# What's the story behind your screen name?

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**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")\
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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:** [December 30, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-behind-your-screen-name/645498/36 "2012-12-30T03:44:40Z")

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> [@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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