What does your name mean?

"TheOnelectronic" (theoneelectronic)
11/06/2013 at 02:22 • Filed to: None

We've got some weird names here, when you think about it. Dan Mosqueda isn't that hard to figure out, but where did $kaycog come from? Dogisbadob? I am legitimately curious, so let's hear it; where did your name come from?

Mine comes from a webcomic, "Rice Boy" by Evan Dahm. It mostly just sounds cool.

DISCUSSION (100)

YSI-what can brown do for you > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 02:25

I am Indian, I like to make fun of Indians. . . and there you go

The Real Dacia Sandero > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 02:39

Well...

Simplify, then add beer > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 02:40

Much like Colin's mantra, I aim for simplicity. However, I end up getting drunk and needlessly complicate things, like "hey lets route the 12 power socket off the heater so I can switch it on and off!"

911e46z06 > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 02:40

Slightly out of order, but I reckon you get what I was goin' for.

Kinja'd!!!

TheOnelectronic > The Real Dacia Sandero
11/06/2013 at 02:41

Your love of good news?

OkCars- 22k Crossroads > 911e46z06
11/06/2013 at 02:46

tzzz your garage is amazing

OkCars- 22k Crossroads > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 02:47

I got it from

Kinja'd!!!

911e46z06 > OkCars- 22k Crossroads
11/06/2013 at 02:48

Thanks man

The man in the iron mask > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 02:49

mine is pretty self explanatory

Your boy, BJR > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 02:53

Mine is my name but with the "Mr" for added sophistication.

promoted by the color red > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 02:54

Remember how we used to have promoting? Well, I thought it was funny how every starred comment had a "promoted by (username)" and I decided to play off it.

Gamecat235 > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 02:55

Kinja'd!!!

Michael Ballaban > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 02:55

"Michael" – One who is like God, in the Hebrew.

"Ballaban" - from "Balaban," roughly translated as "hawk" in Ukrainian, or something else in Turkish.

911e46z06 > Michael Ballaban
11/06/2013 at 02:59

Ha!

AussieGit > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 03:07

Mark Webber's twitter handle is @AussieGrit

and i'm just a bit of an aussie git...

TheOnelectronic > Gamecat235
11/06/2013 at 03:18

I remember this explanation.

OkCars- 22k Crossroads > AussieGit
11/06/2013 at 03:31

what does that mean ive heard it yeah many times in f1

Rainbow > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 03:36

It's a combination of my favorite weather, my favorite accessory, and my favorite punctuation mark.

Or it's just from that thing I don't care about much anymore, and I would change it, but I think it's kind of set in place now so whatever.

TheOnelectronic > Rainbow
11/06/2013 at 03:41

I'm sure it has nothing to do with the Pony by the same name...

Rainbow > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 03:44

Honestly, I like to think it doesn't. Sure said pony is pretty adorable, as nearly all of them are, but meh. The show overstayed its welcome. So as of now I keep it because I've had it long enough, it has a nice ring to it, and for some reason I love the word "rainbow." Something about it sounds amazing for some reason.

Enginerrrrrrrrr > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 03:44

I'm an engineer. And we don't spell good, some stutter.

Actually a friend has the plate "enginer" because it doesn't fit all the letters on there. Then I took some creative license to it. The first line is true though.

Squid > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 03:53

It is supposed to represent this:

My favorite sea animal.

Not supposed to be associated with this:

Squid > Squid
11/06/2013 at 03:55

I might have been kinja'd with the images, in any case google "architeuthis" for the first, and "squid motorcycle" for the second to get what my point was. . .

Tentacle, Dutchman, drives French > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 03:56

Mine is taken tongue-in-cheek style from the Jargon File. I used it elsewhere before joining Jalopnik/Oppo.

http://www.eps.mcgill.ca/jargon/jargon.…

An artificial identity created in cyberspace for nefarious and deceptive purposes. The implication is that a single person may have multiple tentacles.

Milky > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 04:09

Its my name!! Or rather my nickname I go by in real life, seeing how people call me by my last name, Mielke.

Joe_Limon > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 04:22

Joe:average person
Limon:lemon/lime, symbolic of new and refreshing.

Joe_Limon:average person doing new and refreshing things.

JustWaitingForAMate > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 04:24

This fella.

Kinja'd!!!

JustWaitingForAMate > JustWaitingForAMate
11/06/2013 at 04:25

It used to be ennzed because my initials are N Z, but people kept thinking I was a kiwi, and I can't have that.

