# Why did you change your username? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 12, 2007, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-change-your-username/426191 "2007-11-12T23:05:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-change-your-username/426191/21 "2007-11-14T00:15:10Z")
I was tired of seeing “Liberal” misused to mean “Authoritarian”. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-change-your-username/426191/22 "2007-11-14T00:18:17Z")
You too huh? ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-change-your-username/426191/23 "2007-11-14T00:30:27Z")
enolancooper was just too blah. Enola Straight is a play on words (from the Enola Gay, the B-29 which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima)…on other boards I frequent, it sometimes took months for those members to make the connection. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-change-your-username/426191/24 "2007-11-14T04:21:47Z")
Is anyone else reading this thread and remarking to themselves “Hey, so that’s where \ went! I never knew…” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-change-your-username/426191/25 "2007-11-14T05:57:39Z")
Never mind. I misunderstood the question. I thought it was “why did you choose your user name?” I haven’t changed mine, so it doesn’t apply to me. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-change-your-username/426191/26 "2007-11-14T14:33:01Z")
I almost changed mine once because I discovered a patron at a local pub I frequent was also a Doper. We exchanged screen names; then later on when I was at home, I got to thinking I didn’t want this dude going back and reading all my previous posts. Then I thought to myself “Ah, fuck it. I don’t have anything to hide.” (I was mainly worried that I may have been talking shit about my fellow patrons at said bar. I didn’t want him going back and telling everybody at the bar I had been talking about their dirty laundry on some message board. 😃 Hey, I never gave any names out.) ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-change-your-username/426191/27 "2007-11-14T15:49:30Z")
The Pygmies were my college rugby club. I was the captain of that team, so I held onto the name for a couple years, but I play for Santa Fe now, so I figured it was time to get a name makeover. ---
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-change-your-username/426191/28 "2007-11-14T16:03:54Z")
**black455** was a subtle reference to a band I used to be in that eventually broke up, and I agonized for weeks over a new handle. Then one day, while listening to Turbonegro and re-reading _Watership Down_, I had an epiphany. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-change-your-username/426191.md?page=1)