saw a car with Mass license plates "BAKU" today.
That's actually the correct spelling ... my screen-name is a mis-spelling, and I did it that way because it was my original screen-name at AOL, but someone already had the corectly spelled version ... so my mispelled version carried over into other areas of my life.
Spelled with the "h" it is a town in Burma, but that's not the meaning behind my screen-name ... it should be Baku, and it is an imaginary creature in Japanese folklore that eats bad dreams, (smoeday maybe I'll write the entire story about it and how it came to be my screen-name ... it's rather involved, and I've already responded with much more than anyone cares to hear about.
It would be interesting to have a thread where people can guess about other screen-names here, and then the owner can finally give an explanation as to the origins. Just a fun idea.