# What Should My New Username Be **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 8, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-my-new-username-be/531678 "2010-03-08T01:20:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-my-new-username-be/531678/61 "2010-03-10T00:02:20Z")
Definitely **Keep Curtis LeMay**. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-my-new-username-be/531678/62 "2010-03-10T00:10:53Z")
Martial Mayhem! \ ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-my-new-username-be/531678/63 "2010-03-10T00:56:56Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Who the hell is “Jonathon Edwards?” [Do you mean this guy?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edwards) I assumed he meant Jonathan Edwards, author of the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-my-new-username-be/531678/64 "2010-03-10T02:06:51Z")
Vote #1: **Millard Fillmore** Vote #2: **Keep Curtis LeMay** Vote #3: \*\*Keep Curtis LeMay Away From Me! \*\* ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-my-new-username-be/531678/65 "2010-03-10T02:42:48Z")
I believe that the OP has a mandate from the masses: Keep Curtis LeMay! Keep Curtis LeMay!! Keep Curtis LeMay!!! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-my-new-username-be/531678/66 "2010-03-10T09:53:38Z")
With each purhase of **Keep Curtis Lemay** , get one free napalm canister. ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-my-new-username-be/531678/67 "2010-03-10T14:32:18Z")
> [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](#): > > Vote #1: **Millard Fillmore** Given the poster, how about **Mallard Fillmore**? ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-my-new-username-be/531678/68 "2010-03-10T16:23:39Z")
> [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](#): > > Given the poster, how about **Mallard Fillmore**? Seems unfair. I’ve seen occassional hints that Curtis LeMay grasps the concept of humor. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-my-new-username-be/531678/69 "2010-03-10T22:27:06Z")
Is there a deadline for this poll? Or a chance at a revote with the final 3-4 options (as I def. think **Keep Curtis Lemay** should have been an option/is probably in the majority). Or will this thread just lead a quiet death? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-my-new-username-be/531678/70 "2010-03-11T00:36:25Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Major Frank Burns Well, if he’s going to call himself that, why not go all the way and change it to Major Ferret Face? (Not meant to insult you, **Curtis** , just funnin’. “Ferret Face” was Hawkeye and Trapper’s nickname for Frank Burns on M_A_S\*H.) (Actually, Frank Burns was a war-mongering lunatic, too, so…uh…never mind.) ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-my-new-username-be/531678/71 "2010-03-11T01:43:29Z")
> [@ToeJam](#): > > Is there a deadline for this poll? Or a chance at a revote with the final 3-4 options (as I def. think **Keep Curtis Lemay** should have been an option/is probably in the majority). > > Or will this thread just lead a quiet death? \*\* Curtis \*\*hasn’t been around since post #12, so I think it is dying a quiet death now. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-my-new-username-be/531678/72 "2010-03-11T02:12:04Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Just keep the current one. For whatever reason, it irritates the shit out of me when users change their screen names. You and me both. Regards, The former **Rocket88** P. S. I voted **Richard Nixon** before reading this thread, but I’ll jump on the bandwagon and say that **Keep Curtis LeMay** is the best of the lot by far. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-my-new-username-be/531678/73 "2010-03-11T18:06:19Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > VCO4 Ha! > [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I assumed he meant Jonathan Edwards, author of the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” I thought he meant [this guy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Edwards_(athlete)). Anyway, another vote for the landslide that is “Keep Curtis LeMay”. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-my-new-username-be/531678/74 "2010-03-11T21:35:14Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > I vote for **F J**. > > You’ll have to get over Jesus some day, might as well start now. How is this not blatant threadshitting & an unwarranted religious insult? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-my-new-username-be/531678/75 "2010-03-11T21:46:57Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > \*\* > Curtis \*\*hasn’t been around since post #12… I hope he wasn’t swallowed up by The Horror Beyond the Mountains! ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2010, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-my-new-username-be/531678/76 "2010-03-13T04:27:32Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > What about Park Chung Hee? Interesting. I may do the next time I want to change my username. > [@mhendo](#): > > I think he means [this guy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Edwards_%28theologian%29). Yeah. > [@MsWhatsit](#): > > No, sorry, my vote was specifically for you to change your user name to **Keep Curtis LeMay**. If you’re not going to actually consider that a valid poll option, then I think the entire poll is invalid and you should start over. But actually I think you should go with **Keep Curtis LeMay** because that would be awesome. I’ll make a finale poll including both Curtis LeMay and Keep Curtis LeMay. > [@samclem](#): > > Why, at a supposed 13 or so years of age, would you consider changing it to **Sober Alcoholic**? I’m assuming you don’t drink(much), so, what’s up? It’s supposed to be humourous. > [@ToeJam](#): > > Is there a deadline for this poll? Or a chance at a revote with the final 3-4 options (as I def. think **Keep Curtis Lemay** should have been an option/is probably in the majority). > > Or will this thread just lead a quiet death? I’ll close it a week after this poll began and than do a finale poll of “Curtis LeMay”, “Keep Curtis LeMay”, and the second top option. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2010, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-my-new-username-be/531678/77 "2010-03-14T00:16:01Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Why, at a supposed 13 or so years of age, would you consider changing it to **Sober Alcoholic**? I’m assuming you don’t drink(much), so, what’s up? > [@Curtis LeMay](#): > > It’s supposed to be humourous. How so? You DO know there are such people, **Curtis**? (Although the term is usually “recovering alcholic”.) Say someone is an alcoholic, but decides to get help and stop drinking. That person is now sober, but he or she is still an alcoholic – in that the addiction is still there. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-my-new-username-be/531678/78 "2010-03-14T02:57:15Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > How so? You DO know there are such people, **Curtis**? (Although the term is usually “recovering alcholic”.) > > Say someone is an alcoholic, but decides to get help and stop drinking. That person is now sober, but he or she is still an alcoholic – in that the addiction is still there. I never meant to make fun of alcoholics, it just sounded like a catchy username. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2010, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-my-new-username-be/531678/79 "2010-03-14T03:05:50Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > How so? You DO know there are such people, **Curtis**? (Although the term is usually “recovering alcholic”.) > > Say someone is an alcoholic, but decides to get help and stop drinking. That person is now sober, but he or she is still an alcoholic – in that the addiction is still there. Lighten up, Francis. As for the OP, i was wondering whether **Attention Seeker** should have been included in the poll? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2010, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-my-new-username-be/531678/80 "2010-03-14T03:22:40Z")
I wasn’t implying that he was making fun of alcoholics – just that it really didn’t seem to have quite the humorous tone he was going for. That’s all. I got the impression that **Curtis** thought there was some contradiction in the term, when there’s not. _shrugs_ No big deal. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-my-new-username-be/531678.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-my-new-username-be/531678.md?page=5)