# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/101 "2013-01-05T00:50:46Z")
> [@the lone cashew](#): > > Is this a scientific way of saying she has great cleavage? šŸ˜• Umā€¦no. It was just meant as a polite compliment based upon her posts. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/102 "2013-01-05T00:56:58Z")
I worked part time for a Ace Hardware in high school and college. The one I worked at had a lumber yard and I worked out there loading customerā€™s trucks. Did some inside work too in the store helping customers find items they needed. Some friends started calling me Ace. I took that and the store jingle to get my screen name. ā€œAce is the place with the helpful hardware manā€ ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/103 "2013-01-05T01:13:34Z")
Named after my dearly departed [friend](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=512282) ---
**Author:** ![Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pasta)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/104 "2013-01-05T17:23:18Z")
I was eating a plate of spaghetti when I registered. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/105 "2013-01-05T18:55:36Z")
Good thing. Tā€™would be sumepinā€™ to have a Doper named Ipecac. šŸ˜ƒ ---
**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:** [January 5, 2013, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/106 "2013-01-05T19:07:02Z")
I havenā€™t a clue. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/107 "2013-01-05T21:01:00Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Well Iā€™ve never met you so youā€™re mysteroius to me. > If it helps Iā€™ll imagine your posts in a sexy voice. šŸ™‚ Of course it helps! šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/108 "2013-01-05T21:50:09Z")
My internet ā€œhandleā€ had been Cat ^ā€¦^ for many years, but when I joined SD there were a _lot_ of ā€œCatā€ people, including one who used a similar symbol: Kat =^ā€¦^= So I decided it would be too confusing, and in the mental game-play of ā€œif not Cat, then \_\_\_\_?ā€ the blank got filled in in my mind with Dog. But I was _not_ going to become Dog as my screen name, so instead I made the next ā€œlogicalā€ leap and chose my sisterā€™s dogā€™s name (I didnā€™t have my own dog), which at the time was **Shayna**. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/109 "2013-01-05T22:19:59Z")
My best friend came up with **olivesmarch4th** when I was a freshman in college and we were trying to register me for an AOL account. ā€˜ā€˜Olivesā€™ā€™ originated in high school as our way of saying ā€˜ā€˜I love youā€™ā€™ and now most of my friends and family associate me with olives. Even though, ironically enough, olives are my least favorite food. Theoretical olives only, please! March 4th is my birthday. We enjoyed the imagery of marching olives. Itā€™s silly, much like myself. ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/110 "2013-01-05T22:22:07Z")
Iā€™m Andy, Iā€™m a girl, the simplicity of it was appealing at the time. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/111 "2013-01-06T14:01:46Z")
Shoot, why didnā€™t I choose a name with a backstory? I couldā€™ve regaled you kind people with tales of my grandfather driving an ambulance between the trenches in WW1, and the inscription in the sketchbook given to him by a dying soldierā€¦ Or made a fart joke. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2013, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/112 "2013-01-06T14:20:18Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Shoot, why didnā€™t I choose a name with a backstory? I couldā€™ve regaled you kind people with tales of my grandfather driving an ambulance between the trenches in WW1, and the inscription in the sketchbook given to him by a dying soldierā€¦ > > Or made a fart joke. At least your user name isnā€™t **[Oops! I Crapped My Pants!](http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2011/09/the-50-best-saturday-night-live-skits/oops-i-crapped-my-pants)**. šŸ˜ƒ ---
**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:** [January 6, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/113 "2013-01-06T14:37:14Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > initials+last 2 digits of YOB. I **graduated high school** in 1979, you young whippersnapper, you! ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/114 "2013-01-06T15:19:10Z")
Youā€™ve Gotta be Shitting Me was already takenā€¦ plus it didnā€™t give me the opportunity to use too many of those dots that have a fancy name when used properly. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/115 "2013-01-06T15:42:39Z")
I heard a joke: Q: What do you call a mushroom with a 9-inch stem A: A fungi to be with having a name that starts with ā€œphā€ I thought ā€œphungiā€ would be a funny way to spell itā€¦ also, I tend to grow on youā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/116 "2013-01-07T02:15:41Z")
Iā€™m an accountant who owns a _lot_ of books. Plus it has three consecutive double letters and appeals to my love of unusual words. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/117 "2013-01-07T02:40:39Z")
A friend had referred to something I said on a post at a message board I hadnā€™t been frequenting. A newbie asked who I was and he replied, ā€œSheā€™s an Internet Legend.ā€ I think of it as being something like an urban legend, in that I may or may not really exist. When I re-registered at that board to answer the question that had been brought up, I used this name. Then I used it here because I have really very little imagination and didnā€™t stop to think what it sounded like. Itā€™s a joke, son, a joke. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/118 "2013-01-07T05:17:44Z")
Because Ulf is a guyā€™s name. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/119 "2013-01-07T05:28:17Z")
Back in the day, I needed a three letter word that would be my initials for the old-school video gamesā€™ high scores lists. My actual initials are pretty lame. Then, I read some trivia about the movie 2001: A space Odessey. The computer was named ā€œHALā€ as an homage to IBM, but one letter up in the alphabet. I thought that was really cool, plus the ā€œhalā€ is actually a nickname for my real name, also my favorite superhero of all time was Hal ā€œGreen Lanternā€ Jordan. However, ā€œHalā€ is an incredibly common forums name, so I came up with the idea of adding ā€œSuperā€ before it instead of some lame number after it. If you see a ā€œSuperhalā€ or ā€œSuperduperhalā€ thatā€™s probably me. I used to use ā€œda\_halā€ as in ā€œThe Halā€ but few boards would allow special characters in forum names. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/120 "2013-01-07T05:43:04Z")
I conquered Formosa in the name of the rightful Ming prince, and kicked those red hairy Dutch barbarians out of Fort Zeelandia. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498.md?page=7)