TheOnelectronic > Milky
11/06/2013 at 04:34

I went to high school with a Michael* Mielke.

I have to imagine she got tired of explaining that.

*never actually saw it written out, so I have no idea how it was spelled.

TheOnelectronic > Joe_Limon
11/06/2013 at 04:34

So it's "lime-on" and not "Limb-on"?

TheOnelectronic > JustWaitingForAMate
11/06/2013 at 04:35

No you can't.

AussieGit > OkCars- 22k Crossroads
11/06/2013 at 05:04

pretty much a git is an idiot ha

Hoccy > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 05:06

Someone called me "Hoccy" in secondary school, about the same time as I started using computers, so I started using it where I needed some kind of anonymity. I figured that it was a good international version of my real name, Håkon. I think I'm the only one to use it as well, at least in that form

Håkon is an old norse name, and it means "a descendant of horse".

A good name for a physically strong person.
He loves demanding challenges.
A man that follows the times.

Beware, his ego lives up to it.

Dusty Ventures > Enginerrrrrrrrr
11/06/2013 at 05:16

Regarding engineers and spelling, my brother is an engineer as well and spelling/grammar has traditionally been his weakness (though he seems to have it pretty much sorted now). We used to joke that his brain was so math-centric that if you showed him a poem instead of reading it he'd try to solve for y.

Dusty Ventures > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 05:19

Mine comes from my race team, Dusty Ventures Motorsports, which in turn got its name because we're a desert race team run by a Boy Scout Venture Crew. So on race day after a few trucks have gone by we become dusty venturers.

vermillion-fire > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 06:16

Kinja'd!!!

Google 'vermillion fire', select images, you should soon see.

Mine.

D > Dusty Ventures
11/06/2013 at 06:19

he'd try to solve for y

Hey, maybe engineers would make great philosophers.

A Clockwork Burning Chrome > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 07:11

Mine should be pretty obvious...

BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 07:17

Mine is for the Integra I still wish I had. The 3rd gens having the quad "bugeye" headlights.

Mattbob > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 07:28

I went to school in Flint MI. It is a terrible place. I am happy I'm out of there.

Tom McParland > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 07:36

Thanks for posting this it's cool to see how folks got their names...as for mine, you already know. :)

xxstich666xx > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 07:43

I made most of my online accounts around 2003 right after Lilo and Stitch came out. Add to the fact i was a 12 year old that couldn't spell.

KnowsAboutCars > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 07:50

I just wanted to help a fellow opponaut to recognize a car so I needed to come up with the name fast and as I love everything car related I didn't want it to be car/modification style/motorsport specific.

CalzoneGolem > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 08:13

Well, I'm a magical construct made of delicious calzones.

D&D nerd thought it would be funny and unique id. Turns out there are people who created rules for creating cazlone golems in D&D games.

https://the-mercurial-grounds.obsidianportal.com/characters/cal…

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

As a golem, the calzone golem is incapable of strategy or tactics.

fhrblig > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 08:18

Mine is from The Tick comic book series. He gets a job as a crossword puzzle editor for a newspaper in order to stalk a Superman-like character, but gets fired because his crossword puzzle has only two words: fhrblig and Pabst.
"Yeah, but they cross!"

TheJWT > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 08:20

JWT stands for JW Tuning, a non-existent tuning company that exists only in my head. My dream is to start it for real one day, as unlikely as that may be. I added "The" because I liked the sound of it.

Brewman15 > Enginerrrrrrrrr
11/06/2013 at 08:23

I'm an engineer too, and I always liked this joke. Usually it's on T-shirts and coffee mugs that I would never buy, but still funny.

Kinja'd!!!

Brewman15 > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 08:30

I think mine is pretty self-explanatory.

I own a '93 Volvo 940 turbo wagon.

It looks like a brick.

It's sorta quick.

I added the two together to make a rhyme.

The end. :)

f86sabre > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 08:38

I'm an Aerospace engineer, I like planes and I like the look of the F86.

$kaycog > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 08:42

Interesting thread! I just took some of the letters in my real name and jumbled them up and changed the s to $.

ColoradoTaco > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 08:45

Because I live here:

Kinja'd!!!

and drive this:

Kinja'd!!!

Dubblewhopper > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 08:50

Dubblewhopper......BK's own burger w/ cheese please and extra tomato! I have another name or handle on tech sites, like Tom's Hardware, it is HR HuffnPuff. A twist on HR Puffnstuff (a psychedelic kids show). Well, my ahem, " tobacco" pipe is named HR HuffnPuff.

willkinton247 > JustWaitingForAMate
11/06/2013 at 08:53

This is absolutely hilarious

RMudkips > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 08:54

RMudkips comes from RainingMudkips, my TrackMania name. It was just a funny name I came up with, Pokemon references and all.

