# What's the story behind your screen name? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 29, 2012, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498 "2012-12-29T17:04:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/61 "2012-12-31T16:12:38Z")
Stupid play on words; I’m 6’8". I didn’t realize that the time that people would think it was a reference to eating vomit. Ecch. I’d do it over given the chance. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/62 "2012-12-31T16:17:00Z")
I happened to be reading a collection of _Little Nemo in Slumberland_ comic strips the day I picked my username. True story. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Burro\_Buenmozo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@El\_Burro\_Buenmozo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Burro_Buenmozo)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/63 "2012-12-31T16:19:33Z")
I’m the handsome donkey. I used to fight my nature- slow, only happy when carrying a heavy load, completely obstinate. Now I accept it and revel in who I am- a deliberate ploddder, strong, patient, gentle, and according to some, good looking in a rustic way. Hee haw and adiós, bitches! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/64 "2012-12-31T16:21:14Z")
I am a Simpsons fan. Not so much now, as in the past. I’ve been hrhomer, or “Home Run Homer,” since about 1998, whenever I need a username, if it’s available. ---
**Author:** ![2gigch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2gigch1/32/3313_2.png) [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/65 "2012-12-31T16:24:05Z")
Two gigahertz, channel one, the primary mobile microwave transmission frequency of the tv station I worked at when I became internet aware and needed an email login. [Here’s my microwave truck, with Christmas lights on it.](http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg596/2gigch1/D0BAD9B3-F3DE-4977-A226-2E7D67184667-33170-0000239634C428DE.jpg) To my knowledge no-one has ever used this screen name but me, and as I have enough clues tied to my real self, I always act as if I am a known quantity and behave accordingly. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/66 "2012-12-31T16:25:18Z")
The property I live on is named “Camp P”. ---
**Author:** ![2gigch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2gigch1/32/3313_2.png) [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/67 "2012-12-31T16:28:56Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Stupid play on words; I’m 6’8". > > I didn’t realize that the time that people would think it was a reference to eating vomit. Ecch. I’d do it over given the chance. Oh I’m actually glad to read this explanation - I always took it as [68 in the Urban Dictionary sense](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=68), which kinda gave me a slightly unfavorable view. Much better now! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/68 "2012-12-31T16:31:29Z")
> [@UsernameTaken](#): > > Mine just comes from pure obnoxiousness 🙂 > > I just signed up today, and I tried a few usernames, all of which were taken. So, I thought “UsernameTaken” would be somewhat amusing, especially if some other frustrated would-be user tries it out of spite to find it taken 🙂 Welcome to the Straight Dope, **UsernameTaken**! ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/69 "2012-12-31T16:42:31Z")
> [@2gigch1](#): > > Oh I’m actually glad to read this explanation - I always took it as [68 in the Urban Dictionary sense](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=68), which kinda gave me a slightly unfavorable view. > > Much better now! Aw crap, that crossed my mind not too long ago as well. I was hoping nobody would make that association, but I guess you’re probably not the only one. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/70 "2012-12-31T16:44:35Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Stupid play on words; I’m 6’8". A while back, that was my guess, 6’ 8". ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/71 "2012-12-31T16:46:07Z")
My husband and I knew each other for 14 years before we got together and would occassionally go on a date. One time when I was 25 he dropped me off at home after the movies and put a piece of Juicy Fruit gum in his mouth and I leaned over and kissed him goodbye. A few weeks later I was making my Hotmail account and the usernames I always used were taken, and that scene popped into my head so I went with “JuicyFruitKisses.” Well I used that screen name for everything so I wanted something different (read: less traceable) for The Dope, and I’d recently watched Soylent Green so I had the phrase “Soylent Green is…people!” stuck in my head - hence, “Soylent Juicy.” ---
**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:** [December 31, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/72 "2012-12-31T16:49:19Z")
Circa 1997/98, I was part of a work-associated chat room. In the course of a silly, non-work-related chat one day, a friend dubbed me FairyChatMother. That was too long to use - we were limited to 12-character usernames, so Mother became Mom. I’ve used it ever since in various places. So far, I’m the only one who turns up when I google it, so that’s good. So far… ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/73 "2012-12-31T16:53:59Z")
**echo7tango** : back in my military days, whenever my boss wanted to talk to me on the radio, instead of saying my name in the clear he’d call for me by echo7tango. Echo is for “E” and Tango is for “T” in the military. My rank was E-7 and my last name begins with T. Not very imaginative but I thought it sounded cool so used it here. On the internet there are other echo7tangos out there - there are many E-7s with last name T. ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/74 "2012-12-31T16:58:39Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Stupid play on words; I’m 6’8". > > I didn’t realize that the time that people would think it was a reference to eating vomit. Ecch. I’d do it over given the chance. I guess I’m unimaginative… whenever I see your username my brain automatically thinks “two four six eight - who do we appreciate!”. Oh… and my weird username came from one too many nights reading Captain Underpants to one of my nieces. One of the books (Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants) has a name thingy in there and we named ourselves. Mine stuck. It’s been I think 10 or 11 years now - and that particular niece is full grown and STILL uses it. It stuck good. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Heropsychodreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Heropsychodreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heropsychodreamer)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/75 "2012-12-31T17:14:57Z")
I always loved how these three words sounded together. The song doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, other than the narator becomes a psycho-hero type but only in his dreams. During the day he just ignores any confrontation by turning the other cheek. I have no idea about licking hearts and being called queer. I just love the song though. 🙂 > **[Live - Heropsychodreamer Lyrics | AZLyrics.com](https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/live/heropsychodreamer.html)** > > Live "Heropsychodreamer": i'll kill you in my dreams i turn the other cheek during the day i'll kill you all the subcultu... ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/76 "2012-12-31T18:01:18Z")
Clothahump is the name of the Aged Turtle Wizard in Alan Dean Foster’s Spellsinger novel series. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/77 "2012-12-31T18:02:19Z")
A lot of people think its a word pronounced something like _“smick”_, but it’s really just a widely used short-hand used in 4-color (process/offset) printing, the subtractive color model, and your typical inkjet printers to denote the four colored inks used to make prints: cyan, magenta, yellow, black. It’s really just pronounced as the stand-alone letters. I used to work at a pre-press house, and as a graphic designer for a large corporation with their own presses, so I chose **cmyk** , since it has my first and last initials of my name (k, c), and “my” right in the center. Plus I just thought it sounded cool. It also helps with anonymity, since Googling for “cmyk” will get you millions of printing and color model hits, rather than anything I post here. That was almost 12 years ago, and am doing motion and VFX work now, so I’ve been contemplating changing it to **“rgb”**. 😉 ---
**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:** [December 31, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/78 "2012-12-31T18:16:19Z")
I did my thesis research on hummingbirds in Panama. _Colibri_ is Spanish for hummingbird. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/79 "2012-12-31T18:42:52Z")
Because I am lazy and \_\_\_\_\_\_\_. Everybody who knows me knows it. The day I signed up for the dope, my own laziness was brought home to me by son pulling one of the same tricks I used as a young man to avoid work. The source of his shiftlessness was obvious and it sure wasn’t his Mom. Least anyone thinks I dislike laziness, one of my favorite sayings is: “laziness is the mother of invention.” ---
**Author:** ![limegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@limegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/limegreen)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/80 "2012-12-31T22:58:05Z")
I have follicular lymphoma (it has nothing to do with hair follicles, but other than that, I’m clueless) and lime green is the color of the cancer ribbon for lymphoma. Sure, you see pink ribbon everything, but lime green ribbon stuff? Ptooey! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498.md?page=5)