# Where'd your username come from? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 14, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677 "2010-11-14T21:29:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**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:** [November 15, 2010, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/61 "2010-11-15T23:29:06Z")
This question comes around every few months. I have a useless habit of remembering useless bits of information. I used to read a dictionary to fight boredom. My friends used me as a walking spell check and encyclopedia. “Go ask Nott,” they’d say. I saw the wordplay on JFK’s inaugural address, and that was my username. It has been for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Snake\_Plissken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@Snake\_Plissken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snake_Plissken)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/62 "2010-11-16T16:10:52Z")
People keep telling me they thought I was dead. ---
**Author:** ![3waygeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e95f7d/32.png) [@3waygeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3waygeek)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/63 "2010-11-16T16:13:41Z")
My three undergraduate majors – physics, maths, and computer engineering. ---
**Author:** ![kapri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kapri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapri)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/64 "2010-11-16T16:16:58Z")
I didn’t choose my name very well; it’s actually a mashup of my real name. It’s one of the reasons I haven’t posted my picture in the gallery and why I rarely comment in sexually explicit threads. I prefer to remain anonymous and with this stupid username it’s too easy to figure out who I am if you know me. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/65 "2010-11-16T16:19:39Z")
A character in a short story I wrote back in the 80’s for a BBS using Commodore 64’s. He was a devilish Cajun with bad habits and bad intentions. None of that applies to me, but I liked the name. No relation to music groups that came along later. I might have had some thoughts about the Coneheads on SNL but I didn’t borrow directly from that. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/66 "2010-11-16T16:23:58Z")
I use to be **Mr. Happy Sunshine** Then I went to college and read some books in the ‘special’ section. ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/67 "2010-11-16T16:59:49Z")
Bible reference, anti-war slogan, and Magic: the Gathering card. I don’t use this name for anything else online. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/68 "2010-11-16T17:07:49Z")
> [@kapri](#): > > I didn’t choose my name very well; it’s actually a mashup of my real name. It’s one of the reasons I haven’t posted my picture in the gallery and why I rarely comment in sexually explicit threads. I prefer to remain anonymous and with this stupid username it’s too easy to figure out who I am if you know me. You’re [Jordan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Price_(Jordan))? If you really are Jordan, I don’t actually want to know. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/69 "2010-11-16T17:14:16Z")
Nowhere. It was the first thing that popped into my head. I might’ve been **Anodyne Fruit Cup** or **Pony Floss** or **Boneless Viceroy** or… The truth is boring sometimes, which is why I prefer to avoid it. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/70 "2010-11-16T18:04:16Z")
I joined the boards because I was really curious, and we all know where that leads… ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/71 "2010-11-16T18:08:33Z")
International Master Josh Waitzkin (the real version of the character in _Searching for Bobby Fischer_) talked about a player’s ability to just ‘feel’ what the correct move is in a given position through experience and intuition. He called it a chessic sense. I’m a [Class B, nearly Class A](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_expert) player. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/72 "2010-11-16T18:14:17Z")
Czech for lawyer. The various “Spider-Man” permutations were all taken. ---
**Author:** ![czarcaztic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@czarcaztic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/czarcaztic)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/73 "2010-11-16T18:16:06Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Thought of it all on my own, without help from anyone else. And I played off this. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/74 "2010-11-16T18:33:57Z")
I just made mine up. ---
**Author:** ![Turble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Turble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turble)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/75 "2010-11-16T18:37:20Z")
My grandmother’s pronunciation of “terrible”. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/76 "2010-11-16T18:44:02Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > I just made mine up. [obligatory]Inconceivable![/obligatory] I found mine in a random Internet name generator. I liked it, so I started using it. My old name was a new vocabulary word at the time, something to aspire to. Also, a synasthete I knew on another board described it and it sounded beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/77 "2010-11-16T18:44:27Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > I just made mine up. I don’t think that word means what you think it means. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Skyscrapers\_Are\_Gravestones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Skyscrapers\_Are\_Gravestones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skyscrapers_Are_Gravestones)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/78 "2010-11-16T18:45:40Z")
From a song by the band [Acid Bath](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_Bath). A line in the chorus is “the skyscrapers look like gravestones from out here,” I just took it one step further one day coming back from the mountains and it’s stuck as a handle. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/79 "2010-11-16T19:10:47Z")
I’m a percussionist (mostly traditional African and pick-up drum circles). Also a Deadhead. Billy and Mickey’s band/extravaganzas were the Rhythm Devils. I don’t like vowels. Or spelling. Rhythmdvl ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/80 "2010-11-16T19:18:06Z")
Another poster had the name of one of my favorite foods “tatertot” I thought that was kind of nice, so I picked a different food I was keen on at the time. Of course, now I feel a responsibility to respond to any cheesesteak related questions, even though I don’t life in Philly and don’t really eat them very often. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677.md?page=5)