# What is the origin of your SDMB screen name?

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**Created:** [August 2, 2024, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-screen-name/1005131 "2024-08-02T02:17:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 4, 2024, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-screen-name/1005131/155 "2024-08-04T07:38:33Z")

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From an earlier thread:

> [@What is the origin of your SDMB name?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/163):
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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 some…

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