# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/61 "2001-05-23T18:03:24Z")
Mine is a play on my name. My first name is Kerri and my M.I. is S My best friend constantly went around work one day putting an S in front of my name on everything. So, Skerri it is…that, and I’ve been told I can be intimidating. My name on other stuff is Steenkie, which comes from a Star Wars video game. The aforementioned best friend started calling me this when I would only execute this one move due to its cool sound effect (steeeeeeeeenkie) and the fact that it was the only move I knew. I once had a co-worker that wanted to know my nickname, because I worked with 2 people named Karen, and it just got too confusing. After I told her it was Steenkie, she called me that for 2 years. The one time she did call me Kerri I never answered her. Oh, and they got me a birthday cake two years running that had “Happy Birthday Steenkie” on it. Hardy—Love Matt and Jeff…hotties? I think so. Twist— I love that move, almost as much as 'Taker’s “Last Ride” ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/62 "2001-05-23T18:19:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > \*\*Its a wrestling move. \*\* I was hoping it was from the Dylan song. 🙂 I got my handle(s) from eating too many hot dogs. ---
**Author:** ![urban\_gorilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@urban\_gorilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban_gorilla)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/63 "2001-05-23T18:26:25Z")
was sitting at my pc having an existential crisis (i wasnt sure if i existed or not) and charles darwin popped into my head telling me i was nothing but an evolved ape. an “urban gorilla” if you will. please note: staying awake for more than 2-3 days at a time may be detrimental to your health, personal hygene, work, and pretty much any other damn thing in your life. you have been warned! ---
**Author:** ![CyberHippy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@CyberHippy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CyberHippy)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/64 "2001-05-23T23:31:52Z")
1990 or so, everything in the world was “Cyber” something, I entered the BBS world flingin’ my long hair… ---
**Author:** ![sulawesi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@sulawesi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sulawesi)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/65 "2001-05-24T02:52:14Z")
I was tired of my old name and I was sitting at the computer trying to think of a new one. Meanwhile, I was listening to music and I thought I heard something that sounded like “vengeance and dust” and I liked it… well, it was past midnight, and I was in a sappy mood. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/66 "2001-05-24T03:11:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dlgirl \* > \*\ ***Tripler** , sure you’re “rock hard” and I’m Britney Spears(ugh!). Wouldn’t you rather be “squishy”? It would be easier to hug you if you were. Like a teddy bear.😃 \*\* Yeah but there’s “squishy” and _too_ “squishy”. Besides, I have to be _rock hard_. But you can hug me anyway! 😃 Tripler I’m so rock hard I make diamonds look like chalk. ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/67 "2001-05-24T03:19:30Z")
{{{ **Tripler** }}} Is that a good teddy bear hug? Can I see you beside those diamonds? Heck, can I **have** those diamonds?😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/68 "2001-05-24T03:36:09Z")
usually I pick the name T-Square. I wouldn’t let me log on. so I named myself after a character in monkeyparty, a story I am creating for my webpage. ---
**Author:** ![honkytonkwillie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@honkytonkwillie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/honkytonkwillie)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/69 "2001-05-24T04:10:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ultrafilter \* > \*\*Mine’s taken from something that comes out of the foundations of a certain branch of math. An ultrafilter is a set constructed from another set that satisfies certain properties. > > But I just chose it cause it sounds cool. \*\* Just a little bit cooler than a Mojofilter. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/70 "2001-05-24T09:27:08Z")
…of course, with a little “mechanickin’” on the name. Victor Hugo is also my favorite author. ((((((((((((((((((((BONNNNNNNNNGGGGGGG)))))))))))))))))))))) 😃 Quasi ---
**Author:** ![loislane138](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f19dbf/32.png) [@loislane138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/loislane138)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/71 "2001-05-24T11:52:20Z")
I really like comic books and want to be a journalist so loislane seemed to fit. 138 is favorite misfit’s song. Also, I think the Misfit’s got 138 from George Lucas’s first movie THX-1138. LP (Oh, I and sign all posts, emails, etc. with “LP” because that’s my initials…plus its kinda fun to type the L and P are diagonal to one another on QWERTY keyboards, if the two letters were in any other position on the keyboard I probably wouldn’t even sign posts like this. LP LP LP…WHOO HOO, fun fun!) ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2001, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/72 "2001-05-25T13:26:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dlgirl \* > \*\*{{{ **Tripler** }}} > > Is that a good teddy bear hug? > > Can I see you beside those diamonds? Heck, can I **have** those diamonds?😃 \*\* Diamonds, diamonds, diamonds. That’s all the dames ever want outta me. You’d think a moll would love a gold ring every now and then . . . Tripler But that hug’ll work. Myaaaah! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2001, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/73 "2001-05-25T20:05:55Z")
**Tripler** , don’t worry. I can take the gold ring instead. I’m easy. Well…you know what I mean. Of course, what does this mean. I can’t take the ring if it doesn’t mean anything. Oh, what the hell; sure I can.😃 Anyway, I would most likely lose the diamonds. I am not the greatest at remembering where to put things or keeping them out of drains. :rolleyes: Oh, yeah. And if you need any more hugs, you know where to find 'em. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2001, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/74 "2001-05-25T21:09:00Z")
I could explain the handle, but then you would go insane. Can’t have that. But insanity is nothing compared to the loss of respect that would occour among your peers for not getting such an easy reference. Mwahahaha _cough_ _cough_ ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2001, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/75 "2001-05-25T21:11:27Z")
Not from the spice girls. In 1990, I worked as an office manager for a not-so-nice business, and didn’t want to use my real name. One of the girls in the company suggested “Ginger” as I have red hair. It’s been through a few incarnations - Gingersnap, Ginger(PIU), Gingercookie, Gin, and now GingerOfTheNorth. I’m not a danged spice girl! And it wasn’t a bill collection agency. Ginger ---
**Author:** ![Studnothin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@Studnothin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Studnothin)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2001, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/76 "2001-05-25T22:01:04Z")
A friend of my said that I was cute but since I am little pudgy I can’t be a Studmuffin. So she started calling me Studnothin. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2001, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/77 "2001-05-25T22:05:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GingerOfTheNorth \* > **I’m not a danged spice girl! And it wasn’t a bill collection agency.** I wasn’t thinking of the Spice Girls; I was thinking of Gilligan’s Island! ---
**Author:** ![Ad\_Noctum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b19c9b/32.png) [@Ad\_Noctum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ad_Noctum)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2001, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/78 "2001-05-25T22:42:44Z")
I got mine from an X-files… Scully and Mulder were in a subterranean cave with the “moth Men” and mulder gets up and looks at a post and on it was carved “Ad Noctum”. ---
**Author:** ![Ad\_Noctum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b19c9b/32.png) [@Ad\_Noctum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ad_Noctum)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2001, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/79 "2001-05-25T22:47:59Z")
I got mine from an X-files… Scully and Mulder were in a subterranean cave with the “moth Men” and mulder gets up and looks at a post and on it was carved “Ad Noctum”. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2001, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073/80 "2001-05-26T00:37:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dantheman \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by GingerOfTheNorth \* > > **I’m not a danged spice girl! And it wasn’t a bill collection agency.** > > I wasn’t thinking of the Spice Girls; I was thinking of Gilligan’s Island! > > \*\* I get that a lot, too. It’s annoying. I’m a sex goddess, true; but I’m not a vapid movie star sex goddess. That would just be counter to everything Canadian in me. Ginger [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-you-get-your-handle/66073.md?page=5)