# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/101 "2010-11-17T16:01:10Z")
i’m a scuba diver. queen → obvious 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/102 "2010-11-17T17:50:08Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > By any chance have you had a lifelong dream of selling yarn? I googled Nars yarn and Glinley yarn. I’m still 😕 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/103 "2010-11-17T17:57:48Z")
Mine is named for the last word in my favorite play, \*Cyrano de Bergerac. \* It’s a pun, meaning both a white plume and . . . panache. Some people consider this not a very good translation, and they prefer it ending with “white plume.” They may be right, concerning the translation as a whole, but I think the pun “panache” is in keeping with the context. And I was born in 1945. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/104 "2010-11-17T18:17:43Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > I googled Nars yarn and Glinley yarn. I’m still 😕 Try [this](http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=narsglinley&t=1000&a=n)! ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/105 "2010-11-17T18:22:03Z")
> [@Small\_Clanger](#): > > Named after a childhood hero. No idea what it brings to mind for non-brits. Srsly? No idea? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/106 "2010-11-17T18:58:04Z")
Boyard is a horse used by a Templar to ride into battle against a particularly ugly witch, unfazed by the hideousness due to his blindness. ---
**Author:** ![History\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b19c9b/32.png) [@History\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/History_Geek)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/107 "2010-11-17T19:20:12Z")
No mystery here. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/108 "2010-11-18T03:08:07Z")
I like Rush and I’m kinda geeky. Or I was back in the day. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/109 "2010-11-18T04:47:22Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > I like Rush and I’m kinda geeky. Or I was back in the day. Limbaugh? ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/110 "2010-11-18T05:37:22Z")
> [@Turble](#): > > My grandmother’s pronunciation of “terrible”. LOL! ---
**Author:** ![Kesamet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@Kesamet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kesamet)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/111 "2010-11-18T06:37:46Z")
Reversal of Temasek - old name for Singapore where I currently reside ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/112 "2010-11-18T09:48:46Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] Srsly? No idea? 😉 [/QUOTE] OK, I can guess. I suppose I could have gone for **Major Clanger** but 1) It would feel a bit presumptuous and 2) He was a bit of a chump whose flying machines/space craft\* tended not to work when Small Clanger’s did\*\*. \*make sense yet? \*\* Small Clanger pilots the _music boat_. But of course you knew that 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![I\_Know\_Nothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f04885/32.png) [@I\_Know\_Nothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Know_Nothing)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/113 "2010-11-18T13:10:18Z")
It’s a socratic homage to my own ignorance. I like how you couldn’t use spaces in old filenames, and had to use the underscores. I also don’t know anything. A few seconds after selecting my username I wanted to change it to I\_Know\_Knothing, but I was too late. I have to live with this mistake every day of my life. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/114 "2010-11-18T13:32:44Z")
It’s the phonetic spelling of a pun played off ‘wunderbar’, the German word for wonderful. That, and my real given name is Robert. The inspiraton came from the punchline of an Amish ethnic joke; it was so otherwise boring that I don’t remember it well enough to repeat it. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/115 "2010-11-18T13:41:50Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > It’s the phonetic spelling of a pun played off ‘wunderbar’, the German word for wonderful. That, and my real given name is Robert. > > The inspiraton came from the punchline of an Amish ethnic joke; it was so otherwise boring that I don’t remember it well enough to repeat it. I’ve been losing sleep trying to imagine an Amish joke. Please tell what you can remember of it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/116 "2010-11-18T14:02:40Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > I’ve been losing sleep trying to imagine an Amish joke. Please tell what you can remember of it. 🙂 Not the joke in question, but one I do remember well because I was there when my dad told it to my cold fish grandfather; I never saw so much emotion from him before or after. Spoilered, in case someone else doesn’t like Polish jokes, too. A Polack once had a farm next to an Amish farmer. Knowing that the Amish were famed for their carpentry skills, he asked his neighbor if he would help cut a larger doorway into the barn, because the mule’s ears hit the top of the door when led through, and were constantly bloody. The Amishman said sure, and went to look at the problem. “You have structural members surrounding the door, but nothing underneath. Instead of making the doorway bigger, why not dig out the threshhold instead?” The Polack replied, “You stupid Amishman, the mule’s ears are too long, not his legs!” Now you know why Amish jokes never made it big. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/117 "2010-11-18T14:55:44Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Not the joke in question, but one I do remember well because I was there when my dad told it to my cold fish grandfather; I never saw so much emotion from him before or after. > > Spoilered, in case someone else doesn’t like Polish jokes, too. > > A Polack once had a farm next to an Amish farmer. Knowing that the Amish were famed for their carpentry skills, he asked his neighbor if he would help cut a larger doorway into the barn, because the mule’s ears hit the top of the door when led through, and were constantly bloody. > > The Amishman said sure, and went to look at the problem. > > “You have structural members surrounding the door, but nothing underneath. Instead of making the doorway bigger, why not dig out the threshhold instead?” > > The Polack replied, “You stupid Amishman, the mule’s ears are too long, not his legs!” > > Now you know why Amish jokes never made it big. 😉 Beautiful! Thanks. I had heard it but without the Amish twist. A good one for sure. In a way it reminds me of this one: Two Polacks were roofing a house and one of them kept pulling nails out of his bag and tossing them away. His buddy asked, “Why are you throwing those perfectly good nails away?” So the first one replied, “They’re pointed the wrong way.” So the second scoffs and says, “You imbecile! They’re for the other side of the roof!” ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/118 "2010-11-18T17:27:14Z")
From “The Truman Show”, of course. I hesitated many months from registering because I have no imagination to speak of, and you all intimidated me with the wit and sparkle of your user names. Then I rented the the movie to show my kids, and what the heck… ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/119 "2010-11-18T17:36:13Z")
I thought you were a _Hogans Heroes_ fan. “I Know Nothing” was Sergeant Schultz famous line. https://www.youtube.com/embed/jzYpADZiv00?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque > [@I\_Know\_Nothing](#): > > It’s a socratic homage to my own ignorance. > > I like how you couldn’t use spaces in old filenames, and had to use the underscores. > > I also don’t know anything. > > A few seconds after selecting my username I wanted to change it to I\_Know\_Knothing, but I was too late. I have to live with this mistake every day of my life. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/120 "2010-11-18T17:47:12Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Funny. I always pictured a drunk hobo with a Star Wars fixation > [@Lobohan](#): > > You don’t think that’s bad-ass? Touché, Darth Hobo, touché. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677.md?page=7)