# Where'd you get your Bord Name? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 3, 2001, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-bord-name/48161 "2001-01-03T00:38:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-bord-name/48161/21 "2001-01-03T03:13:34Z")
I’m named after my cat, Tabithina. I recently did a Google search on my username, and learned that there is also a very minor anime character on the Thundercats called Tabithina. She is a _Thunderkitten_! I had no idea.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-bord-name/48161/22 "2001-01-03T03:31:22Z")
To make a long story short I blame my ex boyfriend and a trip to Knott’s Berry Farm. I was prancing about saying a was a princess, because of my nrewly acquired flower “crown,” I was a fairy princess. My ex called me his “pretty kitty” so I became Fairy Princess Kitty. _idly wonders if she should change it because of her ex_ What do you all think? Kitty ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-bord-name/48161/23 "2001-01-03T03:32:07Z")
**Greg Charles** already gave you the answer about my name. I love that movie and it’s shorter than _Once Upon a Time in America_ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-bord-name/48161/24 "2001-01-03T03:32:31Z")
From the great author Sybly Whyte, in his seminal work, “Qadgop the Mercotan”. Here I quote: Qadgop the Mercotan slithered flatly around the after-bulge of the tranship. One claw dug into the meters-thick armor of pure neutronium, then another. Its terrible xmex-like snout locked on. Its zymolosely polydactyl tongue crunched out, crashed down, rasped across. Slurp! Slurp! At each abrasive stroke the groove in the tranship’s plating deepened and Qadgop leered more fiercely. Fools! Did they think that the airlessness of absolute space, the heatlessness of absolute zero, the yieldlessness of absolute neutronium could stop QADGOP THE MERCOTAN? And the stowaway, that human wench Cynthia, cowering in helpless terror just beyond this thin and fragile wall… They just don’t write this kind of stuff anymore!!! ---
**Author:** ![Alatariel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Alatariel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alatariel)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-bord-name/48161/25 "2001-01-03T03:42:49Z")
I love Doc Smith’s stuff…when I read the Qadgop bits by Kim Kinnison, (Lensman undercover) I just laughed and laughed… Galactic Patrol was the second sf book I ever read. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-bord-name/48161/26 "2001-01-03T03:53:40Z")
I’ll explain mine again. It’s a pun on **Snoop Doggy Dog**. It will one day be my rap name (if I ever learn to rap). ---
**Author:** ![Neochimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/96bed5/32.png) [@Neochimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neochimp)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-bord-name/48161/27 "2001-01-03T03:56:37Z")
I borrowed this name from David Brin’s Earth Clan books, where in the distant future, humans have raised chimpanzees and dolphins to sentience. ---
**Author:** ![Frannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Frannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frannie)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-bord-name/48161/28 "2001-01-03T04:11:32Z")
Um, it’s my name. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-bord-name/48161/29 "2001-01-03T04:15:43Z")
Me: from the _Dark Tower_ series, of course. **racinchikki** : she’s a chick and a racing fan. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-bord-name/48161/30 "2001-01-03T04:23:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by woodstockbirdybird \* > \*\*I’ll explain mine again. > It’s a pun on **Snoop Doggy Dog**. It will one day be my rap name (if I ever learn to rap). \*\* LOL!! Ohmygod! I nearly choked when I read that! Thanks so much. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-bord-name/48161/31 "2001-01-03T04:26:29Z")
I’m fun like frisbee’s and tops. Come play with me. …and its fun to say… say it. WHAMMMOOOOO!!! ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-bord-name/48161/32 "2001-01-03T04:34:11Z")
Kelli is my name, and asa kid they called me Kelli-belly. Or smelly-kelly (but thats another thread…) ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-bord-name/48161/33 "2001-01-03T04:45:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arden\_Ranger \* > \*\* > > LOL!! > > Ohmygod! I nearly choked when I read that! Thanks so much. 🙂 \*\* No problem. Always happy to instigate near-fatalities. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-bord-name/48161/34 "2001-01-03T04:48:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arden\_Ranger \* > \*\*If you’re familiar with Roger Zelazny’s Amber Chronicles, you know where mine came from. > > **Arden:** The huge forest that makes up Amber’s landborders. > > **Ranger:** The soldiers that patrol Forest Arden. > > Julian, the character who has dominion over Arden is one of my favorite characters. Hence, the name. 🙂 > \*\* What’s so special about Julian? Take away Morgenstern and the white armor and he’s nobody. Now Benedict, on the other hand… As for myself, I’m named after one of the heros of Guy Gavriel Kay’s _Tigana_. It’s the book that was on my desk the first time I signed onto a messageboard, years ago (makes sense - it’s my favorite book) and I’ve grown used to it. ---
**Author:** ![Upham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Upham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Upham)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-bord-name/48161/35 "2001-01-03T04:50:54Z")
I feel so very, very uncreative now… ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-bord-name/48161/36 "2001-01-03T04:56:04Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Alessan \* \*\* > [@](#): > > What’s so special about Julian? Take away Morgenstern and the white armor and he’s nobody. Now Benedict, on the other hand… > > \*\* Feh… Perhaps I’m a little partial because of the games I’ve been in. But, yes, Benedict… 🙂 Don’t get me started. ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-bord-name/48161/37 "2001-01-03T05:00:42Z")
Upham- tell me about it. Mine is from my girlfriend’s nickname for me. Then again, quietgirldownthehall’s is from a poem. Mundane usernames unite! ---
**Author:** ![Upham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Upham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Upham)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-bord-name/48161/38 "2001-01-03T05:05:46Z")
I’m with you **andygirl** Let’s hear it for all the names out there no one can ever remember! before we forget who we’re cheering! ---
**Author:** ![Meephead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b782af/32.png) [@Meephead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meephead)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-bord-name/48161/39 "2001-01-03T05:47:08Z")
You see it all started when I was a child… I overdosed on Looney Tunes and the resultant product is an adult that thinks he is a cartoon. Meep, is the sound the Roadrunner makes, and Head is my last name. Yes, Jr. High was hell and I was CONSTANTLY teased for my name, but my great sense of humor always wins, and in the rare case that it doesn’t, the Roadrunner is never caught. Meep, meep! :-Þ :-þ :-Þ :-þ :-Þ :-þ :-Þ :-þ (runs away) ---
**Author:** ![Upham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Upham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Upham)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-bord-name/48161/40 "2001-01-03T05:52:30Z")
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