# What's the meaning behind your SDMB user name? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 11, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-behind-your-sdmb-user-name/201032 "2003-09-11T20:14:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-behind-your-sdmb-user-name/201032/121 "2003-09-14T02:58:36Z")
HA!!! Well Fnoonf, maybe you can do something retro. Like create a new name, maybe fnooonf? That would make it kind of a pseudo-palindrome. Could you live with that? Or perhaps, theposterformerlyknownasFnoonf? But then again, good ol’ Fnoonf is just fine by me. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-behind-your-sdmb-user-name/201032/122 "2003-09-14T03:57:53Z")
Pretty easy. I’m a Senior Airman in the Air Force (Air National Guard), and my favorite band is the Doors, all put into one euphonious Gomer Pyle-type screenname. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-behind-your-sdmb-user-name/201032/123 "2003-09-14T07:25:39Z")
I probably mentioned this in many other threads, but I just decided to choose a name the first time I found a chat room and randomly chose lel. It’s just become part of my online identity over the years. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Jenkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Brown\_Jenkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Jenkin)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-behind-your-sdmb-user-name/201032/124 "2003-09-14T08:25:28Z")
Little Man from Another Place, aka [“The Arm”.](http://www.twinpeaks.org/archives/images/jpgs/formicula_table.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-behind-your-sdmb-user-name/201032/125 "2003-09-14T10:16:42Z")
I like ‘lel’ One can give a lel = smack in Dutch. Or one can be a lellebel = [ahem] a ‘loose’ woman. ---
**Author:** ![pencilpusher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d6d6ee/32.png) [@pencilpusher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pencilpusher)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-behind-your-sdmb-user-name/201032/126 "2003-09-14T16:48:38Z")
Pencil Pusher… I was a truck driver before getting injured now I’m a desk jockey hence the name. ---
**Author:** ![sc913](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@sc913](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sc913)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-behind-your-sdmb-user-name/201032/127 "2003-09-14T18:34:58Z")
It means “my initials and three random numbers”. Delving deeper: “I’m not remotely cool enough to come up with a great and original name, and all the common ones I could think of were taken, and all I wanted to do at the time was a search through the archives, and I was really frustrated, and I’ve been meaning to have it changed-by-admin but never got around to it, damn it!” ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-behind-your-sdmb-user-name/201032/128 "2003-09-14T18:39:55Z")
A couple of years ago I saw my first name spelled in Hebrew. I thought it was different and kind of nice. When I got around to getting my own email address, that’s what came to mind. I think there was already an aryk so I appended 29 which is my lucky number. So everywhere I go on the 'net I’ve been aryk29 ever since, and haven’t ever seen anybody else using the name. No, I’m not Jewish. ---
**Author:** ![sultana\_of\_slash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@sultana\_of\_slash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sultana_of_slash)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-behind-your-sdmb-user-name/201032/129 "2003-09-14T18:42:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CrazyCatLady \* > \*\*I have a burning ambition to someday be the weird old lady down the street with all the cats, the one all the neighborhood kids are scared of. Dolly the Vicious Attack Hound and Claudia the Vunderhund don’t approve of this plan, but nobody asked for their opinions. \*\* Oh, God, I love this. ---
**Author:** ![sultana\_of\_slash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@sultana\_of\_slash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sultana_of_slash)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-behind-your-sdmb-user-name/201032/130 "2003-09-14T19:10:38Z")
Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat. I cannot swat a baseball with a bat to save my frickin’ life. On the other hand, I have done 2000+ autopsies and counting. I wield a mean scalpel. And I’m a laaaady… all right I am female. ---
**Author:** ![MPangloss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@MPangloss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPangloss)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-behind-your-sdmb-user-name/201032/131 "2003-09-14T19:38:12Z")
Well its as good a reason as any to jump in… Pangloss was the character (a royal advisor of some sort) in Voltaire’s ‘Candide’ who was best known for exclaiming “…its all for the best!” ‘M’ stands for Marvelous which is how he was usually addressed. Aren’t you sorry you asked?? ---
**Author:** ![Yersinia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6bbea6/32.png) [@Yersinia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yersinia)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-behind-your-sdmb-user-name/201032/132 "2003-09-14T20:04:53Z")
Mine’s pretty straightforward. Yersinia pestis is the bacterium that causes bubonic plague (pneumonic and septicemic too). I’m an ex-microbiologist with a really bizarre/sick/twisted/warped sense of humor. ---
