Anyone ever read Doper's name as something than what they are?

[pulykamell]

@faithfool

[li]pulykamell – I’m not really sure how to pronounce it anyway, but it always, for me, comes out as pukeymale and I swear that’s not an insult![/li]

My name seems to have caused consternation to several dopers in past. It’s actually approximately pronounced POOY-kaw-mell. It means “turkey breast” in Hungarian. There is no significance behind the name other than I was living in Budapest when I came up with it. I am neither Hungarian, nor do I particularly like turkey breast (thigh man, myself.) It’s just a food item that seems to be on every damned menu in Hungary, and I guess my brain latched on to it when I was creating my screen name.

[The_Devil_s_Grandmother]

@lieu

I had to go look up “gourmandism.” Didn’t even know it was a real word. Now it’ll be rolling off my tongue for the next hour, much like gum with his newly discovered “douchebag.” Somewhere in Amsterdam a guy’s walking around lyrically repeating “douchebag… douchebag… douchebag.”

<snort!> I still remember fondly the day the SDMB taught me about Ass-Gaskets. I giggled all day. I thought about changing my user name to that, but I’d already changed it a few times already and didn’t want to annoy the mods further.

[Mangetout]

@lieu

I had to go look up “gourmandism.” Didn’t even know it was a real word.

The odd thing is that my IRL surname also derives from the word gourmand - nominative determinism, I reckon.

[lieu]

Grandmother Ass-Gasket: Coolest username ever.

[Ethilrist]

I always see Amazon Floozy Goddess as Amazon Floozy Goodness, which works, too.

[SPOOFE]

I always see spoofe as spooje and vice versa.

Heh, sorry. Blame spooje. He’ll understand…

[CanvasShoes]

I don’t know if it counts as 'reading the name wrong", but I always see Lobsang as sort of a cool “rock lobster” sorta character.

I read Lobsang, but I SEE LobSTER. I don’t know why.

[BiblioCat]

@Rufus Xavier

It took me a little while to realize your user name was pronounced No Doubt, rather than Cowed Out (I didn’t notice the n, you see. )

I just got that, about Knowed Out’s name. :smack:

[Ethilrist]

@CanvasShoes

I don’t know if it counts as 'reading the name wrong", but I always see Lobsang as sort of a cool “rock lobster” sorta character.

I read Lobsang, but I SEE LobSTER. I don’t know why.

Maybe you’ve got ang-ster management problems.

sorry.