# What is the origin of your SDMB name?

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**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")\
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**Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/163 "2020-09-08T06:50:17Z")

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Harlan Ellison used “rowrbazzle” in his book about “The City at the Edge of Forever”. But ISTR I read the word in something else he wrote before I read that book. Here’s the quote from the book: “There was actual rowrbazzle size money to be made from this kind of thing.” (An article for TV Guide about the episode.)  
But the way I remember it originally is the same meaning: an amount of something that was happily much larger than expected. And it sounded funny!

I added the extra “r” because somebody else on the Internet was already using the original word. Not totally proper, but I was clueless at the time.

I didn’t know it originated in “Pogo Possum” until someone here hailed me as a Pogo fan. I apologized for the confusion.

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