# Your Wu Name

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wu-name/15287>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 28, 2000, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wu-name/15287 "2000-03-28T19:59:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![occ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8c91f0/32.png) [@occ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/occ)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wu-name/15287/61 "2000-03-29T15:14:00Z")

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Dependable Skeleton.

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**Author:** ![idiotboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@idiotboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/idiotboy)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wu-name/15287/62 "2000-03-29T15:35:00Z")

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For my real name I am: **Lesbian Pimp**

For my MB name I am: **Spunky Misunderstood Genius**

How true… 😃

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**Author:** ![Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trout_Mask_Replica)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wu-name/15287/63 "2000-03-29T16:14:00Z")

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Trout MaskReplica: Jive Talkin’ Choirboy  
TroutMask Replica: Curly-Haired Slacker  
My real name: Ol’ Filthy, Sweaty Bastard

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TMR  
You will buy the ukulele, and touch every place.

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**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wu-name/15287/64 "2000-03-30T06:27:00Z")

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> Anyone have any thoughts on how this thing works? It’s not randomised, it’s not by the number of letters, and it’s not by the first two letters of the first and last name. Any thoughts?

Apparently it works this way:

Each letter is worth a number; a=1, b=2,…, z=26.

Add up the numbers for your first name, and add up the numbers for your last name, and you get an ordered pair of numbers, which corresponds to some set name.

For example, Bill Gates gives

Bill = 2+9+12+12 = 35  
Gates = 7+1+20+5+19 = 52

and (35,52) corresponds to Flailing Fanatical Killer.

Order is important–Bill Gates gives a different name than Gates Bill (Sabre-Toothed Portillo).

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**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-wu-name/15287/65 "2000-03-29T21:10:00Z")

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Julie Foolie gets me violent toilet thang.

a slightly derived version of my own name gets me Grand Moff Puppeteer,

Much nicer dontcha think?

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