**Author:** ![qwanderer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ea924/32.png) [@qwanderer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qwanderer)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-behind-your-sdmb-user-name/201032/133 "2003-09-14T20:20:48Z")
Hi. I’m **Q. Wanderer**. The first couple of times I used the name I bothered to spell it out this way. It’s a combination of the meaning of my middle name, the word quandary, and a Star Trek character. When I went to get an AIM name, it was taken! I couldn’t believe it! So I stuck a 7 on the end, representing my lucky number and yet another Trek character. Most of my online wanderings are under this name, but when I started posting Discworld fanfiction, I chose the name, **Leona da Quirm**. Now that’s an interesting story. I basically _am_ Leonard da Quirm, but the name didn’t quite fit. There were two problems. So I pounded out two letters from the name, and now it fits perfectly. Just like Angua’s armor. Sorry to those who don’t get it, you just have to read _Guards, Guards!_ by Terry Pratchett. And probably _Men at Arms_. And while you’re at it read _Feet of Clay_. The best book in the world. yeah. Sometime I should tell the story of how I became half of **Dangerous Beens**. ---
**Author:** ![bittersweet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@bittersweet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bittersweet)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-behind-your-sdmb-user-name/201032/134 "2003-09-14T21:50:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Crunchy Frog \* > \*\*…it’s from a Monty Python sketch in which the police show up to a man who’s making chocolates. One of the confections is named “Crunchy Frog”. The policeman learns that the chocolate contains a real raw frog and when asking why they don’t even take the bones out, the reply is, “If we took the bones out it wouldn’t be crunchy, now would it?” \*\* I love that sketch! Didn’t they also have a flavor called “Anthrax Truffle”, or something along those lines? My username pretty much sums me up: I’m **bitter** from much of the crap I’ve had to deal with over the past few years, yet there’s still a **sweet** side to me. I’m not completely jaded, only about 75% or so. ---
**Author:** ![LadyAmalthea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f04885/32.png) [@LadyAmalthea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LadyAmalthea)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-behind-your-sdmb-user-name/201032/135 "2003-09-15T01:57:03Z")
Ever see the film, _The Last Unicorn_? I used to be a unicorn. ---
**Author:** ![Swoop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Swoop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swoop)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-behind-your-sdmb-user-name/201032/136 "2003-09-15T10:44:45Z")
Ah, I don’t have a lot of 'net time, certainly not enough to actually participate in a forum like this, and I was aware of this when I signed up so I figured I’d just take the unmysterious practical and truthful route of aptly describing my posting style to-be. One day, some day in the future, I hope I’ll have a name like Stay. (I really do enjoy SDMB and the people it keeps, would love to get more involved (more? ok, just involved) but… 'tis not to be for now. Sniff.) ---
**Author:** ![frookah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@frookah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frookah)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-behind-your-sdmb-user-name/201032/137 "2003-09-15T14:38:37Z")
Freddy Mercury’s real name is Ferhook. I’m always some variation on that, plus a nice girlie a, or ah on the end.😃 ---
**Author:** ![mipiace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@mipiace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mipiace)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-behind-your-sdmb-user-name/201032/138 "2003-09-15T15:28:30Z")
Mine is from an Italian pop song by Alex Britti Mi Piace _pero mi piace…but I like it_ It’s really just what I happened to be listening to the first time I logged into SDMB ---
**Author:** ![Age\_Quod\_Agis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d07c76/32.png) [@Age\_Quod\_Agis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Age_Quod_Agis)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-behind-your-sdmb-user-name/201032/139 "2003-09-15T23:35:08Z")
“Age Quod Agis” is latin for “Do what you are doing.” It’s typically used in the sense of “Do what you are doing well.” In other words, “Concentrate.” I was at work and didn’t feel like working, so I was searching SDMB and decided to finally un-lurk. I tried any number of screen names, but all the ones I came up with were taken. Before I knew it, I’d wasted 20 minutes trying to come up with a screen name. This was my way of telling myself to get back to work . . . and I thought it might be appropriate in case I posted in GD. ---
**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-behind-your-sdmb-user-name/201032/140 "2003-09-15T23:55:34Z")
> [@](#): > > Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat. > I cannot swat a baseball with a bat to save my frickin’ life. > On the other hand, I have done 2000+ autopsies and counting. > I wield a mean scalpel. > And I’m a laaaady… all right I am female. And I thought you just wrote slashfic stories… 😛 I like using random adjective-noun combinations for usernames. In retrospect I should have put a bit more thought into it - meeh… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-behind-your-sdmb-user-name/201032.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-behind-your-sdmb-user-name/201032.md?page=8)