# What is the origin of your SDMB screen name? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 156
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2024, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-screen-name/1005131/156 "2024-08-04T13:12:33Z")
Every time I see your user name I think of the financial term: > **[Dead cat bounce](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_bounce)** > > In finance, a dead cat bounce is a small, brief recovery in the price of a declining stock. Derived from the idea that "even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height", the phrase is also popularly applied to any case where a subject experiences a brief resurgence during or following a severe decline. This may also be known as a "sucker rally". > The earliest citation of the phrase in the news media dates to December 1985 when the Singaporean and Malaysian stock markets bounced back ... Which is actually due to a book I read: > **[Amazon.com: The Dead Cat Bounce: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery:...](https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Cat-Bounce-Homicide-Mystery/dp/055357857X)** > > Amazon.com: The Dead Cat Bounce: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery: 9780553578577: Graves, Sarah: Books My own user name? See here: > [@What is the origin of your SDMB name?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-name/919810/248): > > During Christmas break (December 2004 - January 2005), I finally decided to sign up with snopes and had some discussions with my husband, who also signed up with snopes. We had already been living in the German-speaking part of Switzerland for a number of years. He, being an electrical engineer, took some electrical name with the masculine definitive article in German, Der. As I am female, I decided to use the female definitive article, Die (pronounced dee, not die). And the electrical name s… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-your-sdmb-screen-name/1005131)._