# Where do people get their SDMB names from? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 14, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-people-get-their-sdmb-names-from/452940 "2008-06-14T18:48:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-people-get-their-sdmb-names-from/452940/81 "2008-06-16T20:41:13Z")
I’m not even as imaginative as you (OP), and constructed mine from aspects of my name, the initials. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-people-get-their-sdmb-names-from/452940/82 "2008-06-16T20:43:30Z")
Huge Radiohead fan so I was trying to incorporate that somehow. Plus I liked the generic internet identity that **Kid\_A** represents. ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-people-get-their-sdmb-names-from/452940/83 "2008-06-16T21:09:51Z")
Well, mine is not nearly as exciting - but about 5 years ago I was addicted to The Sims and finally bought the online game. I had never been an online gamer, had no idea what was cool - and had to choose my first character name. Aack! The pressure! So I chose Melody Harmonius because I was in to music and thought it sounded plausible. Little did I realize that no one on TSO would ever ask me why I picked my name. I realized too late I had mistyped Harmonious, and as an english major, it has stuck in my craw, but I digress. I made the requisite hotmail accounts to go with the moniker, and soon just adopted it for everywhere else. After five years, I’m actually just as comfortable being called “Mel” as my real name and don’t even blink. Of course, I sometimes have to remember to tell people that’s not my real name before we meet in person . . . ---
**Author:** ![TequilaSunrise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@TequilaSunrise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TequilaSunrise)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-people-get-their-sdmb-names-from/452940/84 "2008-06-16T21:41:39Z")
I love tequila, and tequila sunrise just sounds like an awesomely optimistic name. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-people-get-their-sdmb-names-from/452940/85 "2008-06-16T21:54:04Z")
[I am what I am.](http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/greek-mythology.php?deity=SILENUS) ---
**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:** [June 16, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-people-get-their-sdmb-names-from/452940/86 "2008-06-16T22:09:44Z")
Mange Tout means ‘eat all’ in French. I’m not French, but I like to eat lots of different things. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-people-get-their-sdmb-names-from/452940/87 "2008-06-16T22:13:10Z")
I like Bruce Campbell, and I liked his character Autolycus on the show Xena. I played a thief on the online game Final Fantasy XI with the same user name. Aspects of his personality bleed onto my online persona. ---
**Author:** ![schnuckiputzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@schnuckiputzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnuckiputzi)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-people-get-their-sdmb-names-from/452940/88 "2008-06-16T23:28:28Z")
I was trying to create a name for my jewelry business, and because of my German ancestry, I came up with this word, which could be translated as “cutie-pie”, or something cute and adorable. Not me. My jewelry. But the utter unwieldyness of the word, as with many German words, stuck with me. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-people-get-their-sdmb-names-from/452940/89 "2008-06-17T00:00:18Z")
I’m King o’ the Cats. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-people-get-their-sdmb-names-from/452940/90 "2008-06-17T00:33:10Z")
From a French graphic novel. I’ve always fancied myself the fool in the romantic sense, on the edge of oblivion chasing whatever strikes my fancy at that current moment, the soul in search of experience and wisdom (and often tripping over the latter). ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-people-get-their-sdmb-names-from/452940/91 "2008-06-17T00:42:13Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] Mine comes from the title character in _The Man Who Never Missed._ I was feeling lazy the day I signed up and so I grabbed a book at random from my bookshelf and took my name from there. [/QUOTE] Hey, boss. How’re the crew doing? Place looks busy tonight. Is, uh, Sister Clamp around? Yeah, I took my name from the same series of books. While Khadaji was the main character and an all around admirable guy, he was a little too intense for me to relate to well enough to use for a handle. The Sleel character, on the other hand, had more than a little in common with me. I’m a little too arrogant sometimes, but almost as good as I think I am. I’m more than a bit of a horndog. I have a sensitive side that I don’t let out very often. My family and I didn’t always relate to each other very well. I’ve done martial arts for a long time, and (this is based on a [later book](http://www.amazon.com/Black-Steel-Steve-Perry/dp/0441066984)) the first time I picked up a sword it felt natural in my hands. If I were to pick a name now, I probably wouldn’t pick the same one because I’ve got quite a different outlook on life than I did then. I’ve got much less in common with Sleel than I used to. ---
**Author:** ![RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RancidYakButterTeaParty)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-people-get-their-sdmb-names-from/452940/92 "2008-06-17T00:55:17Z")
You really don’t want to know… ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-people-get-their-sdmb-names-from/452940/93 "2008-06-17T06:57:54Z")
[Post 13](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=289696&highlight=shoot+kill+child+situation) ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-people-get-their-sdmb-names-from/452940/94 "2008-06-17T17:28:47Z")
The men in my family who aren’t automatically nicknamed Sheriff usually end up being Nott. The rest is a pun on JF Kennedy’s inaugural speech. “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.” So ask me anything. ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-people-get-their-sdmb-names-from/452940/95 "2008-06-17T17:56:47Z")
[Atomic Dog](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuyS9M8T03A) What can I say? I’m a big George Clinton fan. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-people-get-their-sdmb-names-from/452940/96 "2008-06-17T19:27:40Z")
I’m a baaaaaaad boy. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-people-get-their-sdmb-names-from/452940/97 "2008-06-17T19:59:06Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Mange Tout means ‘eat all’ in French. I’m not French, but I like to eat lots of different things. [/QUOTE] What??? I always thought you named yourself after the pea. You are English aren’t you? How can you be so French? ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-people-get-their-sdmb-names-from/452940/98 "2008-06-17T20:08:36Z")
I used to do an excellent Louis Armstrong imitation. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-people-get-their-sdmb-names-from/452940/99 "2008-06-17T20:31:35Z")
At the time I was playing World of Warcraft and I was in a large guild and I hung out with the goofball crowd and we’d call each other asshats and other terms of endearment so I created a female character named Tahssa, because it sounded feminine, and that is the character I was actively playing when I signed up for the dope. ---
**Author:** ![Pixilated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aeb1de/32.png) [@Pixilated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixilated)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-people-get-their-sdmb-names-from/452940/100 "2008-06-18T03:06:25Z")
Got mine from the ‘word of the day’ alert. Fits me well. And for the LAST time - pixelated is NOT the same thing! =) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-people-get-their-sdmb-names-from/452940.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-people-get-their-sdmb-names-from/452940.md?page=6)