# where'd you get your handle? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 21, 2001, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073 "2001-05-21T12:00:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/21 "2001-05-22T01:26:46Z")
Just a joke on “Viva Las Vegas” and that city’s nickname, Lost Wages. I spend a lot of time and money there. 😉 ---
**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:** [May 22, 2001, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/22 "2001-05-22T01:52:00Z")
The title of a Sybly Whyte novel. Excerpt follows: 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… I love the idea of having a zymolosely polydactl tongue with a terrible xmex-like snout. ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/23 "2001-05-22T02:26:52Z")
[I am currently in the process of changing my handle. Suggestions are appreciated.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=71675) MarxBoy (but not for long) ---
**Author:** ![Sparteye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Sparteye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparteye)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/24 "2001-05-22T02:43:04Z")
My name is a simple combination word. I started posting on sports boards, so my board name is a combination of the nicknames for the sports teams of my alma maters: Michigan State **Spart** ans and Ohio State Buck **eye** s. ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Lord\_Davidson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc8723/32.png) [@Dark\_Lord\_Davidson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Lord_Davidson)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/25 "2001-05-22T02:49:31Z")
Well, I had a handle on another message board as “Lord Davidson”, and that’s what mine originally was…but someone made a comment about how I was like a Dark Lord, or something…so I had it changed to reflect that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/26 "2001-05-22T03:13:55Z")
I have a fetish for this professional wrestler named Jeff Hardy-blond hair,green eyes,hot bod,MEOW KITTY KITTY 🙂 One of my best friends,Brian,made upa song to the tune of Barbie Girl called Hardy Girl about what I would to do Jeff if we ever met. So after awhile, my friends started calling me Hardygirl. I changed the spelling from -girl to -grrl to make it more punk rock. And since my other main nickname,Diva, was taken when I signed up for webtv… I am hardygrrl…hear me roar in my punk rock girly girl way. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/27 "2001-05-22T05:52:29Z")
[Hunting of the Snark, by Lewis Carroll](http://tyrinth.org/visions/preface.htm) ---
**Author:** ![honkytonkwillie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@honkytonkwillie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/honkytonkwillie)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/28 "2001-05-22T06:15:57Z")
Mine is my interpretation of a Rolling Stones song. ---
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/29 "2001-05-22T06:50:02Z")
My name is Pam (Pamela actually, but no one’s called me that in years.) Sometime around freshman year, I began answering to Pammi. I have a habit of poo-ing peoples’ names (Seaneepoo, Greggipoo, and Jeffypoo are 3 of my best friends…), and somewhere along the line I too was poo-ed. Thus Pammipoo was born, and it’s stuck ever since. Fascinating story huh? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/30 "2001-05-22T07:10:55Z")
Mine’s a character in _The Mikado._ > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Superdude \* > \*\*Mine is because I’m a superhero. I was gonna be Superman, but he has better lawyers than I do. \*\* And here I thought you were named for the deceased hamster in Bart Simpson’s class…perhaps I need a life. 😛 (“They threw me own father in the bog!” :D) \*_Sparteye_ – MSU _and_ Ohio State? :eek: \*_makes cross sign with fingers and backs away_ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![meek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@meek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meek)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/31 "2001-05-22T07:29:45Z")
**gums** spelled backwards. ---
**Author:** ![happylittlevegemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@happylittlevegemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happylittlevegemite)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/32 "2001-05-22T10:04:21Z")
time for this lurker to come out of the woodwork, me thinks… Aussie dopers will be blessed with instant understanding, the rest of you, all will be revealed here: [http://www.vegemite.com.au/singalong.asp?area=4](http://www.vegemite.com.au/singalong.asp?area=4) ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/33 "2001-05-22T10:12:31Z")
Mine is a word that I have always considered funny. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/34 "2001-05-22T10:18:36Z")
Welcome to the SDMB, **happylittlevegemite** and **amati**! As for my SN, it’s simply my real first name and last initial. ---
**Author:** ![amati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@amati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amati)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/35 "2001-05-22T10:26:55Z")
hey, happylittlevegemite, i’m so proud…your first post was on MY thread. welcome! oh, and all the welcomes from everyone else make me feel so warm and happy inside. thank you! alright, i’m getting too gushy for 3 in the morning… ---
**Author:** ![flikker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8baadc/32.png) [@flikker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flikker)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/36 "2001-05-22T12:19:37Z")
My username comes from the the long line of nicknames i have - facility, flea, flick, flikky, shagwell, and fel…have i forgotten any?? anyway…flikker just popped into my mind when i joined…can anyone guess my real name…lol 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/37 "2001-05-22T14:49:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Katisha \* > And here I thought you were named for the deceased hamster in Bart Simpson’s class…perhaps I need a life. 😛 > > \*\* Actually, that was the original inspiration, but I got tired of explaining that one (I have an email address with superdude in the name), so I invented the superhero story, too. Little footnote to all you _Simpsons_ fans. When my ex-fiancee and I were together, she used to call me _Superdude_ and her pet name was _Jubjub_. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/38 "2001-05-22T14:53:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by flikker \* > \*\*My username comes from the the long line of nicknames i have - facility, flea, flick, flikky, shagwell, and fel…have i forgotten any?? anyway…flikker just popped into my mind when i joined…can anyone guess my real name…lol 😛 \*\* Ooh! Ooh! Can I try? I’m gonna say…_ **Keri Russell** _!!! Am I right, _Felicity_? ---
**Author:** ![nerv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/85e7bf/32.png) [@nerv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nerv)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/39 "2001-05-22T15:05:37Z")
Mine is simply a random selection of letters. Whe I first signed up with a service provider (about 8 years ago) I was prompted for a user name, and I thought “no one uses their real name,” so I hit a few keys and “nerv” was born. I kind of like it because nobody can guess where it comes from. ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/40 "2001-05-22T15:06:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spooje \* > \*\*Mine is a word that I have always considered funny. \*\* Yes, you’ve been “spooje”-ing all over the boards for over a year now. 😛 [sub]Jeez, _right_ in my eye…[/sub] Back in design school, one assignment was to create a business package (logo/letterhead/business card) for our own freelance design business. I named my business “Tygr Design” after my own name. -Ty(gr!) [sub]Flikker - you wouldn’t happen to share a name with a certain teen-angst soap-opera on the WB, would you?[/sub] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073.md?page=3)