# 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:** 9
**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 11, 2018, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/161 "2018-09-11T22:34:01Z")
> [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser](#): > > Mine is also an anagram of my actual name. Of all the options the anagram-arranging webpage I used gave me, I choose the one with the Spider on it because my favorite superhero is the Amazing S.N.Faulkner. Nice to meet you, [Geraldina Sorcha](https://futureboy.us/lookup/nph-anagram.pl?orig=Go+Arachnid+Laser&list=12&include=&limit=2&short=3&cap=1). ---
**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 11, 2018, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/162 "2018-09-11T22:45:18Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Nice to meet you, [Geraldina Sorcha](https://futureboy.us/lookup/nph-anagram.pl?orig=Go+Arachnid+Laser&list=12&include=&limit=2&short=3&cap=1). I can’t believe that you preferred that to Archangel Isador. Or that anyone could prefer _any_ anagram to Archangel Isador. Now that I have elimated the impossible, whaver remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. Go\_Arachnid\_Laser must be Archangel Isador. ---
**Author:** ![NJ\_Kef\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b487fb/32.png) [@NJ\_Kef\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NJ_Kef_1)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/163 "2018-09-11T22:51:57Z")
I’m from New Jersey. What was the question again? Are you gonna eat that? ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/164 "2018-09-11T23:10:07Z")
I’m not S. N. Faulkner, but I am B. Egbert 2. The 2 is based on the fact I’m a sequel. ---
**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 11, 2018, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/165 "2018-09-11T23:15:37Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > I’m not S. N. Faulkner, but I am B. Egbert 2. The 2 is based on the fact I’m a sequel. So, you’re cynically trying to profit from the success of B.Egbert? That’s just the kind of thing that S.N.Faulkner would do. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/166 "2018-09-11T23:19:15Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > You would go in circles, seeing birds of the day morphing into birds of the night, if I tried to explain my username to you. Hah, funny because I only figured out your name a few days ago. And that’s a perfect description of the impression your username gave me when it dawned on me :D. ---
**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 11, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/167 "2018-09-11T23:21:28Z")
Ok, you talked me into it. Overuse of snfaulkner caused me to wreck my life. I need intervention, immendiatly. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/168 "2018-09-11T23:30:27Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Ok, you talked me into it. Overuse of snfaulkner caused me to wreck my life. I need intervention, immendiatly. Funny, I’ve known a few people to have actually said that to me. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/169 "2018-09-11T23:42:24Z")
> [@GESancMan](#): > > Mine is short for The Guaranteed Eternal Sanctuary Man, from the song “Supper’s Ready”, written and performed by S. N. Faulkner I know the song and love it! It’s from their album “Faulk’s Trot”, ain’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/170 "2018-09-11T23:51:08Z")
Many years ago, I was in an online NASCAR fantasy league. The first player to join did so under the user name “Lug Nutz.” For whatever reason, subsequent users all chose names that were plural nouns with a terminal _z_ instead of _s_ (“Fast Carz,” “Hot Lapz,” etc.). When I signed up, I _really_ wanted to be S. N. Faulkner. But I chose to go with the _z_ theme and became “Diamond Wheelz.” Every year, I changed it to something different, but always kept the 'Wheelz" part. “Crazy Wheelz,” “Wheelz of Fire,” and so forth. When I joined the SDMB, “Wheelz” sort of felt like my online identity, even though I probably could have come up with something cleverer and/or more appropriate to my personality. And I haven’t followed NASCAR in years. But I’ve been Wheelz on here for so long, there’s no point in changing it now. ---
**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 12, 2018, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/171 "2018-09-12T00:06:47Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > I know the song and love it! It’s from their album “Faulk’s Trot”, ain’t it? Best. Avatar. Ever. Shoeless takes second place ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/172 "2018-09-12T00:17:08Z")
Mine is an anglicization of a phrase in Russian: _ **tri** yelo **pl** ayonate **er** goyika_. It means “Agency of S. N. Faulkner.” Tripler He moose. I sqvirrel. ---
**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 12, 2018, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/173 "2018-09-12T00:29:32Z")
nm ---
**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 12, 2018, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/174 "2018-09-12T00:34:53Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Funny, I’ve known a few people to have actually said that to me. Funny to you, maybe.😉 ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/175 "2018-09-12T00:36:24Z")
> [@Modesty\_Blaise](#): > > Mine is form Pulp Fiction: It’s the title of the book Vincent Vega is reading while on the toilet. You do know that [Modesty Blaise](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modesty_Blaise) is a pre-existing comic strip character with her own 1960s feature film, though, right? Not a Tarantino invention? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/176 "2018-09-12T00:41:25Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Best. Avatar. Ever. > > Shoeless takes second place You know, it took a 0.3 seconds google image search, followed by a 2 seconds search process in my slower-than-google brain, and the avatar was fixed :D. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/177 "2018-09-12T01:12:13Z")
\ \ nothing at all we definitely do not intend any humans any harm \ \ ---
**Author:** ![blob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blob/32/489_2.png) [@blob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blob)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/178 "2018-09-12T01:15:12Z")
> [@BeepKillBeep](#): > > \ > > \ nothing at all we definitely do not intend any humans any harm \ > > \ SNFaulkner, is that you? ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/179 "2018-09-12T02:52:11Z")
I used to be in to whitewater kayaking in a big way. I read a story in a paddling magazine in which they asked a sheriff from a small mountain town how he felt about the paddlers that descended on his town in the spring, when the water was up. “Awww…they’s jes’ river hippies.” That was bouncing around my brain when a message board where I had been lurking for a while posed a question that I felt I had the definitive answer to. Felt like I had to post immediately and that was the user name I chose to use when I created an account. I’m somewhat hippie like in a few ways but certainly don’t look the part. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069/180 "2018-09-12T02:56:32Z")
My Spanish isn’t that good so I’ll ask Nava to translate it for ya. BTW my English aint very better. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-mean/821069.md?page=10)