# 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:** 6
**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 5, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/102 "2020-09-05T16:35:37Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > I had recently seen exhibition of the works of William Hogarth when I signed up for a different board. Since then I’ve used the same name on various boards for consistency. A phrase from some movie sticks in my head. They speak of “The man with the Hogarth nose.” Not sure why that particular phrase sticks with me. I think I know what movie it is, but am not certain. How is your nose? ---
**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 5, 2020, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/103 "2020-09-05T16:38:31Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > I live in a town where the railroad is a big employer. High school mascot is the Railers. 13 is my birth date By any chance, is your town in eastern North Carolina? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/104 "2020-09-05T16:48:39Z")
I’m a baker by profession, and not too original at thinking up names. In the book _The Princess Bride_ Buttercup was kind of like me, she named her horse “Horse” ---
**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 5, 2020, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/105 "2020-09-05T16:53:36Z")
Short version, I’m a weeb what likes cats. Longer version, I used to use Nekogami (‘cat god’), but that was way too common a name, so I had trouble getting it in a lot of places. So I eventually rearranged the elements and ended up with Kamino Neko (神の猫 - ‘God’s cat’). Which, when using a different character for ‘no’ (野) is a perfectly valid Japanese name, so I switched the spelling. (‘Kamino’ (using the characters I do - there’s a couple different names that can be read as Kamino) means ‘Godfield’) (Interestingly, there’s an artist named 神野猫, but she reads it as ‘Jinno Neko’.) ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/106 "2020-09-05T17:02:01Z")
Because I hunger. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2020, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/107 "2020-09-05T17:14:01Z")
The historical [Tamerlane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur) was of course a Central Asian warlord of unpleasant demeanor and considerable military talent who conquered a wide swath of territory over ~35 years to form a somewhat unstable empire. Famously thrashed the Golden Horde, the young Ottoman empire and the Sultanate of Delhi among many others. Best known in addition to his undeniable military ability for truly horrific slaughters mostly associated with sieges, the related and infamous pyramids of skulls and just generally scaring the piss out of everyone in his path. But that’s not why I took his name. Mostly it is because I ran across it at a young age ( pre-teen), found that particular translation of his name euphonious and for some reason it came to symbolize in my mind what was at that age a sort of 1001 Arabian Nights-view of the ‘exotic East’. The somewhat mythological name [Prester John](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prester_John), which I first encountered in a [comic book](https://macmcentire.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/prester4.jpg), had a very similar connotation in my mind and I almost signed up here with that handle instead. ---
**Author:** ![Leftwix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e274bd/32.png) [@Leftwix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leftwix)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/108 "2020-09-05T17:31:47Z")
Twix ice cream bars come in Left and Right. They sell them singly, and I always buy the Left one, because I cancel anything Right… unless it was the last one, then it’s just ice cream. Before 2016, it had no significance. ---
**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 5, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/109 "2020-09-05T18:39:49Z")
Two inside jokes and one fairly obvious reference. One day my mom asked me where milk of magnesia came from. I said magnesia’s were cute and furry creatures with teeth. After that any small furry animal was a cute and furry creature with teeth. The second is my own personal joke that I’m secretly a superhero with the power to control furry animals. The third reference is obviously the fact that I am a "furry’. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/110 "2020-09-05T19:16:53Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > [@Railer13](#): > > > > I live in a town where the railroad is a big employer. High school mascot is the Railers. 13 is my birth date > > By any chance, is your town in eastern North Carolina? Sorry, no. South-central Kansas. ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/111 "2020-09-05T21:34:02Z")
> [@Bayaker](#): > > If I ever wonder about the origin of Doper names I just figure it’s some Tolkien, Dr. Who, or other sci-fi reference that I won’t get without investing more time than it’s worth I remember when I started reading the Discworld books and it seemed like every other page was a name I recognized from the SDMB. Mine is… well, short and fairly obvious story is that it’s from the Wizard of Oz. Slightly longer story is that it’s actually Wicked I was interested in at the time. Wizard of Oz has always been a favorite, but… a childhood favorite. Not the kind of thing I really identified strongly enough at age 14 that I wanted my username to reference it. But, as I recall, Elphaba was taken and it’s all in the same universe, so 🤷🏽‍♀️ ---
**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 5, 2020, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/112 "2020-09-05T21:51:28Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > > [@Railer13](#): > > > > > > I live in a town where the railroad is a big employer. High school mascot is the Railers. 13 is my birth date > > > > By any chance, is your town in eastern North Carolina? > > Sorry, no. South-central Kansas Ah. My dad is from Rocky Mount, N.C., and in high school was a cheerleader for the Rocky Mount Railroaders. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/113 "2020-09-05T23:41:36Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > How is your nose? It looks a little like a caricature, I must admit. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/114 "2020-09-06T00:02:59Z")
If you don’t live near–or have never been to–DC, there is a stretch of the Capital Beltway that should interest you: heading west on 495 from Georgia Ave., you come to [this overpass](https://www.google.com/search?q=surrender+dorothy+mormon+temple&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwinxcOcmtPrAhVE1VkKHcvKBuUQ_AUoAXoECBYQAw&biw=1525&bih=856) that has a wonderful view of the Mormon Temple behind it. Guess what keeps getting spray-painted on the bridge? ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/115 "2020-09-06T00:08:44Z")
Mine’s kinda boring and dated. I was a big fan of the Straight Dope books and occasional reader of the Reader, so I landed here not intending to be part of a community but really just wanting more Cecil content. I’d just planned to throw my $0.02 at various questions in GQ and discuss the column of the day in COCC/SRs. So in the intrepid spirit of dear leader, I decided to adapt and adopt one of the nicknames given to him by his mailbag audience - “Oh Omniscient One”. Also I was both a smart aleck and a know-it-all just graduating college and wasn’t humble enough to foresee the constant snarky comments when I ended up being wrong about something. I dislike usernames that include things like special characters, leetspeak, ASCII art, numbers and especially birthyears, having been burned on that shortsighted choice back in the early days of the internet myself, so finding a $0.50 word that was available seemed like a win. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/116 "2020-09-06T00:25:49Z")
From my initials. E, obviously. And “W” (Just the beginning.) ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/117 "2020-09-06T01:05:11Z")
Uh … senior moment. I’ve forgotten. ---
**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 6, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/118 "2020-09-06T01:14:47Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > From my initials. E, obviously. And “W” (Just the beginning.) so, ew? ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/119 "2020-09-06T01:16:31Z")
after lurking for quite a while, I joined on a quick impulse. While it would have fit in well here, “condescending-know-it-all” was too long, and with this crew, no matter how obscure the fictional character, they’d find it obvious. So I wanted something short, easily typed, but clever. “Peccavi” is an obscure word with a clever meaning for a user name, and it is the source of one of the cleverest historical puns (even though the legend and the reality conflict, I prefer the legend), Plus it is short, easy to remember, and easy to type in the login (hence the lack of a “1” at the end on the new board) ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/120 "2020-09-06T02:03:28Z")
Seven Locks Brewing has a beer named after it. ---
**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 6, 2020, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/121 "2020-09-06T02:06:41Z")
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