Explain Your DU Username! [View All]

[UrbScotty]

I haven’t seen any “Explain Your Username” threads in a while.

A couple years ago, I was watching a rerun of “Home Improvement.” As you may know, Tim Allen’s character – the main character – was a host of a fictitious show called “Tool Time,” along with Al Borland (played by Richard Karn, who now hosts “Family Feud”).

On one episode of “Tool Time,” they were auctioning off classic cars for charity. To bid, Tim encouraged interested buyers to call 1-800-Z-CARZ-4-U (as in “The Car’s For You”).

One day a little while later, I thought, “You know, the DNC could use a good phone number like 1-800-I-H8-Z-GOP” (“I hate the GOP”).

It stuck, and I wanted to use it for my username on political discussion boards. However, I wanted a creative username that people would understand. I came up with ih8thegop. It’s basically my generic username all over the internet.

Then I found DU a year ago this past August, and the rest is history! :-)