# What is the significance of your username?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 1, 2006, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980 "2006-01-01T19:40:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2006, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/1 "2006-01-01T19:40:10Z")
Just a quick getting to know you thread. How did you pick your username? Is there a story behind it?
Nothing special behind mine. I’m called Schwartz, and I am an NCO in the Army. I guess I am just not very creative, are you?
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### Author:  [@Ins\_Outs\_What-have-yous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ins_Outs_What-have-yous)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/2 "2006-01-01T19:53:16Z")
For me, I worked for an architect each summer from 2000 to 2004. In May 2006, I’m about to graduate with a degree in engineering but the name may stick around anyway.
See [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=289873&page=1&highlight=username) which essentially asks the same question in the OP.
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### Author:  [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2006, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/3 "2006-01-01T20:00:08Z")
I have made many trips to Vegas and I like the “Viva Las Vegas” song. But since people call the town “Lost Wages…” Well, you can see the rest. Simple, really.
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### Author:  [@Ins\_Outs\_What-have-yous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ins_Outs_What-have-yous)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/4 "2006-01-01T20:01:08Z")
And, of course, welcome to the SDMB, Sgt Schwartz!
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### Author:  [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/5 "2006-01-01T20:07:05Z")
Thanks, ArchitectChore. 🙂 I felt sure someone had asked this before, but I was blocked on the search.
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### Author:  [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2006, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/6 "2006-01-01T20:27:49Z")
I decided one day that I wanted to be semi-anonymous (i.e. I know I can be traced, but didn’t want someone that actually knows me to recognize me at a glance), but I don’t have a particularly good imagination, so I just picked an intentional mispelling of “Canadian” (which I am).
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/7 "2006-01-01T21:10:38Z")
I like mythology and have always thought _Æsir_ was a cool looking word.
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### Author:  [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2006, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/8 "2006-01-01T21:12:39Z")
Absolutlely none. It was the first phrase I could come up with that hadn’t been taken as a user name.
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### Author:  [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2006, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/9 "2006-01-01T21:19:25Z")
I drove race cars for many years and still race online with a computer game. I generally drove a car numbered 72 and still do online. Made coming up with a user name easy.
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### Author:  [@Ins\_Outs\_What-have-yous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ins_Outs_What-have-yous)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2006, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/10 "2006-01-01T21:19:38Z")
> [@](#):
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> Thanks, ArchitectChore. I felt sure someone had asked this before, but I was blocked on the search.
These username threads get started now and then, but some of us folk in Doperland are happy to respond.
Searching the archives is the primary reason I paid my membership fee. I do like to post occasionally but, as you can see, my post count is not very high for someone who’s been here 4+ years.
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/11 "2006-01-01T21:48:05Z")
\*\*Anaamika \*\*means The Girl With No Name, or colloquially, anonymous, in Hindi. I thought it was appropriate for a message board.
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### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/12 "2006-01-01T22:18:17Z")
Welcome **Sgt Schwartz**.
My username used to be Dolores Claiborne, from the book by Stephen King. I tried to pick a name that sort of reflected my situation at the time, as well as show that I was female and a King fan.
Five years later, things have changed on the personal front, so I had the mods change it to Dolores Reborn. Still recognizable as me, I think.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2006, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/13 "2006-01-01T22:26:20Z")
Mine comes from the Electric Light Orchestra album _Out of the Blue_. It’s my favorite album by my favorite group.
It’s also ironic since I don’t _appear_ to be the happiest guy around.
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### Author:  [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/14 "2006-01-01T22:31:50Z")
My name is Sandra, and I live in New Zealand. Sometimes, just for variety, I use sandrakiwi as my username, but here (as with most places), I’m sandra\_nz
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### Author:  [@RunSilent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RunSilent)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2006, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/15 "2006-01-01T22:44:17Z")
When I was a youngster, I played alot of sports… but I was a quiet kid, and somebody gave me the nickname of RunSilent… named after the movie, ‘Run Silent, Run Deep.’
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### Author:  [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2006, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/16 "2006-01-01T23:31:35Z")
I’m the Transportation Director for a fairly large school district. About 10,000 kids each day ride my buses.
At the beginning of the school year in Fall '04, there was this one HS girl that could not find her correct bus to save her life. Understand that the first week or so can be a little chatotic with kids learning new lineups and drivers.
I hang around at the high schools the first week, because that’s where we have the most problems. So this girl, by the third day of school would just come out, find me and we’d find her bus together.
One day I was at the high school after school on other business. I’m minding my own business walking doen the hall and I hear a scream from behind me: "Hey, Mr Bus Guy!
So, yeah. I’m the Bus Guy.
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### Author:  [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/17 "2006-01-01T23:38:13Z")
It is what i came up with on the spur of the moment when i FINALY decided to register. I had Lurked here for a few years.
BTW make me an offer, the rent is cheap 😉
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### Author:  [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/18 "2006-01-01T23:44:18Z")
It’s from an essay by Hunter S. Thompson (“The Song of the Sausage Creature”) about riders of cafe racers that have been in nasty wrecks. I have motorcycling on the brain, always have. And in an effort not to resemble my username, I’m getting an MSF course for my birthday.
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/19 "2006-01-01T23:49:32Z")
I’m a big fan of the Warner Bros. cartoons.
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/20 "2006-01-02T01:03:04Z")
> [@Mr Bus Guy](#):
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> At the beginning of the school year in Fall '04, there was this one HS girl that could not find her correct bus to save her life. Understand that the first week or so can be a little chatotic with kids learning new lineups and drivers.
> I hang around at the high schools the first week, because that’s where we have the most problems. So this girl, by the third day of school would just come out, find me and we’d find her bus together.
Are you kidding? Because that is really nice. I could never find my freakin’ bus and everyone ws so obnoxious, acting like I was an idiot for not knowing. I had no license, didn’t drive, and no compas in my head, so I wasn’t too familiar with where I lived, and I lived the furthest away possible you could, too. And there wer elike 25 buses! It isn’t that easy. It’s nice to hear some bus guys are helpful.
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