# What's your J. Lo name?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-j-lo-name/140707
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 5, 2002, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-j-lo-name/140707 "2002-12-05T15:57:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author: ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2002, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-j-lo-name/140707/1 "2002-12-05T15:57:35Z")

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A friend asked me if Ben Affleck is going to change his name to “B. Af” when he and Miss Lopez get married. I realized with some delight that my J. Lo name would be “E. Go!”

What’s yours?

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### Author: ![airdisc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19adc/32.png) [@airdisc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/airdisc)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2002, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-j-lo-name/140707/2 "2002-12-05T16:01:37Z")

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“N St.”

Sounds like a street name.

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### Author: ![Spooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Spooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spooky)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2002, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-j-lo-name/140707/3 "2002-12-05T16:04:18Z")

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I’d be “C. Mc.”

I kinda like it.

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### Author: ![skittles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@skittles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skittles)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2002, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-j-lo-name/140707/4 "2002-12-05T16:07:12Z")

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Mine would be “M Wo.”

I think I’ll stick to skittles!!! 😃

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### Author: ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2002, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-j-lo-name/140707/5 "2002-12-05T16:08:50Z")

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A Ro.

Hmm. That actually works… maybe a username change is in order 🙂

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### Author: ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2002, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-j-lo-name/140707/6 "2002-12-05T16:15:06Z")

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W. Ak

That kinda rocks, actually. I’m wak!

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### Author: ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2002, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-j-lo-name/140707/7 "2002-12-05T16:15:35Z")

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D. La

Hey…that’s not too shabby!

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### Author: ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2002, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-j-lo-name/140707/8 "2002-12-05T16:16:47Z")

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S-Sim.

Sounds like a video game character. Bleah.

(Hijack-when the Dallas Cowboys demoted their starting quarterback, Quincy Carter a.k.a. Q-Car, and put Chad Hutchinson in, one local sports radio station was debating nicknames for him. C-Hutch just sounded weird … Then a listener suggested monosyllabalising it to ‘Chutch’. It seems to be catching on, for God-knows-what reason. 🙂 )

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### Author: ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2002, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-j-lo-name/140707/9 "2002-12-05T16:18:08Z")

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N. Ja

Um, enya? N Jah? The Little N Ja that Could? I dunno. Think I’ll stick with what I gots.

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### Author: ![SaxFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SaxFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaxFace)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2002, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-j-lo-name/140707/10 "2002-12-05T16:18:29Z")

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M. Bur

I LOVE IT!! 🙂

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### Author: ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2002, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-j-lo-name/140707/11 "2002-12-05T16:20:51Z")

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M. Co

Sounds like a generic corporation in a bad Saturday afternoon movie.

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### Author: ![beegirl13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@beegirl13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beegirl13)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2002, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-j-lo-name/140707/12 "2002-12-05T16:21:17Z")

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K. My

It sounds like a sentence that needs finishing. Or maybe starting, too.

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### Author: ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2002, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-j-lo-name/140707/13 "2002-12-05T16:21:37Z")

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D. Bo.

Not bad…

🆒

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### Author: ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2002, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-j-lo-name/140707/14 "2002-12-05T16:21:54Z")

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M. Rez. Gotta love it. Maybe I should start an industrial band…

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### Author: ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2002, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-j-lo-name/140707/15 "2002-12-05T16:23:33Z")

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C. Seid

Seaside! That’s fabulous!

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### Author: ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2002, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-j-lo-name/140707/16 "2002-12-05T16:25:28Z")

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B. La

Blah?  
ergh.

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### Author: ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2002, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-j-lo-name/140707/17 "2002-12-05T16:27:04Z")

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B. Ash

I’m liking it.

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### Author: ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2002, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-j-lo-name/140707/18 "2002-12-05T16:27:28Z")

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Damn! This is no good. My name would come out “S. Wil” – that’s “SWILL”!  
If I use my DoperName I sound like something out of a Cordwainer Smith story.

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### Author: ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2002, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-j-lo-name/140707/19 "2002-12-05T16:31:57Z")

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N. Chi, unless you’re using my nickname, then it’d be T. Chi.

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### Author: ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2002, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-j-lo-name/140707/20 "2002-12-05T16:32:29Z")

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M Car… which is only slightly more swift than a K Car.

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