# What User Name Was Your Second Choice On This Board? **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/21 "2016-03-28T04:43:42Z")
I seem to recall that I had some reason for not using Cemetery Polka (a Tom Waits song). Or Laiskuri (Finnish for lazy person or slacker) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/22 "2016-03-28T04:57:50Z")
I’m a bit surprised that **Senegoid** was available, although that hadn’t occurred to me at the time I signed up here. Sometime afterward, I googled it for the lulz, and found that the Internet is crawling with **Senegoid** s all over the place! Anybody who knows me IRL and who then comes to this board, I’ll bet would think I’m **dolphinboy** since I used to be all into dolphins (and worked with them for a few years). ---
**Author:** ![Thylacine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thylacine/32/1143_2.png) [@Thylacine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thylacine)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/23 "2016-03-28T05:32:56Z")
This one, I had another I used in a few places as well as here and a friend had a psychotic break and starting searching for me all over the net, Tuba Diva kindly allowed a change to this and a clean slate. I shut the hell up for a while and am much more audience than cast member these days. The original me may have been a '99er, not sure ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/24 "2016-03-28T13:29:26Z")
I considered KeeblerElf but opted for GreenElf because I generally choose shorter usernames. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/25 "2016-03-28T13:42:42Z")
Hello Tittie. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/26 "2016-03-28T13:51:25Z")
Marvin Molar ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/27 "2016-03-28T13:52:34Z")
**kayaker2** ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/28 "2016-03-28T14:07:37Z")
Marf Arflebarfle ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/29 "2016-03-28T14:37:54Z")
I’m Octarine or Octarinefire pretty much everywhere else online so that would have been it. Freaks me out to see Octarine here now. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/30 "2016-03-28T14:40:58Z")
I’d have been amazed if I’d have needed a second choice and it never occurred to me to have one ready. However, had it been necessary, I’d have no doubt come up with something inane or mundane or otherwise unimaginative, as this was my first foray into the world of message boards. Honestly, even now, I have no idea what I’d want to use if I couldn’t be FairyChatMom. When I was a little girl, I wanted to be named Ruth - maybe a variant on that? Who knows… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/31 "2016-03-28T14:53:16Z")
I’m not a good bet to remember what I had for lunch yesterday (as a matter of fact, it was a Big Jack’s with cheese-no onion and a large fry) so remembering over 10 years ago… Most every other place I use my nickname, which is the first half of my last name, sometimes with other letter-number combos. Still, with my current moniker, I probably would have gone with Dominic Flandry or Nicholas Van Rijn if I had too. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/32 "2016-03-28T15:30:26Z")
**ftg** My first choice was **FtG** , but I had a long history of computer interaction where login names starting with caps caused problems so I defaulted to the safer choice automatically. It would have been _so_ easy to check.:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/33 "2016-03-28T16:21:24Z")
MadTV: all the good handles are taken [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/2bJRdusaoCA/hqdefault.jpg "MADtv Porn Names") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bJRdusaoCA) ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/34 "2016-03-28T16:40:07Z")
This IS my second choice nickname. I tried to sign up under my original internet name which I had used on a now-defunct board that closed in 2014, but my request was denied. So I chose this unimaginative, but accurate, one instead. Another one I considered was jeez-oh-pete. ---
**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 28, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/35 "2016-03-28T16:43:24Z")
I started off as Fabulous Creature, but wasn’t manly enough to handle the effeminate connotations of that first word. Had I thought of The New & Improved Superman before someone else did, would hav chosen that. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/36 "2016-03-28T17:04:32Z")
**Oat Willie** , a little known, mostly forgotten Underground Comix creation of Gilbert Shelton. Third choice would have been **Mule Dick** , which is what my lady friends call me. ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/37 "2016-03-28T17:13:10Z")
**Owen Coffin** ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/38 "2016-03-28T17:21:16Z")
This was my second choice. Originally I was **Chief Wahoo** here on the SDMB, but even back then there were a few Chief names, plus one cheif and a couple of Chefs so I thought I should change. Also, people kept thinking I was a Cleveland Indians fan. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/39 "2016-03-28T18:37:36Z")
snowpls I signed up on this board in the early 2000s with another name, forgot about it, and then re-joined in 2012 under my current user name. Yes, I alerted the mods and my prior handle has been shut-down. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-user-name-was-your-second-choice-on-this-board/750404/40 "2016-03-28T19:02:59Z")
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