# anally **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 12, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anally/347989 "2006-03-12T00:55:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anally/347989/1 "2006-03-12T00:55:54Z")
I have been e-corresponding with a very pleasant woman whose email address at work is dictated rigidly by her company as follows: “initial of first [name,lastname@company.com](mailto:name,lastname@company.com),” with the name part being a single word. Unhappily her last name is “Nally” and her first name begins with an “A”–there’s nothing she can do about having all her email come to her anally, either. The company insists that they require that all e-mails comply with the system they’ve devised. (If there were another A. Nally he or she would be “[anally2@company.com](mailto:anally2@company.com)”). There’s another guy named “Ward” whose first name also begins with “A”–it’s less jarring to get an email from “[award@company.com](mailto:award@company.com)” but it always gives me a start. I always think I’ve won some fabulous prize or distinction when this guy writes to me. Can anyone come up with a normal-seeming name that would be even worse than “anally”? It may serve as comfort for this poor afflicted woman. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anally/347989/2 "2006-03-12T01:15:24Z")
Just offhand: Francine Uecker (there is a Bob Uecker, after all) ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anally/347989/3 "2006-03-12T01:19:14Z")
> [@pseudotriton ruber ruber](#): > > The company insists that they require that all e-mails comply with the system they’ve devised. That’s pretty anal. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anally/347989/4 "2006-03-12T01:24:18Z")
Paul Enis Steve Megma Charles Rotch Barbara All Yes, those are all real last names of someone, someplace. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anally/347989/5 "2006-03-12T01:25:35Z")
I did know a C. Litynsky; she came close to filling the bill, but AFAIK, she had no problem with the combination. Maybe I’m just sick. ---
**Author:** ![yBeayf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@yBeayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yBeayf)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anally/347989/6 "2006-03-12T02:36:58Z")
The much-mocked David Icke, following this scheme, would have the email address [dicke@company.com](mailto:dicke@company.com). A guy who used to work for one of my company’s joint ventures had to log on to our network every day with the username “bobo”. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anally/347989/7 "2006-03-12T03:25:49Z")
I was once waited on by an absolutely charming young woman with the last name **McAnally** (pronounced _MAC_-a-nally\* - thank Og for small favors - yes, I asked). ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anally/347989/8 "2006-03-12T03:27:02Z")
At my high school, they used your last name followed by your first initial. My name? Ryan Stone. **stoner**. :smack: My brother? Daniel. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anally/347989/9 "2006-03-12T03:38:07Z")
Most of the guys I went to school with would have loved those addresses, Rysto. \>\_\> Which probably says a lot about my friends… ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anally/347989/10 "2006-03-12T03:50:18Z")
> [@Rysto](#): > > At my high school, they used your last name followed by your first initial. My name? Ryan Stone. **stoner**. Coulda been worse. Your surname might have been Bone. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anally/347989/11 "2006-03-12T04:15:48Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > Coulda been worse. Your surname might have been Bone. Then there was the company where the emails were the first two letters of your first name, then your surname. Poor old Andrew Alcock had a miserable time. And I’ve mentioned it before on these boards, but there’s a politician in my state called Richard Face. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anally/347989/12 "2006-03-12T04:45:20Z")
I worked with a guy named F---- Uckert at a company with the same naming convention. IT did make an exception in his case. ---
**Author:** ![Greenback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/2bfe46/32.png) [@Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greenback)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anally/347989/13 "2006-03-12T04:58:33Z")
> [@pseudotriton ruber ruber](#): > > …there’s nothing she can do about having all her email come to her anally, either. Can any phone line plug in or does it have to be high-speed? ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anally/347989/14 "2006-03-12T06:18:30Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > Coulda been worse. Your surname might have been Bone. :eek: Poor Daniel! ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anally/347989/15 "2006-03-12T06:22:45Z")
I raced to this thread seeing that it was called “anally” and **Anastasaeon** was the last poster. Needless to say, I was dissapointed. FWIW, my high school had a F. Ring and a B. In (the latter often giving people pause after 9/11, which occurred in her junior year). ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anally/347989/16 "2006-03-12T06:47:00Z")
> [@Greenback](#): > > Can any phone line plug in or does it have to be high-speed? They need to lay a cable. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anally/347989/17 "2006-03-12T12:50:21Z")
Steve Melly. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anally/347989/18 "2006-03-12T23:05:05Z")
> [@Beware of Doug](#): > > I was once waited on by an absolutely charming young woman with the last name **McAnally** (pronounced _MAC_-a-nally\* - thank Og for small favors - yes, I asked). That name came up in our database. Or should I say it didn’t come up in our database. The data entry typist naturally thought it was a typo. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anally/347989/19 "2006-03-13T01:31:09Z")
Whislt bored at work, I found a gentleman in the database with a user name, effectively, of “aka douche.” ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anally/347989/20 "2006-03-13T02:01:08Z")
that Brenda Utthead is such a whiner [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anally/347989.md?page=2)