# What is the origin of your SDMB name? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 4, 2020, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810 "2020-09-04T14:08:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/222 "2020-09-13T17:30:55Z")
It appears I’ve been demoted. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/223 "2020-09-13T19:09:44Z")
Holy Crap!! really??? _pounce huggles the Spice Weasel and staples her to the board, so she can never go away n’more_ Also my username comes from that that I’m a Janis Joplin fan (with a bit of a nod to Big brother as well) ---
**Author:** ![Hilary\_Algar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilary_algar/32/4282_2.png) [@Hilary\_Algar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilary_Algar)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/224 "2020-09-13T19:18:51Z")
My mistake and sorry about this. I definitely misused the word _whooshed_. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/225 "2020-09-13T20:21:09Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > Later, as I’m really quite a boring guy then I changed one letter to reflect that. I’m not longer in Japan and have thought about getting a new name with no connection to there. I can’t see your name without thinking of aspirin, followed a moment later by “Nope, he means the harbor.” Fools me every time. > [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > I was thinking Lower St. Louis. Like one of those trendy hip neighborhoods in San Fran or NYC, excerpt LSL would be full of barbecue joints and Mississippi Delta Blues clubs. That part of St. Louis is called Soulard. And in fact is immediately south of the rail yards immediately south of downtown. I spent many a happy, if hazily-remembered, night down there absorbing beer, mudbugs, live jazz, & blues. It’s really a treasure. It’s the old French area built around 1880 and hosts the largest Mardi Gras celebration in the USA after New Orleans. Sadly all-day/all-night street parties in mid Feb are a lot more fun on the Gulf coast than they are in the chilly Midwest. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/226 "2020-09-13T21:47:28Z")
I did also. Dwyr was my first cat. A very smart, large, handsome gray tabby boy. If he’d had thumbs he would have been dangerous. ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Catly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@Bob\_Catly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Catly)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/227 "2020-09-13T23:29:19Z")
Before the board ‘switched’ I was Hi Medlo, taken from the heat settings on my kitchen range…Hi, Med, and Lo. When the board changed, Bob Catly was the first thing to come to mind. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/228 "2020-09-14T04:36:10Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I can’t see your name without thinking of aspirin, followed a moment later by “Nope, he means the harbor.” Fools me every time. I wonder if I should change my name again. I wasn’t thinking of the pharmaceutical company when I made the change. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/229 "2020-09-14T05:03:01Z")
@Bob_Catly, there is a thread with instructions for people with a previous username to get the new account merged with the old one so you can retain your posting history. (Your old name is still here, but it was changed to Hi\_Medlo. Now you have 2 accounts.) EngineerCompGeek will fix you up. See here: [https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-changes-and-fixes/915847](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-changes-and-fixes/915847) > Send me an email at [EngineerCompGeek@gmail.com](mailto:EngineerCompGeek@gmail.com) and we’ll get you sorted out. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/230 "2020-09-14T06:27:54Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > It appears I’ve been demoted. SPICEY!! Welcome back, even if it’s just a pop-in. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/231 "2020-09-14T16:09:14Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > I wonder if I should change my name again. I wasn’t thinking of the pharmaceutical company when I made the change. May be just me. I took note of you as a poster for quite some time before your biography dribbled out. I assumed you worked in the Japanese HQ of Bayer AG. With your new location you could become Taiwan\_On or some other whimsical wordplay. Then again, if the CCP gets fussy enough in the next 4 years you may be emigrating again. Might want to skip the geographic references in your name. We do still have a location field in our user profiles albeit, not shown on our posts. ---
**Author:** ![thdudescar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thdudescar/32/4638_2.png) [@thdudescar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thdudescar)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/232 "2020-09-14T20:50:44Z")
The Dude’s Car Old, beaten, battered, disrespected… ---
**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 14, 2020, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/233 "2020-09-14T21:12:15Z")
But how do you smell? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/234 "2020-09-14T21:14:07Z")
Probably with his nose? ---
**Author:** ![thdudescar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thdudescar/32/4638_2.png) [@thdudescar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thdudescar)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/235 "2020-09-14T21:17:10Z")
Vagrants use me as a toilet. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/236 "2020-09-14T21:17:47Z")
> [@thdudescar](#): > > The Dude’s Car > Old, beaten, battered, disrespected… I was sure it was because the chicks thought the Dude’s car was **hot** ☄🔥💥🏎☄💥🔥. Obviously they still do…Cause a Doper would never fudge the truth. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/237 "2020-09-14T21:24:51Z")
Years ago, there was a Shakespeare discussion board that allowed you to pick a name for each post. After a post debunking the silly Oxford authorship nonsense, I was going to sign it “Reality Check” but accidentally typed my name. When I got to the SDMB a few months later, I had stuck with it. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/238 "2020-09-16T09:43:57Z")
If I had to guess, it would be because you never logged in to the old board to get your Charter Member status after you were de-modded. I seem to remember it taking at least one login or maybe even one post for titles to take effect. Anyways, welcome back. Hope you can at least pop in every once in a while! ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2020, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/239 "2020-09-17T23:47:26Z")
There was a drop-down option in Settings that I missed. Woo-hoo! Thanks for the welcome. ---
**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 18, 2020, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/240 "2020-09-18T00:51:45Z")
I was an avid whitewater kayaker for many years. At the height of my obsession with it, I had been lurking here for a while, on a tip from a poster at another message board. Someone asked a question in CS that I felt I had a good response for so I signed up to answer. I had just read an article in the American Whitewater magazine where a sheriff of a small Appalachian town was asked his opinion of the paddlers that descended on his town every spring. “Ah, they’s just river hippies” was his response. With this fresh in my mind I used it as a user name. If you met me, “hippie” is not the image that would come to mind. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/241 "2020-09-18T00:58:26Z")
My username literally means nothing. I created the account to check out the SDMB at a coworker’s suggestion (Shagnasty FWIW) and tried to type a generic sounding name like “mr smith” with some numbers after it. But I mistypes it without the “r”. I’ve been meaning to update it for almost 20 years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810.md?page=13)