# What Images Can You Surmise From Other Dopers' Screen Names? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 11, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557 "2004-02-11T00:49:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/341 "2004-03-24T17:26:00Z")
The combination of Ilsa\_Lund’s name and signature give me the impression of a mustache-wearing, cigar-chomping 240-lb man-gorilla … dressed like Ingrid Bergman, complete with wig. But I’m weird. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/342 "2004-03-24T21:18:44Z")
> [@Anthropomorphic Mouse](#): > > Do I even have to ask what image my name invokes? > > 😉 Welcome to the SDMB! Gadget fan? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/343 "2004-03-25T01:45:08Z")
tanookie is a wookie who likes trigonometry. ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/344 "2004-03-25T02:06:09Z")
> [@emekthian](#): > > tanookie is a wookie who likes trigonometry. Actually I’m a raccoon! I got the name from SuperMarioBrothers when I first started using the net in 1990 and it stuck 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/345 "2004-03-25T02:20:02Z")
> [@tanookie](#): > > Actually I’m a raccoon! I got the name from SuperMarioBrothers when I first started using the net in 1990 and it stuck 🙂 Well, you shot my image all to hell. I was thinking along the lines of ‘tan’+‘nookie’, which ought to be petty self-explanatory to anyone with a proper dirty mind… ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/346 "2004-03-25T02:22:29Z")
> [@vunderbob](#): > > Well, you shot my image all to hell. I was thinking along the lines of ‘tan’+‘nookie’, which ought to be petty self-explanatory to anyone with a proper dirty mind… Yeah that’s what most people think … Especially since it abbreviates so nicely to 'Nookie ---
**Author:** ![Anthropomorphic\_Mouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Anthropomorphic\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anthropomorphic_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/347 "2004-03-25T02:29:38Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > Welcome to the SDMB! > > Gadget fan? > 🙂 Huh? _WOOSH_ ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/348 "2004-03-25T03:41:13Z")
> [@Anthropomorphic Mouse](#): > > Huh? _WOOSH_ I think **Bosda** was referring to Inspector Gadget? I’m so embarrassed to know that. And while I’m at it: **Anthropomorphic Mouse** - cartoon mouse superhero **dangergene** - Dangermouse with a DNA helix on front (hmmm… a theme going on here) **vunderbob** - an ABBA album **tanookie** - I’ll second the Star Wars character, adding that you are definitely a _ **tan** _ extraterrestrial. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/349 "2004-03-25T13:18:56Z")
> [@cityboy916](#): > > I think **Bosda** was referring to Inspector Gadget? > I’m so embarrassed to know that. Wrong. 😛 Gadget Hackwrench. From _Chip N Dale’s Rescue Rangers._ ---
**Author:** ![Chicago\_Faucet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chicago_faucet/32/13910_2.png) [@Chicago\_Faucet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicago_Faucet)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/350 "2004-03-25T13:39:52Z")
tanookie is that little Japanese raccoon-like creature from Super Mario Brothers 3. Priceguy is somewhere inbetween Rod Roddy from The Price Is Right and Matthew Lesko - the guy with the question mark suit. Paperbackwriter is, well, they are John Lennon circa 1967. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/351 "2004-03-25T13:45:22Z")
> [@cityboy916](#): > > And while I’m at it: > > **vunderbob** - an ABBA album A significant portion of my ancestry is Swedish, but ABBA? **EWWWWWWWW!** Pass me the brain bleach, please… ---
**Author:** ![Nvme77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Nvme77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nvme77)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/352 "2004-03-26T01:21:37Z")
Here are some of mine: **No ClueBoy** Funny guy with a story to tell Has a blue cap on. **FairyChatMom** I think of a woman with pink silvery wings that is leaning over a white picket fence with a coffee mug in her hand. Also she has antennea **Flamsterette-X** For some reason that I cannot remember, scares the living crap out of me. **AirmanDoors** I think of a blue sky with white clouds framed by airplane grade heavy metal **Bruce\_Daddy** a guy in flip flops, bermuda shorts and a cold budweiser in his hand. He also has a little kids wading pool in the background that he’s filling up with water from the hose thats in his other hand. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/353 "2004-03-26T15:56:30Z")
> [@Nvme77](#): > > Here are some of mine: **Bruce\_Daddy** a guy in flip flops, bermuda shorts and a cold budweiser in his hand. He also has a little kids wading pool in the background that he’s filling up with water from the hose thats in his other hand. You just described my Dad, except the beer is Old Milwaukee. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/354 "2004-03-26T16:02:06Z")
**Airman Doors** Is Jim Morrison dressed as a Navy pilot. I think someone else mentioned this, but this is the image I get. “Out here on the USS Perimeter, there are no stars. We is stoned, immaculate, SIR!” ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/355 "2004-03-26T16:14:11Z")
**lieu** – a “loo”–in this case, an outhouse, complete with wooden door & half-moon shaped vent. ---
**Author:** ![Aldebaran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Aldebaran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aldebaran)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/356 "2004-03-26T19:05:22Z")
There are message boards with an option to give info on your gender. That can be useful because some people tend to react a bit “hostile” whenever you can’t guess their gender correctly when you reply to their posts. I was misled by the membername of Ilsa Lund and at first also for EddyTD (until I saw a picture with the horses… So also 3 cats ETD? We have more then one passion in common then). For the rest I think that I’m guessing right in most cases. Salaam. A Salaam. A ---
**Author:** ![Aldebaran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Aldebaran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aldebaran)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/357 "2004-03-26T19:22:39Z")
Sorry, that post belongs to an other thread. I read this one, but I don’t have any image of other posters when reading their membernames. Someone posted an image of Aldebaran in connection with German/WWI/pilot… Mmmmm… No. I’m a bit too young for that (and none of my ancestors fit the picture) and I wouldn’t trust myself in a cockpit pushing aside the pilot if I’m not in a suicidal mood. So that part of the story is not applyable. The part of me being always ready to go rescue a helpless lady of course **is**. Salaam. A ---
**Author:** ![Padmaraga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@Padmaraga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padmaraga)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/358 "2004-03-26T20:04:31Z")
This has been interesting, in a better-than-counting-the-ceiling-tiles way. I know I’m just barely more than a lurker, but would anyone be interested in giving me a try? (I’ll probably be sorry I asked…) ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/359 "2004-03-26T20:14:04Z")
> [@Padmaraga](#): > > I know I’m just barely more than a lurker, but would anyone be interested in giving me a try? (I’ll probably be sorry I asked…) A panda standing on a fancy rug. FWIW 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/360 "2004-03-26T20:32:23Z")
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