# What's your alias? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207 **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **Created:** [March 26, 2016, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207 "2016-03-26T04:51:50Z") **Posts on this page:** 20 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder) #### Post date: [March 26, 2016, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/1 "2016-03-26T04:51:50Z")
Do you have a name you give for when you don’t want to give your real name? I have a few: Will DiCoca Mike Johnnyranger (usually when there’s a sign-in sheet) Onowa Ugundalé (online sign-ins) I’ll mix things up with different spellings or first names, like Mike becomes Mick or Michael, or Will becomes Walt, or Ugundalé becomes Ugundelay, or I’ll throw a middle initial in, etc.) ---
### Author: ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool) #### Post date: [March 26, 2016, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/2 "2016-03-26T04:53:46Z")
Mike Hunt ---
### Author: ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid) #### Post date: [March 26, 2016, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/3 "2016-03-26T04:58:56Z")
Richard N. Butts ---
### Author: ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth) #### Post date: [March 26, 2016, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/4 "2016-03-26T05:07:41Z")
Amalgamated Buttons and Fasteners Incorporated. ---
### Author: ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm) #### Post date: [March 26, 2016, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/5 "2016-03-26T07:40:07Z")
Phil N. DeBlanc ---
### Author: ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog) #### Post date: [March 26, 2016, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/6 "2016-03-26T08:04:55Z")
I like to use the names of fictional PIs. Like Philip Marlowe or Mike Hammer. ---
### Author: ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty) #### Post date: [March 26, 2016, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/7 "2016-03-26T09:16:58Z")
Jack Batty. Go figure. ---
### Author: ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker) #### Post date: [March 26, 2016, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/8 "2016-03-26T12:08:52Z")
I signed a friend’s wedding book **Hugh G. Rection**. He later told me he knew it was me right away. The new Mrs was pissed. The marriage lasted under five years, including time in counseling. ---
### Author: ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88) #### Post date: [March 26, 2016, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/9 "2016-03-26T12:13:29Z")
When I order fast food, I never have them call out my monosyllabic name when my order is ready, because all monosyllabic names sound the same when suddenly blurted out. So I use my middle name, Edward. Occasionally, I use Henry Jacobs, which is the name of an obtuse interviewer talking to a doped jazz musician in a Lenny Bruce routine. ---
### Author: ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp) #### Post date: [March 26, 2016, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/10 "2016-03-26T12:18:24Z")
My company is always “Chicken Salad Enterprises”. ---
### Author: ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius) #### Post date: [March 26, 2016, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/11 "2016-03-26T12:35:30Z")
Dr Stephen Fidelius, from Miskatonic University. Sometimes Andrew Blodgette Mayfair with the Hidalgo Importing Co ---
### Author: ![quiltguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy) #### Post date: [March 26, 2016, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/12 "2016-03-26T14:55:20Z")
Not one Art VanDelay in this group? Lucky me. 😃 ---
### Author: ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti) #### Post date: [March 26, 2016, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/13 "2016-03-26T15:12:37Z")
Rock Strongo. Or failing that, Lance Uppercut. ---
### Author: ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75) #### Post date: [March 26, 2016, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/14 "2016-03-26T16:52:00Z")
My wife and I both have names and an address to use when we go to real estate open houses and the like. We are Chuck and Sherry C.\* (last name held back. Chuck C. really exists, and he gets a lot of junk mail based on this… The story behind this is long and sordid. ---
### Author: ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher) #### Post date: [March 26, 2016, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/15 "2016-03-26T16:53:11Z")
Smithen Jones ---
### Author: ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows) #### Post date: [March 26, 2016, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/16 "2016-03-26T17:09:21Z")
Elle Bowes ---
### Author: ![Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti) #### Post date: [March 26, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/17 "2016-03-26T18:42:42Z")
Lance Boyle ---
### Author: ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi) #### Post date: [March 26, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/18 "2016-03-26T18:48:30Z")
> [@quiltguy](#): > > Not one Art VanDelay in this group? Lucky me. 😃 Buck Naked ---
### Author: ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy) #### Post date: [March 26, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/19 "2016-03-26T19:11:44Z")
Rod O’Steele ---
### Author: ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty) #### Post date: [March 26, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207/20 "2016-03-26T20:23:51Z")
My Starbucks name is Stella, or occasionally, if I’m feeling it, Zelda. I learned once how embarrassing it is to give a silly name while wearing a nametag with your mundane real name on it. The coffee seller gave it a good loooong look, nodded at me, then wrote “ZELDA” extra big on the cup… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-alias/750207.md?page=2)