# What's Your Username Mean? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 12, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-username-mean/168324 "2003-04-12T21:25:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![LtningBug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@LtningBug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LtningBug)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-username-mean/168324/61 "2003-04-13T22:06:18Z")
I am named for the electricity safety mascot, Louie the Lightning Bug. I’ve used the same name since I was 14 and first had to choose a screen name on AOL. ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-username-mean/168324/62 "2003-04-13T22:11:16Z")
Ava’s just a favorite name of mine - SO and I hope to use it for a daughter in a couple of years - and it’s slightly similar to the first three letters of my first name. And the ‘beth’ is for my middle name - I just liked the combination of the two. Ava ---
**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-username-mean/168324/63 "2003-04-13T22:28:00Z")
Comes from a 2 day marathon session with Metal Gear Solid. Well, ya got Solid Snake, Sniper Wolf, Revolver Ocelot - so why not Rabid Squirrel? It seemed to make sense at 3am. ---
**Author:** ![mr.splitfoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@mr.splitfoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.splitfoot)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-username-mean/168324/64 "2003-04-13T22:56:03Z")
Well, on one hand, it’s just another name for devil. (splitfoot=cloven hoof) I kinda went for it though, b/c it has the Mr. part, and when people read my IRL name, they always assume I’m female. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-username-mean/168324/65 "2003-04-13T23:29:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Davebear \* > \*\*I _like_ your username. It creates a great mindpicture, even though I’ve never seen the gf’s lagomorphs laugh. An occasional bunny dance, but no laughing. 🙂 \*\* Well, a mindpicture is exactly what I was going for, so that is good to hear. Our rabbits have been known to dance too, especially this time of year. They always seem to know when it is spring, even though they are always kept inside. I liked your username explanation, but I have to say every time I read your location I think of those old Saturday Night Live skits with the guys saying “Da Bears!”. You aren’t in Chicago, though, you are in Mass., right? ---
**Author:** ![ChalkPit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@ChalkPit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChalkPit)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-username-mean/168324/66 "2003-04-14T01:31:04Z")
“Beware Chalk Pit” was a racehorse who is buried on top of a hill near where we live. There is a pyramidal folly built on top of the mound. The views of the area are amazing. Me and the wife go up there a lot. ---
**Author:** ![DEVA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@DEVA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DEVA)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-username-mean/168324/67 "2003-04-14T02:00:50Z")
Funny this thread was started because as a newbie, I had a desire to start a similar thread. My name is an acronym: D.aring E.mpowered V.ictorious A.ction ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-username-mean/168324/68 "2003-04-14T02:03:09Z")
There is a reason for mine, of course. But wouldn’t it be more interesting if someone actually knew it? Just as an FYI, I started life on this board as **Max**. However, there were/are so many Max derivations on the board, that I tried to come up with something a bit more unique. So, dear friends, I bring you… **Stink Fish Pot** ---
**Author:** ![Omorka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Omorka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omorka)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-username-mean/168324/69 "2003-04-14T02:06:54Z")
Omorka is the Chaldean name for Tiamat, the Babylonian cthonic goddess of the Chaos and Void at the beginning of things. She let me borrow a variation on it because she wan’t using it anymore; I use the usual spelling as a username so I don’t have to explain things even further. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lilbtagna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@lilbtagna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lilbtagna)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-username-mean/168324/70 "2003-04-14T04:31:39Z")
A few years ago, Lou Bega had a song called “Mambo #5,” which I thought was the most annoying thing on the radio. But there’s a line in the song that says “A little bit of Tina’s what I see…” during the chorus. My friends started singing “Gina” instead of “Tina” to me, and then it stuck as a username. It used to be that entire line in the song, but I’ve gotten lazier in my old age (20) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![IEatFood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c5a1d2/32.png) [@IEatFood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IEatFood)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-username-mean/168324/71 "2003-04-14T04:42:17Z")
