# 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:** 7
**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, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/121 "2010-11-18T17:47:39Z")
I worked at an Ace Hardware in high school and college. People started calling me Ace. I liked the nic and kept it. ---
**Author:** ![luvrbcs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@luvrbcs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luvrbcs)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/122 "2010-11-18T20:09:52Z")
We have a couple of neurotic Border Collies. ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/123 "2010-11-18T21:11:34Z")
Arrested Development. ---
**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, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/124 "2010-11-18T21:14:02Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I thought you were a _Hogans Heroes_ fan. “I Know Nothing” was Sergeant Schultz famous line. > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzYpADZiv00](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzYpADZiv00) Ha!! I’ve seen the show a few times in my life, never made the connection. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/125 "2010-11-18T21:26:50Z")
I was born in Sandy Hook, Kentucky. ---
**Author:** ![gurujulp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@gurujulp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gurujulp)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/126 "2010-11-18T21:56:04Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Funny. I always pictured a drunk hobo with a Star Wars fixation. Have you been in North Oakland/Berkeley lately? That guy is really smart, but fucking nuts! Um. I have explained before. ---
**Author:** ![Walmarticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Walmarticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walmarticus)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/127 "2010-11-18T22:07:59Z")
absolutely nowhere. which sorta pisses me off. Why can’t anything creative come half as easily in my personal life? ---
**Author:** ![kapri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kapri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapri)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/128 "2010-11-18T23:56:32Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > You’re [Jordan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Price_(Jordan))? > If you really are Jordan, I don’t actually want to know. Ha. No, but close. Really, really close. (with the name, I mean–not to her or what she does) ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/129 "2010-11-19T02:27:34Z")
I was watching my digital TV pixal-ize an image just because the signal wasn’t perfect, and started musing over the downsides of digital technology. Stringing together a bunch of 0’s and 1’s lets us do lots of stuff, but there are trade-offs. On the bright side, I make cell phones for a living…so there’s a significant upside too. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/130 "2010-11-19T13:50:34Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > I was watching my digital TV pixal-ize an image just because the signal wasn’t perfect, and started musing over the downsides of digital technology. Stringing together a bunch of 0’s and 1’s lets us do lots of stuff, but there are trade-offs. > On the bright side, I make cell phones for a living..so there’s a significant upside too. You need to start a thread on this issue, if there isn’t one already. I find the distinction itself to be almost digital! Or analog. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/131 "2010-11-19T14:59:20Z")
I’m an avid gamer and have used this name as a RP character name for a very long time. I’d RP it as a spin off from Young Frankenstein, where I was a poor landless nobleman off looking for his wife who had run off with her boyfriend. ---
**Author:** ![Orionizer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orionizer/32/4442_2.png) [@Orionizer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orionizer)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/132 "2010-11-19T15:51:26Z")
Favorite constellation is Orion. Used to use it in all my online games, but somebody took it once, so I came up with this as I was sure noone would take it (or really even want to take it). 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/133 "2010-11-20T03:41:19Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > You need to start a thread on this issue, if there isn’t one already. I find the distinction itself to be almost digital! Or analog. [Done](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=13163479#post13163479). -D/A ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/134 "2010-11-20T03:59:51Z")
Old comic strip (Krazy Kat). ---
**Author:** ![Registered\_at\_Last](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Registered\_at\_Last](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Registered_at_Last)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/135 "2010-11-20T04:38:04Z")
I lurked for 5 years or so before I … ---
**Author:** ![dzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@dzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzero)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/136 "2010-11-20T06:18:04Z")
[Dzero](http://www-d0.fnal.gov/) is one of the experiments at Fermilab’s Tevitron (synchrotron - like LHC but smaller). I really admire scientists and particle physicists especially but never had the ability to go that way myself. So I guess picking a username like that makes me a poseur of sorts but since only people who have some interest in what goes on at Fermilab would know about it of the top of their heads, hopefully not too many people realize this. Ooops. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/137 "2010-11-20T06:19:38Z")
Taomist is a conglomerate of Taolynn and Mistwalk, my first two MMO characters of note. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/138 "2010-11-20T06:52:04Z")
> [@dzero](#): > > [Dzero](http://www-d0.fnal.gov/) is one of the experiments at Fermilab’s Tevitron (synchrotron - like LHC but smaller). I really admire scientists and particle physicists especially but never had the ability to go that way myself. So I guess picking a username like that makes me a poseur of sorts but since only people who have some interest in what goes on at Fermilab would know about it of the top of their heads, hopefully not too many people realize this. > Ooops. hehe, I’m similar. Grew up outside Chicago, and my dad used to drive us through the Fermilab area. The building itself, that double-skyscraper thingy with the bridge, that was neat on it’s own, but I also recall driving through a bunch of small, simple square houses in a variety of colors…pink, bright blue, green, etc…that were on the grounds. I somehow got it in my head that they were experiment houses, like they did bombs on them or something and then tested for radiation. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![dzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@dzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzero)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/139 "2010-11-20T19:55:22Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > hehe, I’m similar. Grew up outside Chicago, and my dad used to drive us through the Fermilab area. The building itself, that double-skyscraper thingy with the bridge, that was neat on it’s own, but I also recall driving through a bunch of small, simple square houses in a variety of colors…pink, bright blue, green, etc…that were on the grounds. I somehow got it in my head that they were experiment houses, like they did bombs on them or something and then tested for radiation. 😛 The main building is incredibly impressive. I guess it’s about 15 stories and the lobby atrium goes right to the top floor IIRC. When I was there, they had a pendulum suspended from the ceiling. It was a huge brass ball with a stylus attached. It was making the typical pattern in a large tray of sand. That building was as awe inspiring as any gothic cathedral I’ve ever been in, and when I was in SW England, London and Paris I od’ed on gothic cathedrals. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677/140 "2010-11-20T21:34:02Z")
Inspired in the early 80’s by a college professor’s insistence on making a programming interface “user-friendly”. To which I replied, “As opposed to ‘user-hostile?’” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whered-your-username-come-from/560677.md?page=8)