# 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:** 14
**Author:** ![tingbudong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tingbudong/32/520_2.png) [@tingbudong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tingbudong)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/261 "2018-09-15T19:38:09Z")
Mandarin for “I don’t understand”. I joined the board when I was living in China. Sent from my SM-G920W8 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/262 "2018-09-15T20:32:18Z")
^ What’s Canadian for “I don’t understand”? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/263 "2018-09-15T20:59:35Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > ^ What’s Canadian for “I don’t understand”? 🙂 “burpo” ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/264 "2018-09-15T21:03:16Z")
I was in the Army, in tanks, '86-'91. When I came up onto the internet in '98, I had to choose a screen name for my ISP. Couldn’t really think of anything else but “Extanker;” which was already taken, and “ExTanker36915” just didn’t have the same punch. But “ExTank” was wide open. And I’m too lazy/stupid to create/remember multiple usernames & screen names and such. ---
**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, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/265 "2018-09-15T22:32:38Z")
Favorite expletive of Captain Haddock, companion of **Tintin**. Introduced in “Tintin and the Crab with the Golden Claws”, he was the drunkard captain of the cargo ship ‘Karaboudjan’, which roughly translated means ‘Spirit of SN Faulkner’. I look a bit like him (but not as handsome). Here’s a pic: [![](https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180915/7b26fa202bdb84a01aa32fbbffee5803.png) ](https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180915/7b26fa202bdb84a01aa32fbbffee5803.png) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/266 "2018-09-15T22:40:55Z")
> [@tingbudong](#): > > Mandarin for “I don’t understand”. Also the part of a tingbu used in traditional Chinese medicine. ---
**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 15, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/267 "2018-09-15T23:21:03Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > ^ What’s Canadian for “I don’t understand”? 🙂 I’d guess “Eh?” ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/268 "2018-09-16T03:33:54Z")
Ooh, ooh, I know the answer to this one! Nuthin’. It’s a shortened version of **digger** , which, much like **digs** , is not my name. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/269 "2018-09-16T17:08:39Z")
I am not a number, I am a free man! I don’t know who is #1, but i would guess someone by the name of Faulkner Also, my name is Charles ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/270 "2018-09-16T17:54:57Z")
I am fond of the phenomenon known as alpenglow (first observed and noted by S. N. Faulkner). A slip of a finger at registration time made me Aspenglow. I didn’t care enough to have it changed and still don’t. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/271 "2018-09-16T18:15:36Z")
Crazy Cat from Pee-Wee’s Playhouse called Pee-Wee P-man. I had a nickname beginning with P, so friends called me P-man as well. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/272 "2018-09-16T21:55:35Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > A slip of a finger at registration time made me Aspenglow. TYAC ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/273 "2018-09-16T22:50:27Z")
> [@Sandra\_Battye](#): > > Sandra Battye is a minor character in Terry Pratchett’s (aka S.N. Faulkner) Night Watch. She is a needlewoman (as opposed to a “seamstress”). I used to make a living by sewing and designing clothes, primairliy dance costumes. And do you keep a mushroom handy, for obstreperous gentlemen callers? ETA: _Night Watch_ is the best of the Discworld novels, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/274 "2018-09-16T23:46:10Z")
> [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](#): > > Favorite expletive of Captain Haddock, companion of **Tintin**. Introduced in “Tintin and the Crab with the Golden Claws”, he was the drunkard captain of the cargo ship ‘Karaboudjan’, which roughly translated means ‘Spirit of SN Faulkner’. > > I look a bit like him (but not as handsome). Here’s a pic: > > [https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180915/7b26fa202bdb84a01aa32fbbffee5803.png](https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180915/7b26fa202bdb84a01aa32fbbffee5803.png) My ghod-you look just like him, even down to the word balloon! ---
**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 18, 2018, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/275 "2018-09-18T00:25:06Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > My ghod-you look just like him, even down to the word balloon! Well, I see how you got _your_ name! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/276 "2018-09-18T04:03:56Z")
S N Faulkner once attempted to Noodle me. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/277 "2018-09-18T04:10:34Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > S N Faulkner ☹ ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/278 "2018-09-18T05:45:54Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > S N Faulkner once attempted to Noodle me. It appears that you both made it through that struggle. At least he did not try to canoodle you. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/279 "2018-09-18T06:09:41Z")
I just murdered **snfaulkner**. He’s gone, he is no more. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/280 "2018-09-18T12:52:17Z")
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