# What's the meaning of your userne? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 3, 2014, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-your-userne/680398 "2014-02-03T03:47:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Artemis\_Tardis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@Artemis\_Tardis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Artemis_Tardis)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-your-userne/680398/1 "2014-02-03T03:47:13Z")
Demian is one of the main character of my favourite book - Demian, by Herman Hesse. Travis is just Tardis written on a very different way. What bout you dopers? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-your-userne/680398/2 "2014-02-03T03:51:00Z")
Der Trihs is a character in the webcomic Schlock Mercenary. He had a strong tendency to end up a casualty; losing limbs and occasionally being reduced to a head on life support. The name is itself an allusion; it’s “Red Shirt” backwards, a reference to the red shirted security guys in the original Star Trek who tended to die a lot. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-your-userne/680398/3 "2014-02-03T03:56:16Z")
Beats me. ---
**Author:** ![Boogly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Boogly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boogly)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-your-userne/680398/4 "2014-02-03T04:00:46Z")
Cuz I’m Big and Oogly ---
**Author:** ![Kansas\_Beekeeper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kansas\_Beekeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kansas_Beekeeper)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-your-userne/680398/5 "2014-02-03T04:03:49Z")
I live in Kansas and my one of my main hobbies for years was keeping bees. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-your-userne/680398/6 "2014-02-03T04:18:01Z")
Won it in a “Name The Straight Dope Moderator” poll. I used to be _slythe_, and came damn close to becoming _Chicken Of Bristol_. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-your-userne/680398/7 "2014-02-03T04:19:08Z")
The name of a pet. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-your-userne/680398/8 "2014-02-03T04:24:20Z")
Spanish for hummingbird, the subject of my doctoral thesis in Panama. Easier to spell than Huitzilopochtli. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-your-userne/680398/9 "2014-02-03T04:31:23Z")
It’s a reference to the song “Accidentally Like a Martyr” by Warren Zevon. Two very different versions of the song for anyone that might be interested. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/FfbntRA0xdo/maxresdefault.jpg "Warren Zevon- Accidentally Like A Martyr") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfbntRA0xdo) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wN61bPjmcGY/hqdefault.jpg "warren zevon -accidentally like a martyr") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN61bPjmcGY) ---
**Author:** ![yawuntz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a5b964/32.png) [@yawuntz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yawuntz)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-your-userne/680398/10 "2014-02-03T04:34:42Z")
I explained mine already. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-your-userne/680398/11 "2014-02-03T04:38:51Z")
[Comic book character](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_pope) ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-your-userne/680398/12 "2014-02-03T04:46:33Z")
There are a whole lot of us who are charters from the _Discworld_ series. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-your-userne/680398/13 "2014-02-03T05:40:28Z")
After Bob Dylan’s song “[Visions of Johanna](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visions_of_Johanna).” ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-your-userne/680398/14 "2014-02-03T05:45:26Z")
I like hockey, and I grew up in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Silvorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Silvorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silvorange)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-your-userne/680398/15 "2014-02-03T05:47:11Z")
Once I was filling out one of those online “how well do you know me” quizzes for an acquaintance that I didn’t know very well at all, so I was making up a lot of silly answers. When it came to “What’s my favorite color? “ I squished two together for” Silvorange, the doubly unrhymable." I would have stuck purple in there too if I could have. I have used it as a name in a couple of places since then. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-your-userne/680398/16 "2014-02-03T05:47:55Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Spanish for hummingbird, the subject of my doctoral thesis in Panama. Easier to spell than Huitzilopochtli. I didn’t know that. I mean, I knew about your vocation, but didn’t know that colibri was Spanish for hummingbird. What a great username! ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-your-userne/680398/17 "2014-02-03T05:53:49Z")
[_Adam Penfeather, Buccaneer_](http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/farnol-penfeather/farnol-penfeather-00-h.html). > [@](#): > > Well, now, my poor orphan, I says you can scupper, sink and burn me if this an’t a precious sorry business for any dutiful son, and mighty heart-breaking! So, my lad, your present need is rum forthwith—rum and plenty on’t. So bowse up, lad, stand away wi’ me and rum it shall be. They don’t write 'em like that any more. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-your-userne/680398/18 "2014-02-03T06:14:09Z")
Name of the starship from my novel, which long predates that Star Trek travesty. ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-your-userne/680398/19 "2014-02-03T06:15:15Z")
I like fog and I live in San Francisco. Every user name I have ever had, had the word fog in it. I wish I had stuck with **Psychofogqueen**. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-your-userne/680398/20 "2014-02-03T06:17:00Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > [_Adam Penfeather, Buccaneer_](http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/farnol-penfeather/farnol-penfeather-00-h.html). > > They don’t write 'em like that any more. Who is the username “Greg Kihn” for $200 Alex. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-your-userne/680398.md?page=2)