# What's Your Username Mean?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-username-mean/168324>\
**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")\
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**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")

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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.

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