# What User Name Was Your Second Choice On This Board?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 27, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404 "2016-03-27T22:36:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/1 "2016-03-27T22:36:22Z")
If I hadn’t been **Penfeather** here, I would have gone for **Fossil Sausage**.
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### Author:  [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2016, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/2 "2016-03-27T22:41:41Z")
Back when I joined there were only about thirty names already claimed.
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### Author:  [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/3 "2016-03-27T22:43:12Z")
I would have used my pre-internet biker name (Lurker) but it was already taken. Variations didn’t excite me.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2016, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/4 "2016-03-27T22:54:57Z")
Captain Zero
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### Author:  [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2016, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/5 "2016-03-27T22:55:55Z")
The one I’m using.
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### Author:  [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2016, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/6 "2016-03-27T23:11:27Z")
Silas Sparkhammer.
Corolonikes.
Lurid Panache.
Rounceval Chesterhert Leds.
Thanopanicon.
Pharnastuum.
So many pretty (nonsenical!) names. (The first is from Jack Vance; the rest are my own inventions.)
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### Author:  [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2016, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/7 "2016-03-27T23:13:49Z")
What a question, fifteen years later.
Kali, probably. That was my Very First Handle Ever.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/8 "2016-03-27T23:37:31Z")
Probably Blackthorn. It’s my SCA last name, and I was fairly active in the SCA back then.
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### Author:  [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2016, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/9 "2016-03-28T00:08:24Z")
Probably Golgo-13. It was a name I’d already been using for years at [AR15.com](http://AR15.com) and The Firing Line.
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### Author:  [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/10 "2016-03-28T00:10:49Z")
Yawstring
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### Author:  [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/11 "2016-03-28T00:59:05Z")
**A trophy guy**. I actually like this one better but didn’t think of it until after my current username.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2016, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/12 "2016-03-28T01:25:46Z")
This one. When I first signed up, in my naivety I used my real name as my User Name. Finally deciding maybe that was not a good idea, I started a new account as **Siam Sam** and never used the original again. I don’t know how Admin learned about it, but I got a message saying I was banned for having two accounts. After e-mailing them and explaining the situation, they let me back on, changing all my original posts to my present User Name.
My third choice would be **Bigus Dickus**.
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2016, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/13 "2016-03-28T01:39:22Z")
hard to say
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2016, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/14 "2016-03-28T01:45:03Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#):
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> hard to say
And your third choice?
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2016, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/15 "2016-03-28T02:00:58Z")
I kinda miss my old handle, but I think it was wise to change it given the level of personal detail I’ve revealed on this board and how very specific it was to my actual real life identity.
I kind of love **Spice Weasel** , though, too. Futurama is one of my favorite things and the concept of the spice weasel is totally myself. Other Futurama handles I have used include **Buggalo** and **Squiddification** and those are solid choices IMO.
On the Giraffe boards (I think) I was **Why I am a Destiny** , which might be my altnerative choice here. It’s a ridiculous over the top reference to one of Nietzsche’s most egomaniacal works, Twilight of the Idols. He had chapters titled ‘‘Why I write Such Great Books’’ and ‘‘Why I am a Destiny’’ and I find his arrogance objectively hilarious.
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2016, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/16 "2016-03-28T02:02:21Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> And your third choice?
if time permits
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### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2016, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/17 "2016-03-28T02:13:16Z")
The English form of Rivkah is Rebecca, and I actually went by that briefly. When I can’t have RivkahChaya as a user name (which is just my name) because it’s in my email, and a few places demand a user name different from your email, I go with TheFirstMrsDeWinter.
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### Author:  [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2016, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/18 "2016-03-28T03:56:44Z")
guest{some number I was assigned until I actually chose a user name} is what I would have used if chaz wasn’t available. Not sure why, now, I stuck with the guest part of it.
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### Author:  [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2016, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/19 "2016-03-28T03:59:40Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> My third choice would be **Bigus Dickus**.
Not Naughtius Maximus or Sillius Soddus?
(I’ll bypass referring to Incontinentia Buttocks just in case she reads this)
😉
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### Author:  [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2016, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/20 "2016-03-28T04:11:16Z")
I don’t even know. I’ve never been to a site where Rhiannon8404 was already taken.
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