A Doper shamelessly whoring himself to get me to buy the first round.
SOLD! 
A former co-worker used the word, and special voice, very often. It always made me laugh and it stuck in my brain.
God as my witness, I had no idea what it meant…
Dopers, we must hijack this thread. I’m serious. spooje doesn’t know where his name came from.
I hate that it has to be done, and should probably start a new thread to figure it out, but I’m too damn lazy to start a new thread.
So let’s start a sub-thread. When you explain (or if you already did) what your Dopername means, include what spooje may mean.
What I meant was this. I did not, at the time, know that ‘spooge’ (as it is normally spelled) was a euphamism for semen. I thought it was a catch-all phrase for any unidentified fluid or something.
I am named after my favorite recreational drug from my youth.
Two guesses, people.
Actually, my usual nick was taken. And I like this one better, anyway.
'one day Rufus found a kangaroo that followed Rufus home and now that kangaroo belongs to Rufus Xavier Sarsparilla. Whew! I could say that, but I don’t have to, ‘cause I got pronouns.’
- Rufus Xavier Sarsparilla, lyrics by Kathy Mandary
When I was band managing there was a light rental company run by a guy who called himself Ellis Dee Fogg. Naturally he got all my business.
Eh, mine’s just a random assortment of letters that I threw together which have no meaning whatsoever.
Damn, now I’m singing to myself!
Mine’s easy- my husband’s initials are EJ, so I’m EJ’s girl! I used to have it on my license plate too, but hubby made me take it off. You never know who might see you driving around and turn out to be some message board psychopath…
Present company excepted, of course!
I thought I heard this question before, and so I have:
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Back in the prehistory of computer communications, some of us ran our own dial-in bulletin boards on our home computers. Instead of logging onto the web, you’d dial up somebody’s home phone that was (during certain hours) connected to the phone lines. It was sort of like a one-at-a-time message board. Some folks even had a dedicated line just for the computer. Some systems (I was part of S-net) would have certain computers call each other (usually in the wee hours) and exchange information so that all the posts on each of the computers in the system could be exchanged. There was some thing called “usenet” out there, but I only heard vague rumors.
With the help of a friend, I ran (for a month or three) a bulletin board in Spokane, Washington called “the Criminal Underground”. I had three personas on that BBS (no, wait, it was four): Professor Moriarity (the Sysop), Moose and Rocko (the “goons”), and the “Perfessor” who would give an interesting but only semifactual (if that) answer to any question you might ask.
Some BBSs preferred you to have a user name that went along with the theme (or not – it really depended on who ran the BBS you were logged in to). At various times I was the Bat-Winged-Hamburger-Snatcher (one o’ my faves), BWHS, /\BW/, /^^/, The Great and Powerful Turtle, TGAPT, and lastly, Baloo (inspired by the character from the Jungle Book and also from Disney’s Tale Spin, which happened to be airing about then.
Fast forward years later and the only one that was still with me that anyone would likely “get” was Baloo. Then came the great computer crash (and subsequent wallet-drain) of Winter2000.
Three years later and I could not remember my password to any account at all. So I just took the highest rank I achieved in the USAF and tacked it on the front. If you google “Baloo” you’ll get more than 150,000 hits, nearly all of them not me (maybe all of them not me ;)). However, if you google SSgtBaloo, you’ll get just over 200 hits, and it’s probably all me.
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–SSgtBaloo
- Yeah, I know, I quoted the whole reply verbatim, but at least you can check out the answers given just a few months ago (or longer, if you’re looking at this thread a few years from now).
OK, fine with me. But while imbibing or quaffing our favorite beverages, we will be required to listen to Merle Haggard sing a ditty or two.
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When I first clambered onto the Web back in, oh, '95 or so, my first serious non-vanity web pages were about a solar-powered house built by a friend. Hence, “Sunspace”. And I’m the proud owner of sunspace.org as well. 
Sandy Hook, KY where I was born, lo those many years past.
For all of my adult life, everytime I appear at some gathering, holiday, vacation, family event; I am ‘pullin’ something behind my truck. Boat, RV, go-kart, utility trlr… you name it. There is always something behind my truck. Currently we pull a set of trailers (yes, that’s plural), such that when we head out for the weekend, our total vehicle has 12 wheels (on the ground), weighs about 18000 lbs., is 8.5 feet wide, and is 67 feet long. My mom started this with her greeting: “well, what’re ya’ll pullin’ this time?”. Hence my user name.
At some point I became obsessed with the 1930’s Brooklyn Dodgers pitching great…
Van Lingle Mungo.
Here’s a site with some more info.
Actually, I’ve been considering changing it.
“moonbunny” is a reference to two things…
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Sailor Moon. Her Japanese name is Tsukino Usagi, or “Rabbit of the Moon”
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an ancient fairy tale about the “Rabbit in the Moon.” I’ve alternately heard Mayan, Chinese and Japanese versions.
I’m a very nocturnal person, and next to cats, rabbits are my favorite animals. My long-distance-almost-boyfriend-but-not-quite, who is a rather talented artist, drew me a logo for my LiveJournal that we subsequently called the MoonBunny. It’s beautiful. I love my LDABBNQ.
Mine comes from the Beatles’ song filtered through a Dave Barry joke.
Back in High School, I was reading his Guide to Cyberspace, and was joking with some friends about the emoticons he had made up and about the famous phrases he had attached them to, such as:
It was the best of times It was the worst of times 
We came up with many, but the one that really stuck was
I am the walrus (:3=
Since then it has been my username everywhere that someone hasn’t already taken it (I’m thewalrusami in many places), but, sadly, very few places let you include the non-alphanumeric characters that you need to make the joke work.
Always liked the book, and especially the character I’m named after. Very prosaic, really.
I used to be FireUnderpantsBoobs. That was a name made up by a six-year-old, proclaiming that he would no longer answer to “Bradley” anymore.
Now I’m AwSnappity (obviously). It’s a bastardization of the once-popular-but-not-really-anymore phrase “Aw, snap!” “Aw, snappity!” is something that one of my friends used to say when he found himself in a situation where he had made a small mistake, for instance running a red light. He would say, “Aw, snappity!” in a goofy voice and that would make him feel a little better.
Truth be told, I don’t particularly like this username anymore, but I’m hanging onto it because I’m not sure if two name changes are allowed, plus I don’t want to keep explaining to others who I am.