorance just hanging there in a thread about tanks across multiple posts. That was the day I decided to join Since I use different names for everything on the internet that left the question wide open. I was already thinking about tanks staring at a blank on the registration page. I’d started my career on the M60A3 in it’s last years in service. One of the little bits of slang from the period when both it and the Abrams were in service was calling Abrams crew jedi tankers. Those of us riding around on the older “dinosaurs” were **dinoriders**. I was also just waiting for my retirement orders at that point. Nothing like the Army to make you feel as ancient as a dinosaur in your mid 40s. IIRC by the time I got done registering someone who knew what they were talking about like ExTank or Loach had come along. I don’t think I even posted in the thread that prompted finally registering. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/254 "2018-09-15T00:36:36Z")
It’s my profession. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/255 "2018-09-15T05:12:10Z")
Celtic Knot is the name of our acoustic Celtic folk band. We have tried to get S.N.Faulkner to be our drummer, but the negotiations have broken down. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/256 "2018-09-15T11:09:16Z")
I realize I have never answered the OP. I stole the name Dr. Fidelius (charatan and mender of sore knees) from a Jack Vance novel years ago, used it as a Usenet username. It amused me. When I became involved in Steampunk he became a Professor of Applied Paleontology at Miskatonic U, curator of the Anomalous Collection, and current holder of the Carl Denham chair for Cryptid Defense Strategies (with a grant from the SN Faulkner trust). ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/257 "2018-09-15T12:04:13Z")
> [@sisu](#): > > Some say that Sisu stands for the Finnish philosophy that what must be done will be done, regardless of what it takes. Sisu is a special strength and persistent determination and resolve to continue and overcome in the moment of adversity…an almost magical quality, a combination of stamina, perseverance, courage, and determination held in reserve for hard times. > > But the secret is that it is Finnish for S N Faulkner… I’ve heard it defined as “intestinal fortitude”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/258 "2018-09-15T14:26:50Z")
Stolen from a sign on the back of a semi-truck, something about disconnecting the dummy gladhands before moving or somesuch. Pretty sure S.N. Faulkner was listed on the door as owner/operator. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/259 "2018-09-15T16:39:59Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > … As a lad, I read the dictionary, and I liked finding odd facts. When friends were asked stuff like, “What the Hell’s a Stirling Engine?”, they’d say, “I dunno, ask Nott!” And I’d know the answer. There was also that line JFK’s speech writer borrowed for his inauguration speech, “Ask not what your country can do for you…” I also read encyclopedias cover-to-cover when I was a kid. I didn’t read dictionaries cover-to-cover, but did read all the appendices in _Webster’s Collegiate_. It took some Googling but I think I found [the JFK speech you mention.](https://www.youtube.com/v/VLsKmk8WaSM?version=3&start=383&end=391&autoplay=1) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/260 "2018-09-15T19:29:14Z")
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