Mine is a nickname given a while back. I'm too lazy to explain it, but it has nothing to do with my real name, I now have several friends who have never called me by my real name, they just say bdot, and to imagine them say my first name is weird.. My first initial is not B and my last name is not Ling. I was given this nickname back in 2003, so pretty much invented the dot nicknames. I also started the dust the shoulders off dance in 1999, though farmer probably invented that back in the 1800s when he was actually dusting his shoulders off.