# What is the significance of your username? **URL:** \ **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:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Strangelove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/21 "2006-01-02T01:03:14Z")
Mine is acutally a misspelling of my maiden name and my married name together. If I ever actually go back to school and get a PhD, I’m going to start hypheating and not care if people get the maiden name part wrong. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/22 "2006-01-02T01:30:58Z")
Mine is a conbination of my 2 dog breeds - **PAP** illons and Gordon **SETT** ers 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/23 "2006-01-02T02:43:05Z")
It is the main character from _The Man Who Never Missed_. I was feeling lazy when I joined and picked a book at random off the shelf and grabbed a name. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/24 "2006-01-02T02:47:42Z")
[Lamar Mundane](http://mail.pepperguy.com/movies/) ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/25 "2006-01-02T03:35:30Z")
The user name comes from a board I used to be on relating to Hawaiian politics: William Quinn was the last appointive and the first elected Governor of Hawaii. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/26 "2006-01-02T03:43:19Z")
I love Calvin and Hobbes. [Susie Derkins](http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y152/susie_derkins21/Susie2.gif) is Calvin’s long-suffering neighbor/classmate. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/27 "2006-01-02T03:50:46Z")
Lumpy is short for Lumpenprole, a term from Marxism for the social class of: “marginal and unemployable workers of debased and irregular habits, and including paupers, beggers and thieves”. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/28 "2006-01-02T05:07:59Z")
I’m a big J.R.R. Tolkien fan. In his books, Elendil was one of the great Kings of Men in ancient times, and was slain while fighting the Dark Lord Sauron (see the first five minutes of “The Fellowship of the Ring”). I’d be honored - and very surprised! - to actually be a descendant of his. If he weren’t, you know, fictional and all. **Mr. Blue Sky** and **Susie Derkins** , I recognized the references made by both your names - and commend you for them! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/29 "2006-01-02T05:11:39Z")
It’s my name in real life. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/30 "2006-01-02T05:34:32Z")
My .sig in the early days of the internet (back when everyone was using unix) was “electrical engineer, computer geek (er, programmer) and no talent bum musician”, which I think sums me up about as well as any one line description could. When I signed up for a yahoo account many years later, the closest I could get to that was engineer\_comp\_geek. I didn’t even have enough letters available to spell out “computer”. I kept the same name when I signed up here. ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/31 "2006-01-02T05:58:05Z")
I love books and was born in 1957 Boring yes but true. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/32 "2006-01-02T06:22:38Z")
I love to sing, so I entered the word “singer” into a thesaurus and “chanteuse” was my favorite synonym. I used to be **Mayflower** , because I was born in May, but after having that name in various forms on lots of different sites, I got tired of it and the mods here were kind enough to grant me a name change! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/33 "2006-01-02T06:45:46Z")
A friend once told me I was a good egg, and I just liked the moniker. ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980/34 "2006-01-02T07:06:34Z")
I earned the title “Oven Wench” while working at a pastry bakery. At home, the whole kitchen is my domain, hence Kitchen Wench. I’m also a pretty good cook. 🙂 Before I had my named changed to KW, I was Seeker74. I got it from the Who song, The Seeker + my birth year. It seemed no one got the reference, and it was boring and not very memorable. I’m pleased to report that I’m not _as_ ignored now with the new pseudonym. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-significance-of-your-username/337980.md?page=1)