Me, too. Being the Tolkien fan that I am, I then chose the name of a great and wise king of Middle-earth. If he were real, I’d be proud to be descended from him. He appeared all too briefly in the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring.
Well I’ve never met you so you’re mysteroius to me.
If it helps I’ll imagine your posts in a sexy voice. 
I’m a baker professionally, so since I lack imagination, there you are.
Mine is the alias that Jane Eyre used when she left Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre. For some reason the alias of a fictional character appeals to me.
and I’m a hairy gay man who lives in Denver…
It is a name found in a Byzantine treaty with a group of Huns, that being more or less where almost all hunnic names are found [treaties, and writings by people who had contact with the barbarian tribes, though they tend to be Roman/Byzantine attempts at either translation or transliteration of the hunnic names.] It is more or less translated from a title more than what the person was probably named. Qan/khan means 'person who is in charge/rules some unit or group of people - typically the military structure of the Mongolian horde used qan + a number to determine the officer in charge of a military unit such as arban, a file of 10 soldiers would be arbanqan. Aruv is sky or heaven, so Aruvqan was thought to refer to a shamaness or other ritual female, so I jokingly translate it as SkyPrincess though it really doesn’t mean that. I more or less picked it because there were so few ‘named’ females historically available for the time period I wanted my SCA persona to be from.
From a street vendor who was selling deep-fried bread. Probably not the healthiest snack but quite yummy.
drewtwo99 is something I’ve been using since I was a kid, and never gets taken so I get to use it everywhere, thankfully. drewtwo was a play off of mewtwo, the pokemon. The 99 has no special significance honestly. It might have been the year 1999 when I came up with the username but I highly doubt it and even if it were it was coincidental/subliminal.
I was a college DJ and didn’t want to call myself the self-identifying “Big Mama” (yes, I played the blues). My then-spouse and I were writing about blues, and one of the better stories was about the very obscure Rev. Houston Harrington and his Atomic-H record label. Coincidentally, one night we drove down Clybourn Ave. in Chicago and I spotted a storefront with the sign “Atomic Pest Control.”
Something clicked in my brain, and I dubbed myself “Atomic Mama.” Which is hilarious, because at least back then I was rather demure.
I’ve kept the name and the radio show going since then, and it’s soon going to be 2013. That means I’ve been “Atomic Mama” for 40+ years :eek: 
:smack:
I’m always dragging some sort of recreational stuff behind my pickup as I head out for the weekend. I’ve been doing this (literally) since I bought my first truck in 1975. I keep adding stuff and seem to end up with a kind of road train nowadays. The ever changing variety of campers, boats, combos, atv’s etc. prompt my relatives to ask: “What’re you pullin’ this time?” when they see me.
Here’s one example from about 10 years ago. It was about 70 feet long, with 12 wheels on the ground. I’ve had a total of about 5 different combo rigs like this over the years. I lurves my weekends.
Unimaginative, but that’s how I came up with the username. :rolleyes:
Can I be honest with you guys? I have no friggin’ idea. I seem to recall that I saw the phrase somewhere once and that it tickled my fancy at the time, but when I checked some years ago, the only Google results were for my posts and/or profile here on the Dope. It seems nowadays there are a couple other Stealth Potatoes floating around out there; some are people on other message boards or communities (some of whom have atrocious grammar to the collective shame of surreptitious spuds everywhere); some are frankly disturbing whispers on the ether with uncertain connotations.
Here, for example, is the Economic Policy Journal on Stealth Potato Chip Price Inflation.
Disturbingly, I turn up in a novel, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates by Tom Robbins, published in 2000:
I honestly don’t know what to make of it. I swear I had never seen that book before signing up here. :o
If only you were named broccoli pakora you’d be my favorite. 
I was in a Star Trek RPG some years back. My character’s last name was Murdock, and he attained the rank of captain.
NB: I do not know the SDMB known as Captain Lance Murdoch, or where he got his SN.
Middle name plus the number 3. In the AOL days believe or not Enright, Enright1, and Enright2 were taken.
In my software year of high school I became interested in Marine Biology after a trip to a local marine park. I vowed to someday work with dolphins, orcas and sea lions, and by my senior year of high school I had a summer job working with dolphins and learning everything I could about them.
I went off to college but continued to work summers at the marine park where I eventually became a marine mammal trainer working with dolphins, orcas and sea lions. Best 5 years of my life.
I picked up the nickname dolphinboy when I was still in high school, and it somehow stuck…
This wasn’t my first Doper name; that was McKenna, my mother’s maiden name, in '98 or '99. I remember when the Board crashed in December of '01 until the next February, known as the Winter of Our Missed Content, and I left for awhile, managing to completely forget my username and any clue how to remember it.
So, being a Don Marquis fan since high school and having picked up a 50s-vintage Archy and Mehitabel poetry book at an used bookstore in the summer of 2002, I resumed my Doper life with the name of his sassy world-weary philosopher-cat. An added bonus is that this is one of the few places on the Interwebs where I can be confident people might have some idea who she was.
toujours gai toujours gai i have known some swell dopers in my life dearie
Not Buck Murdock?!?
I am a huge Andrew Lloyd Webber fan from long back, long before he wrote the song Annie Christmas. My last name is Anne, and I was born on December 25th.
Weird coincidence, say what?
Back when I was a moderator named slythe I decided to have a “Rename The Moderator” contest after having 2 shots too many of Tullamore Dew.
And came this close to becoming Chicken of Bristol.
I read it as cod-gee