# 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:** 8
**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 6, 2020, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/142 "2020-09-06T19:57:01Z")
No. ‘‘Tis unique here. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/143 "2020-09-06T19:59:49Z")
Them’s my initials. ---
**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 6, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/144 "2020-09-06T20:00:20Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > also wanted to be tall, dark, and handsome with a deep voice 3 out of of 4 isn’t bad. I’ll let you figure out which 3 you are. Ask a kid, they’re brutally honest. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/145 "2020-09-07T20:13:11Z")
Thorny locust is a tree. It’s a very stubborn sort of tree; once it gets its roots down somewhere, it’s really hard to get rid of. It’s definitely a member of an invasive species. And it’s thorny. A lot of people don’t like it. It also makes fantastic fence posts; untreated wood lasts many years even in wet ground. And it makes extremely good firewood; will keep you warm all night and all winter. And it’s arguably a nitrogen fixer, feeding other plants around it. So: not to everybody’s taste. But certainly has its good points. – I developed a liking for it years ago, while simultaneously trying to keep it from taking over an old vineyard and using its fenceposts to hold up the vineyard trellis. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/146 "2020-09-07T20:24:36Z")
A tree! Never knew. (Images, thorny locust tree: [https://is.gd/NAU7dG.](https://is.gd/NAU7dG.)) Those thorns look brutal. According to wiki its natural range is centered in the southern Mississippi River drainage basin states. Map here, [https://is.gd/Pksqmv](https://is.gd/Pksqmv). Interesting, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/147 "2020-09-07T20:31:00Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > According to wiki its natural range is centered in the southern Mississippi River drainage basin states. Fairly common by now – fairly common by at least thirty years ago now – in the Finger Lakes area of New York State. I think it’s been spreading since they did that map. The thorns IME are more often on the young growth than on the tree trunks. But they can indeed be brutal; despite caution I’ve had a few of them in me. ---
**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 7, 2020, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/148 "2020-09-07T20:41:43Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > certainly has its good points I assume this is meant to be a pun. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/149 "2020-09-07T20:47:47Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I assume this is meant to be a pun Yikes! I actually didn’t think of that. Hard to see how I missed it, now. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/150 "2020-09-07T20:57:36Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > (Images, thorny locust tree: [https://is.gd/NAU7dG.)](https://is.gd/NAU7dG.)) Those thorns look brutal. Whoops – taking a second look – that’s honey locust. The thorny locust I’m thinking of is black locust. Still thorny, but not as drastic, and thorns mostly on young growth; and more northerly range, though probably originally not this far north. ETA link, scroll down for spines picture: > **[Robinia pseudoacacia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinia_pseudoacacia)** > > Robinia pseudoacacia, commonly known in its native territory as black locust, is a medium-sized hardwood deciduous tree, belonging to the tribe Robinieae of the legume family Fabaceae. It is native to a few small areas of the United States, but it has been widely planted and naturalized elsewhere in temperate North America, Europe, Southern Africa and Asia and is considered an invasive species in some areas, such as the temperate east coast of Australia where the cultivar 'Frisia'(Golden The r... ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/151 "2020-09-07T22:40:59Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > I never liked that as much as Boskone is of course the villains. Maybe a “Journey to Arisa”. Boskone had better developed villains. The Arisians were pretty bland, 'cept for their cool names: Brolenteen, Drounli, Kriedigan, and Nedanillor. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/152 "2020-09-07T23:30:27Z")
A SF writer named Harry Harrison wrote nearly a dozen novels with my SDMB name in them, I have read them all and most are on my bookshelf, so it just felt right when I wanted to come up with something that was not a play off of my name. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/153 "2020-09-07T23:40:07Z")
**Colibri** is Spanish for hummingbird. I did my doctoral thesis on hummingbirds in Panama. My avatar is the Green Violet-ear [_Colibri thalassinus._](https://previews.123rf.com/images/jamescumming/jamescumming1705/jamescumming170500002/77438696-green-violetear-hummingbird-in-flight.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/154 "2020-09-07T23:43:00Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > A SF writer named Harry Harrison wrote nearly a dozen novels with my SDMB name in them, That was awfully prescient of him. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/155 "2020-09-07T23:54:22Z")
Fan of [Bo Kimble](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Kimble). Also, I like the sound of Kimble. And Dr. Richard Kimble is an okay guy. The first site I went to where Kimble was taken was an IRC server where people would livechat Houston Rockets games. Since I was there to follow Dan Langhi, the first NBA player from my alma mater since before I went there, I added his number 14 to the end. Nowadays, for obvious reasons, I’ve ditched that; my first choice of addon number is 42 (Langhi wore that at Vanderbilt, alongside the whole Ultimate Answer thing). ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/156 "2020-09-08T00:03:33Z")
If you’re a 'Bilt guy why the Nashville logo? ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/157 "2020-09-08T00:12:54Z")
1. I have season tickets for Nashville SC. 2. I like that logo (at least the N part of it – the whole logo with the octagon and Nashville SC is pretty clunky) more than I do Vanderbilt’s logos. 3. The bright yellow shows up better than Vanderbilt’s black and gold; on the old board, I’d use that in lieu of the semi-broken “First Unread” features. ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/158 "2020-09-08T00:38:06Z")
Mine is a local colloquialism. It is a shortened version of “Yes indeed, by God, Captain, I heartily agree with your stated opinion!” ---
**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 8, 2020, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/159 "2020-09-08T01:54:49Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Sigh… it’s true. As handsome and suave as I am it is nothing compared to **Tripler** who is the visage of Adonis himself. Thank you. You do realize there’s yet _another_? He’s @Trip, and I hear he’s got far better hair than either of us. Tripler Like . . . _John Stamos-good_ hair. ---
**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 8, 2020, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/160 "2020-09-08T03:07:26Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > Like . . . _John Stamos-good_ hair. The hair that grows out of his left ear? ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/161 "2020-09-08T03:36:36Z")
> [@Kimble](#): > > Fan of [Bo Kimble](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Kimble). Also, I like the sound of Kimble. And Dr. Richard Kimble is an okay guy. Rest in Peace, Hank Gathers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810.md?page=9)