It got shortened to its current form when I tried putting RainingMudkips on a FPS and it maxed out the character length, so I just shortened it to RMudkips. People call me just Mudkips.

Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 08:57

About a decade ago, I did something rather stupid: got a free tattoo. At the time, I was living in a trailer, with 2 broken-down cars out front and a neighbor who used a toilet as a planter in her front yard. I was working in a cigarette store and driving a beat up old pickup truck.
The tattoo, embarrassing as it is now, is "White Trash" across my belly.
So for a while - from about 2003-06, everyone who met me was introduced to "White Trash Steve. "

RMudkips > $kaycog
11/06/2013 at 08:57

Watch somebody figure out your name.

MoparKetchup > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 08:59

Kinja'd!!!

My name is not that deep.

1) I love to eat.

2) I love Mayo Ketchup (same as fry sauce... for optimal flavor, mix with fresh minced garlic)

3) Mayo ketchup is a very common sauce we use with our typical Puerto Rican foods, like alcapurrias, bacalaitos, empanadillas de jueyes and mofongos.

Conclusion: My name represents a cultural culinary staple of what it means to be Puerto Rican.

Autophile412 - what's the world got in store? > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 09:00

I is a double meaning.

autophile - one who loves his/her self. (although I sometimes loathe myself)

philo - a strong affinity or preference; love.

auto - an automobile or car.

and the last part is always a reference to a Wilco lyric. I am going to start changing that to include Butch Walker lyrics as well.

$kaycog > RMudkips
11/06/2013 at 09:08

That's going to be funny.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Mattbob
11/06/2013 at 09:09

Congratulations on your escape, are they aware that you got out?

I hear they send search parties for escapees...

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 09:11

Mine's pretty simple. I own a 1968 Mercury Montego MX. Most people don't know what a classic Montego is let alone what it looks like, and car wise I'm kind of obsessed with it and probably talk about it way too much on here lol. Oh, and 562 is my favorite number.

Kinja'd!!!

Mattbob > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
11/06/2013 at 09:12

Thanks! I don't think they know I got out though. Don't tell anyone.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Mattbob
11/06/2013 at 09:15

I won't, secret's safe with me. Can't speak for the rest of the guys in here tho...better go underground.

I hope you didn't escape Flint just to end up in a crap area of Detroit though.

quarterlifecrisis > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 09:19

Bought Corvette at 25. Was ribbed by peers for buying a mid-life crisis car at a young age. Meh.

Mattbob > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
11/06/2013 at 09:23

I work in Farmington Hills now. Quite the upgrade.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 09:32

You have to do a two step to figure mine out.

1) The whole thing is two Japanese words.

2) The first Japanese word translated to English then will point you in the direction of one of the most interesting minor characters in Star Wars. Who is also worthy of the second Japanese word as a title.

Bonus cookie to who can figure it out.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > CalzoneGolem
11/06/2013 at 09:38

I was in one D&D campaign playing as a Golem, who rode on the back of a giant turtle (while the rest of the party stayed in a magical hut which allowed the turtle to be underwater without killing them. I needed no such trifles.)

Tactics were completely ignored, and bonus XP was awarded because my character could only say "Reagan smash!" It was not explained how he could speak.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Mattbob
11/06/2013 at 09:39

Wait a minute...

So do I.

Mattbob > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
11/06/2013 at 09:44

Oh man, I hope we don't work in the same place. Then we would both know we have co-workers who are slacking off, browsing oppo. I hate having slacker co-workers.

CalzoneGolem > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
11/06/2013 at 09:46

I DM'd a game where I played a gnomish wizard with a golem that he was constantly working on. Some days he'd be better than others. Eventually the golem got so big that my gnome just rode around on him.

kanadanmajava > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 09:46

Beaver species that was introduced in Finland after the natives were hunted to extinction. That was actually a mistake as they acquired American beavers instead of European ones.

Me using this name is long going inside joke that wasn't extremely funny to begin with. It started after my friends started to discuss about beaver length and weight numbers when they ran out of interesting subjects.

Did you know that North American beaver can weigh up to 35kg?

