# What's the meaning of your userne?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-your-userne/680398>\
**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")\
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**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-your-userne/680398/31 "2014-02-03T07:12:06Z")

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From 2003:

> [@What's Your Username Mean?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-username-mean/168324/79):
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> At one time I was working in a factory and bet a co-worker I could grind a pallet of parts by hand faster than an automated machine the company paid big bucks for.
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> I won and people started to tack the letters -ziod onto the end of my name I guess to indiacte I was part machine.

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