# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Jumpbass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jumpbass/32/147_2.png) [@Jumpbass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumpbass)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/81 "2018-09-10T17:03:44Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Crossed paths now and then with a guy who had an aluminum upright and used to play it while standing on the side and rocking it both literally and figuratively. I always pictured him when I read your name. Nice. I like that. I’ve always been afraid to stand on my bass. Lee Rocker from the Stray Cats broke his ribs falling off his. I also didn’t want to break my bass. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/82 "2018-09-10T17:09:53Z")
Cooking was always a hobby of mine, and at the time I signed up I was on a hiatus from playing guitar. I started up guitar again (around 15 years ago) and now I’m an avid jazz player with a few gigs. I’ve been thinking of changing my username but it seems like a hassle. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/83 "2018-09-10T17:46:30Z")
India. 1979. I was on the fourth night of a two-day opium and sex orgy with a high-ranking Madagascaran general and a half-dozen east-Asian college co-eds/call girls. The general and a girl named Nomi went out for cigarettes. I was eating the last of a lemon cake, and trying to make conversation with one of the hookers, but her English was far from understandable in my opium-induced state. I told her “That’s enough, honey. No more talking.” She said, “Lendon vake?” I said, “Honey, let me eat my lemon cake cuz I want to go to bed.” “Lendon ved?” she said. But at that point, my last hit off the pipe did something to me, and her words began to echo off the walls. "Lendonvedenlendonvederlendervedendervedderlendenvedderlenderveddenderlendervedder… “Len…der…ved…der.” I was lost in the sound of her voice bouncing around my eardrums, and I hadn’t noticed the general had come back, and was standing over me. He was repeatedly asking me if I was okay. I finally realized he was talking to me, and I said “Yeah…yeah.” Then he asked, “But are you happy?” I looked at him, nodded my head slowly, and said, “No.” That general’s name? S._K_. Faulkner. No relation. ---
**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/84 "2018-09-10T17:52:03Z")
Bob Bitchin’ is a revered Chinese Canadian philosopher. Far out, Man.🆒 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/85 "2018-09-10T18:00:56Z")
> [@Jumpbass](#): > > I’m a bass player and I play music that can be described as “Jump Music”, that is, retro swing, rockabilly and dixieland. It’s also an awkward thing to say out loud, but not as awkward as saying “snfaulkner”. > > (Off subject- I signed in to post this, but now I can’t see anyone’s avatars. I went to the User CP, but can’t find how to turn it on. How do I do that?) Do you know Pittsburgh’s own Jimmy Adler by any chance? He is in your genres, doing guitar and vocals. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/86 "2018-09-10T18:05:28Z")
Mine is just something my first wife called me after I beat her at some game or another we were playing on a Sega Genesis ca. 1991. I started using it as a character name on games that would permit a name of that length and carried it over to use on-line. There are several people using the name now, according to a Google search I just ran. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/87 "2018-09-10T18:09:07Z")
Mine means that I’m a nerd. > [@Colibri](#): > > Spanish for hummingbird. I did my thesis research on hummingbirds in Panama. I learned what “colibri” meant, thanks to your user name. When I started playing Final Fantasy XIV last year, I ran into a bird-like creature called a “[Colibri](https://ffxi.gamerescape.com/w/images/thumb/1/1d/Colibri.jpg/300px-Colibri.jpg),” which looks a flamingo and a dragon got drunk together one night and did very naughty things. When I first saw one of those in the game, I said, “That’s no hummingbird!” ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/88 "2018-09-10T18:25:09Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > That’s racist. You mean all people named Frodo don’t go on quests involving rings? I am really William Falkner. **I am your father, S.** Secretly I’m actually a superhero with the power to control furry creatures. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/89 "2018-09-10T18:25:27Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > I had aphaisa while entering my username, and it didn’t get accepted. I thought typing “node out” would help correct the problem, but there’s that homonym thing. Funny, I wanted the name **Knowed Out**. When I couldn’t get it I gave up. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/90 "2018-09-10T18:26:18Z")
I admire Nellie Bly. I considered using my biker name, S.N. Faulkner, but I couldn’t take one more damned kid asking me the theme of _The Sound and the Fury_. I usually said it was “Street racing is illegal.” ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/91 "2018-09-10T18:40:53Z")
> [@Jumpbass](#): > > Nice. I like that. I’ve always been afraid to stand on my bass. Lee Rocker from the Stray Cats broke his ribs falling off his. I also didn’t want to break my bass. Protecting both your bass and your ass. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/92 "2018-09-10T18:46:02Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > A teammate on a company softball team many years ago called me Shoeless, no doubt due to my (complete lack of) mad outfielding skillz. > > Or it could be the S in “S. N. Faulkner”. Love your avatar, **Shoeless** (for anyone that doesn’t recognize it, it’s Joe Jackson’s \* Look Sharp \* album cover). ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/93 "2018-09-10T18:47:44Z")
I was S.N. Faulkner in a former life. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/94 "2018-09-10T18:58:04Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Love your avatar, **Shoeless** (for anyone that doesn’t recognize it, it’s Joe Jackson’s \* Look Sharp \* album cover). Is your avatar a white supremacist making an OK sign? ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/95 "2018-09-10T19:00:57Z")
S.N. Faulkner paid my mortgage! ---
**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 10, 2018, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/96 "2018-09-10T19:06:39Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I was S.N. Faulkner in a former life. That’s a bunch of shit:)🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/97 "2018-09-10T19:18:44Z")
Inspired by “ravenous man-eating Pliocene clams” claims. It was useful for my gaming name as I am old, slow and almost always dead as our Planetside 2 group could attest to. [Smithsonian Barbie | Snopes.com](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/smithsonian-barbie/) I really wanted precambriansabretoothedmollusc as a username, but my great uncle S. N. Faulkner said that would just be stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/98 "2018-09-10T19:27:34Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Love your avatar, **Shoeless** (for anyone that doesn’t recognize it, it’s Joe Jackson’s \* Look Sharp \* album cover). That IS awesome! ---
**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 10, 2018, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/99 "2018-09-10T19:42:04Z")
Send not to seek th’ Mystery of my Name; for there are Cyphers too dark, Pow’rs too deep, for the ken of mortal Minds. Except for S.N. Faulkner’s, of course. ---
**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 10, 2018, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/100 "2018-09-10T19:57:36Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > … and because Steve McQueen **is** a US Marine. I am so sorry, but I have some sad news for you … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069.md?page=6)