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Mattbob
11/06/2013 at 09:50

CRAP

I wish there was a way to private message so we don't have to say where we work and admit to the world there are potential slackers in our company.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > CalzoneGolem
11/06/2013 at 09:50

I think if you wanted to bend the rules as to be unrecognizable, and you had appropriate skill level, you could animate and then claim your golem as a familiar.

Or take a level in Skill (Veterinary Surgery) and stuff animal organs in the golem so it no doubt qualifies under the rules for familiars.

(Oh dear God, RamblinRover's rule craziness has rubbed off on me!)

revrseat70 > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 09:53

I was trying to come up with a sn for my first car's forum 8 years ago. It was my first non-video-game sn so I was stumped. Then my friend randomly asked me "what would happen if he shifted a car into reverse at 70 mph?" I told him jokingly it would sound like a grenade going off under his right hand followed by the sound of a rainstick. We had an unusually great laugh at that for some reason, and I had my sn.

CalzoneGolem > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
11/06/2013 at 09:53

I just treated them as a gnomish wizard and a warrior. They got exp together and I could either put it into the golem or the wizard. Whatever I thought would be most useful to the party.

Joe_Limon > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 10:01

yep

Cajun Ginger > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 10:03

I'm half Cajun all ginger. (Except when I dye my hair purple)

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > CalzoneGolem
11/06/2013 at 10:05

Whatever I thought would be most useful to the party.

Now there's the difference. I tend to do things on whichever is just flat sillier.

CalzoneGolem > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
11/06/2013 at 10:07

As a player I'm always going to go with sillier.

As the DM it only makes my life harder. Plus I thought a Gnome riding a wooden golem around was pretty silly.

Mattbob > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
11/06/2013 at 10:10

We'll I work for a European company. That should be vague enough and still give a clue.

King Ginger, not writing for Business Insider > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 10:13

I have a ridiculously high opinion of myself and I am a redhead. It is also ironic.

Casper > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 10:15

Because it's what I'm called.

PRBot II > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 10:19

I got the idea from Ray Wert's Tiny Toy Car.

"The name comes from how a child looks at a tiny toy car and all they see is a story."

Kinja'd!!!

I used to have a red Viper when I was a child. Even as a kid, I really hated those God-awful early 90's wheels. That's the "story" I try to bring to Oppo... my lifelong opinion on automobile design. Looks matter to me more than any other aspect of a car. I'll take a slow beautiful car over fast ugly car every time.

The same goes for my avatar, it's like a custom resto-mod. The starred commenter system was done away with a while ago, but I wrenched on an aftermarket star for the looks. Curb appeal is everything... well, to me that is.

However, I don't recommend this outlook on image when it comes to dating. That's another story. >_<

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Mattbob
11/06/2013 at 10:22

CRAP is it in automotive at all?

Mattbob > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
11/06/2013 at 10:24

Very much so.

N/A POWAAAHH > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 10:26

I drive an n/a subie, and it's has power(not really)

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Mattbob
11/06/2013 at 10:31

OK these 2 questions will settle it, Farmington Hills isn't that big after all.

Does this company sell cars? If not, does this company ALSO work on American automotive business?

Mattbob > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
11/06/2013 at 10:34

Doesn't sell cars. Supplies to American companies as well.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Mattbob
11/06/2013 at 10:37

Would this service that's provided be in a marketing/advertising nature?

Enginerrrrrrrrr > Dusty Ventures
11/06/2013 at 10:37

Haha yeah it is usually true. Luckily for me I have a creative side too, my mother wanted me to go to art school, I wanted a job. I've always had a knack for spelling too ;)
I would make a math joke about the poem, but I am going to just sigh and move on past the fact that I even thought of it...

Mattbob > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
11/06/2013 at 10:39

Nope. Not at all. I'm an engineer. I guess it's a bigger town than we thought.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Mattbob
11/06/2013 at 10:43

WHEW close call.

Next summer we can do an Oppo meet up though, I'll bring the Montego.

Mattbob > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
11/06/2013 at 10:44

Haha, ok. I guess I'll have to get a nicer car then. I drive an old jeep.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Mattbob
11/06/2013 at 10:48

Nothing wrong with an old jeep, is it modded for some fun?

SonorousSpeedJoe > TheOnelectronic
11/06/2013 at 10:51

I was trying to be a bit creative since "Turbo Joe" is relatively common and likely already taken, and "Sonorous Speed" came to mind. It reminded me of taking fast cars through tunnels to hear the exhaust reverberate off of the walls, such as when Richard Hammond took an Aston Martin through a tunnel on Top Gear . I liked it, so I tacked my name on the end and went with it.