Don’t you love when you run across a poster’s name in the wild and suddenly understand the reference? That happened to me with @Roderick_Femm.
@Gyrate recently posted that his late sister used the dung beetle as a symbol to represent perseverance even in dealing with shitty situations, and that’s similar to my feelings on it: just a little insect here, taking shit and doing what I can.
I trained dolphins, sea lions, and orcas at a marine park in California for five years. That’s what they called me at work for some reason.
My first job in the Army was as an aerial scout/navigator in scout helicopters. When I finished my initial enlistment I joined the National Guard. That unit was the last one to fly the OH-6 which is unofficially known as the loach. Around that time I got my first email address. It’s been part of my screen name or internet whatever ever since. That MOS was discontinued many years ago and I had two others before I retired.
“Dendarii” is a place in the Vorkosiganverse novels by Lois McMaster Bujold. Nobody in the novels is referred to as a “Dendarii Dame”, but I like alliteration.
I love hearing the origin stories of SDMB screen names whenever we periodically do this type of thread, so thanks to the OP!
As for mine, it’s ‘solost’, not ‘soloist’ as many Dopers have said they mistakenly read it over the years. Believe me, you probably don’t want to hear me sing or play an instrument solo…
In Spring of 2010 I had been a SDMB lurker for a pretty long time, but finally decided to sign up so I could participate in the discussion thread of the final season of ‘Lost’. So I hurriedly came up with ‘solost’ as a double meaning on the show name, and the fact that the messy, convoluted final season had me ‘so lost’.
What a bitter disappointment. The final season of Lost, that is! Not signing up for the SDMB, a decision I’ve been very happy with. Halfway through that last season my wife was saying ‘I don’t think they have any idea how to wrap things up’ and I was all 'the show runners know what they’re doing, you’ll see! It’ll have a satisfying conclusion, I just know it!"
So, my screen name stands as a constant reminder to myself that much of what we hope for in life ends in confusion and disappointment 
Well it’s spanish and I’m half mexican so there is that. When people call me out by name my response is usually something along the lines of yeah buddy or yeah dude, so Si Amigo is close to that.
It was the job I was doing when I first got online. A paintcharge is the person who runs the scenic painting for plays. Sometimes called a charge artist.
My family nickname for 50 ish years. My nephew couldn’t pronounce my given name when he was a tot.
Rhyming slang for the nickname of a cat we once had.
My original name here was Mjollnir. Wanted something a little more catchy, and I had just seen a doc called “That’s Black Entertainment.” One of the featured performers was Earl Snake-Hips Tucker. I liked the name, but make no mistake. I don’t look much like him, and I definitely can’t dance like him (or anyone else, for that matter).
Anything that pissed off Phred Felps is OK in my book!
Me? It’s a name that John Lennon used from time to time. Since he wasn’t using it, I thought I would.
My early days here on the SDMB were pre-google, and it was fun to see people trying to figure out where my screen name came from. Of course there were enough space opera fans here back then for a few folks to recognize me, but most never could puzzle it out.
Anyway, my handle comes from E. E. “Doc” Smith’s book Children of the Lens. A character in that book wrote a novel entitled Qadgop the Mercotan under the pseudonym Sybly Whyte. Here’s all I know about my namesake:
“Qadgop the Mercotan slithered flatly around the afterbulge of the tranship. One claw dug into the meters-thick armor of pure neutronium, then another. Its terrible xmex-like snout locked on. Its zymolosely polydactile tongue crunched out, crashed down, rasped across. Slurp! Slurp! At each abrasive stroke the groove in the tranship’s plating deepened and Qadgop leered more fiercely. Fools! Did they think that the airlessness of absolute space, the heatlessness of absolute zero, the yieldlessness of absolute neutronium, could stop QADGOP THE MERCOTAN? And the stowaway, that human wench Cynthia, cowering in helpless terror just beyond this thin and fragile wall…”
Nothing real mysterious. Peter King Beitz be my name.
I actually don’t remember…
Wow, what breathless prose. What happened to Cynthia?? I have to know! Guess I’ll just have to get the book so I can read the book within the book…
Clematis jackmanii - like me, a classic. 
We had a 'Jackmanii" vine at the old place in Ohio, but none now in Kentucky. Maybe I should change my username to Crinum bulbispermum.
Back in the 80’s I drove race cars at a local short track (that is now a bunch of houses 
). If possible I would use number 72, my favorite NASCAR driver at the time was Benny Parsons and that was his number. In the late 1990’s I got into sim racing and needed a username, hence racer72. Looking at pictures of all the race cars I drove, I drove a car number 74 the most. I would use that if 72 was not available. It was the number of my favorite football player while I was a kid, Bob Lilly of the now hated Dallas Cowboys.
I have an affinity for cars – specifically artistic, beautifully engineered, obscure, unreliable rolling deathtraps.
And Lancias are (or were, before they climbed into bed with Chrysler) the epitome of artistic, beautifully engineered, obscure, unreliable rolling deathtraps.
And I’m not creative enough to come up with something more, well, creative.
I recieved an opposition to a brief I wrote, accusing me of using “proscrustean” arguments. “The adjective refers to something marked by arbitrary or ruthless disregard for individual differences or special circumstances” I think they meant I was trying to make the facts fit my argument instead of basing my argument on the facts.
I had to look it up. I decided I like it, but, of course, I misspelled it.
I noticed a while ago it wasn’t actually ‘soloist’ but that’s still the sound I hear in my head when I read your name. Just noticed that again responding to one of your posts.