# What does your username say about you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 20, 2009, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-say-about-you/518287 "2009-11-20T14:54:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-say-about-you/518287/41 "2009-11-20T20:16:12Z")
It says that no gnews is good gnews. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-say-about-you/518287/42 "2009-11-20T20:33:52Z")
I’m a bear, as in large, hairy gay man, and I live on the edge of a swamp. Hence… swampbear! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-say-about-you/518287/43 "2009-11-20T20:36:35Z")
I’m a compooter nurd. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-say-about-you/518287/44 "2009-11-20T20:39:30Z")
I have passwords. Lots of them. So many, in fact, that I give them out to people who I deem eligible to receive them. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-say-about-you/518287/45 "2009-11-20T21:21:52Z")
I’m an accountant by trade and have a very large library, plus I’m a word geek and this word has three double letters in a row. How could I resist? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-say-about-you/518287/46 "2009-11-20T21:27:16Z")
Mine says “backrubs sometimes lead to something better.” ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-say-about-you/518287/47 "2009-11-20T21:38:51Z")
> [@dhkendall](#): > > First name Geddy by any chance? > > If so, then, yeah, I’d use an expression of happiness. Who wouldn’t be happy to be Geddy Lee? Nobody doesn’t like Geddy Lee. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-say-about-you/518287/48 "2009-11-20T21:53:36Z")
What does my username say about me? For one thing, I wasn’t paying enough attention to spelling when I signed up. (gender-wise, my username would more correctly be “blondbear”…the “bear” part relating to my outdoorsy inclinations, not my orientation) ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-say-about-you/518287/49 "2009-11-20T21:56:15Z")
That I sometimes like to spell things sdrawkcab. looking at backwards spelled backwards I wish I would have thought of that at the time I signed up ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-say-about-you/518287/50 "2009-11-20T21:58:37Z")
> [@dhkendall](#): > > (I of course, being an odd man out, as my username is merely my first and middle initials, followed by my last name) > [@glee](#): > > You are not alone… Your name is G.L. Ee? ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-say-about-you/518287/51 "2009-11-20T22:23:56Z")
And here I was thinking that Juliana was a fan of the old (and now departed) Dutch [Queen-Mom](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliana_of_the_Netherlands). Me? I live in Maastricht, and absolutely love the town. It is two thousand years old, a student town of 100.000 inhabitants in the most southern tip of the Netherlands. Only Amsterdam has more old houses and things, and Amsterdam is a newbie, only 600 years old. ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-say-about-you/518287/52 "2009-11-20T22:33:28Z")
> [@](#): > > What does your username say about you? That I’m a thunder being of course. ---
**Author:** ![Polly\_Glot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9de053/32.png) [@Polly\_Glot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polly_Glot)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-say-about-you/518287/53 "2009-11-20T22:51:35Z")
My stock-in-trade. A furrin’ language teacher 'R Us. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-say-about-you/518287/54 "2009-11-20T22:56:19Z")
> [@Tahssa](#): > > That I sometimes like to spell things sdrawkcab. Dude. I can’t believe I missed this. I almost always notice backwards usernames. My username says that I liked Madeleine L’Engle novels quite a bit, although I was more into them ten years ago when I picked this username. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-say-about-you/518287/55 "2009-11-20T22:58:45Z")
Well, I’ve told it before, but here goes again, as the old-timers say: we first got the internet about 18 years or so ago. Long enough ago that everyone else I knew would say “The _internet_?!?! What do ya want _that_ for?” Leaving me to lamely reply “Well, on Fridays, you can look up Roger Eberts reviews of new movies. . .” and then more defensively, adding “In five years, everyone will have it; it’ll be like having a telephone!” Our very first ISP provided me with an email addy: [firstnamelastinitial@isp.com](mailto:firstnamelastinitial@isp.com). So, there I had it, a ‘username’, first name, last initial. This was the very first message board I ever joined. My ‘leftover’ username from my early days of the 'net had stuck. It never occurred to me (because I be’s stoopid) that people might read my name as “nori-new” until some Dopers started calling me “nori”, and I thought, “Geez, they think I’m nori-new”. It’s gotten to a point, though, that when _I_ see my username, I parse it that way. At DopeFests, it’s how I introduce myself: “Hi! I’m nori new. You can call me Norine if you want. . .” 😉 ETA: Heh. Who knew that typing [firstnamelastinitial@isp.com](mailto:firstnamelastinitial@isp.com) would generate a link? Just FYI, that is NOT my email address. If you wanna reach me, just PM me, OK? But you probably don’t find me all that fascinating. . .Don’t feel bad. No one does, really. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-say-about-you/518287/56 "2009-11-20T22:58:48Z")
I used to live on Princhester St. I casually signed up to some US message board to respond to some damn thing that caught my eye. I needed to type something in the box marked “username”. The street name came to mind so I typed it. Here I am eight and a half years and over seven thousand posts later, and everything I do on the internet I use the same handle, and sometimes I even think of myself as “Princhester” instead of my actual name. Who knew? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Bith\_Shuffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@The\_Bith\_Shuffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bith_Shuffle)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-say-about-you/518287/57 "2009-11-20T23:16:10Z")
My username indicates, beyond a reasonable doubt, that I have played the Star Wars CCG, by Decipher. ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-say-about-you/518287/58 "2009-11-20T23:23:15Z")
That I was an English major one hundred million bajillion years ago. ‘Shantih’ is the last word of T.S. Eliot’s poem _The Wasteland_ (actually the last three words, as it is stated thrice) and is Hindu for ‘the peace which passeth understanding.’ ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-say-about-you/518287/59 "2009-11-20T23:46:52Z")
Darned if I know. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-say-about-you/518287/60 "2009-11-21T00:02:02Z")
Mine might be interpreted to mean that my name is Jill. This would, however, not be correct. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-say-about-you/518287.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-username-say-about-you/518287.md?page=4)