Mine was my daughter’s idea. She used to like this animated show on nickelodeon about some space aliens trying, very badly, to go unnoticed on Earth. Among many items in their house desgined to assuage the concerns of an observer that they might not be “native”, is a poster that says simply “ **I Eat Food!** ” I don’t recall there being anything else on the poster. Anyway, she asked what it was, & I explained. She had a hard time wrapping her 18 month old head around the idea that they didn’t actually eat food, but wanted people to _think_ they did anyway. The name seems more & more appropriate day by day as I realise just how many things are in my life just for the sake of a normal “appearance,” so in that way, I thought it was a good idea. The real question is how many of you readers out there recognise the sig? > [@](#): > > I always thought that Mephistopheles was a cool figure. I always thought he was a greek detective. No shit. The reason? I remember hearing “Mephistopheles is not my name, I know what you’re up to just the same…” in a _The Police_ song when I was a small child myself. So, being impressionable, I naturally thouht that Meph guy was good at knowing what wayward, manipulative women were up to. Hence, a damned good detective, lol. Funny how things from childhood are so hard to correct later on! ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-username-mean/168324/72 "2003-04-14T05:37:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by don’t ask \* > \*\*don’t know \*\* Shouldn’t that be “don’t tell”? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-username-mean/168324/73 "2003-04-14T05:51:18Z")
Jophiel is, in Hebraic lore, the name of the cherubim sent down by God to kick Adam and Eve out of the Garden. The name itself translates to “Beauty of God”. I chose the name because I have an interest in angeology, but back in my IRC days it was impossible to take the nick of any “popular” angels and not find them already taken. So I chose Jophiel who was still an archangel and a major player in the scene (so to speak… heh) but obscure enough that I had a chance in hell of using it on message boards and IRC servers without immediate rejection. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-username-mean/168324/74 "2003-04-14T05:57:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tars Tarkas \* > \*\*Shouldn’t that be “don’t tell”? \*\* But that would be telling. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-username-mean/168324/75 "2003-04-14T06:13:53Z")
It’s simply my initials, nothing more interesting than that. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-username-mean/168324/76 "2003-04-14T07:41:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ChalkPit \* > \*\*“Beware Chalk Pit” was a racehorse who is buried on top of a hill near where we live. There is a pyramidal folly built on top of the mound. The views of the area are amazing. Me and the wife go up there a lot. \*\* Farley Mount. You’re not far from me, I live in Botley (have I said this before?). ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-username-mean/168324/77 "2003-04-14T10:55:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Laughing Lagomorph \* > \*\*I liked your username explanation, but I have to say every time I read your location I think of those old Saturday Night Live skits with the guys saying “Da Bears!”. You aren’t in Chicago, though, you are in Mass., right? \*\* Thanks. I didn’t really intend to ramble on so long, but this name has a lot of history behind it. Including a period during which it was abbreviated, by most members of a board I belonged to at the time, to Da Bear. For exactly the reason you mentioned. Sort of a nickname of a nickname. Pretty appropriate, too, since I was born in Chicago, and a fan of Da Bears, although I’ve lived most of my life, here, in Boston. ---
**Author:** ![Washte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Washte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washte)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-username-mean/168324/78 "2003-04-14T11:02:41Z")
Washte means “it is good” in Sioux 😃 Don’t care how many times this type of thread comes up. It’s fun to see all the new names coming in and their explanations. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2003, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-username-mean/168324/79 "2003-04-14T20:06:38Z")
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. I won and people started to tack the letters -ziod onto the end of my name I guess to indiacte I was part machine. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-username-mean/168324/80 "2003-04-14T20:33:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Malacandra \* > \*\*Peas, picked when very young and eaten pod and all. So you “eat all” the pod, and not just the peas. > \*\* Maybe so, but pois mangetout usually just means snow peas, aka edible-podded peas, of whatever age. My name, in case you are not a science fiction fan, is the name of the psycho-historian in Asimov’s Foundation series and Trantor was his planet. And while I am posting, let me recommend Psychohistorical Crisis by Don Kingsbury a scarcely disguised sequel and a fine science-fiction yarn. I am not Kingsbury, although I do know him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-username-mean/168324.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-username-mean/168324.md?page=5)