# What's your "Indian Name"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 17, 2009, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indian-name/500095 "2009-06-17T18:04:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indian-name/500095/61 "2009-06-18T13:12:47Z")
I seem to already have one (see user name), but an alternative would be Surly Moose. Both fit but neither has anything to do with a vision or popular acclaim. My favorite continues to be a Dakota warrior/sub-chief who was at the Little Big Horn fight. The short form is Afraid of His Horses. The full name is His Enemies Are Even Afraid of His Horses. A tough dude, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indian-name/500095/62 "2009-06-18T13:39:19Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Was his father also a ball of feathers? :dubious: He breezed in an out like much of the same. And the boy came out fighting. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indian-name/500095/63 "2009-06-18T14:57:55Z")
> [@Lord\_Mondegreen](#): > > It’s a very old joke, but a good one. Here’s one version: > > A little indian boy asks his father “Papa how did your father name you?” “Well son, my mother gave birth to me and my father came out of Tee Pee to see big black bear, so he named me Big Black Bear.” > > The boy continued.“So what of my two sisters’ names?” “Well son, your first sister was born & I went out of Tee Pee to see little white dove & I named her Little White Dove. Your second sister was born & I came out from Tee Pee to see a herd of deer grazing so I named her Grazing Deer.” > > “But why do you ask, Two Dogs Fucking?” The Pratchett version goes something like this: “Why do they call you One-Man-Bucket?” “It’s short for ‘One-Man-Throwing-A-Bucket-Of-Water-On-Two-Dogs’. In my tribe, you’re named for the first thing your father sees when he leaves the teepee to announce your birth. I don’t have it NEARLY as bad as my older twin brother, though.” “What was his name? Two Dogs Fighting?” “…He’d have given his right arm to be named Two Dogs FIGHTING.” ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indian-name/500095/64 "2009-06-18T14:59:43Z")
Runs With Scissors ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indian-name/500095/65 "2009-06-18T15:05:18Z")
I’m probably Can’t Find Glasses or Forgot Something. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indian-name/500095/66 "2009-06-18T15:16:12Z")
Big Ears Biking ---
**Author:** ![Shecky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@Shecky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shecky)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indian-name/500095/67 "2009-06-18T15:21:38Z")
Forearms Like Popeye _What?_ ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indian-name/500095/68 "2009-06-18T20:16:21Z")
Silently Stalks Deer For that time I got close enough to a deer to (almost) reach out and touch it. I am _good_ at sneaking round. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indian-name/500095/69 "2009-06-19T03:29:53Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Aren’t you friends with Pale Ale Rider? Ten Beers comes from The Outlaw Josey Wales, a Clint Eastwood movie. The chief’s name was Ten Bears. One of my favorites. And so is Pale (Ale) Rider. Good call. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indian-name/500095/70 "2009-06-19T03:37:23Z")
Speaking of pale ale, I should mention my brother; IPA Stream. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2009, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indian-name/500095/71 "2009-06-19T04:01:42Z")
> [@](#): > > My favorite continues to be a Dakota warrior/sub-chief who was at the Little Big Horn fight. The short form is Afraid of His Horses. The full name is His Enemies Are Even Afraid of His Horses. A tough dude, apparently. When Harry Flashman was living with the Apaches, they admired his ability at horse riding and renamed him He Rides His Horse So Fast The Wind Breaks Before Him. Of course that was a little long, so they usually called him Breaking Wind. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indian-name/500095/72 "2009-06-19T04:05:48Z")
In the book “Flashman and the Redskins” our Flashy is a reluctant guest of the Apaches who admire his horsemanship and feel he deserves a new name. It is “Rides His Horse So Fast He Shatters The Wind”. When he comments that the name is impressive, but really too long, he is told that in common usage it would just be “Wind Breaker.” ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indian-name/500095/73 "2009-06-19T04:07:25Z")
Or something like that. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2009, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indian-name/500095/74 "2009-06-19T05:23:11Z")
Okay, now I actually looked it up. Flashman’s Apache name was “White Rider Goes So Fast He Destroys the Wind with His Speed”. And he was commonly known as “He Who Breaks the Wind” or “Wind Breaker”. ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indian-name/500095/75 "2009-06-19T19:33:22Z")
Man Who Smokes In Shower. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indian-name/500095/76 "2009-06-19T20:15:46Z")
Giver of Directions (For some reason I can’t seem to go anywhere without someone asking me how to get to some location or another.) ---
**Author:** ![pantheon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@pantheon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantheon)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indian-name/500095/77 "2009-06-19T20:34:41Z")
> [@DLuxN8R-13](#): > > Man Who Smokes In Shower. To the strains of [O Fortuna](http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1910631), by chance? ---
**Author:** ![VanLandry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/eb9ed0/32.png) [@VanLandry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VanLandry)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indian-name/500095/78 "2009-06-20T00:46:14Z")
When I used to live in the city and walked everywhere I would get frustrated with the tourists who _always_ walked super slow and 5 aside and as I bobbed and weaved my way past them I would always think my indian name should be, “Walks with Purpose”. ---
**Author:** ![Baggins111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@Baggins111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baggins111)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indian-name/500095/79 "2009-06-20T02:33:41Z")
My friends and I made names for ourselves many years ago. Whenever a good one comes up, we add it to the list. My name is _Dances With Spiders_ from my fear of the nasty beasts and a post I put on here many moons ago about one in my shower. My best friend is 6’5." His name is _Head Touches Sky_. His wife is _Sleeps in Cars_. We have a friend that is named _Stands to Wipe_ and another named _Mumbles to Songs_. My wife has no name yet… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-indian-name/500095.md?page=3)