# Call me Happy.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-happy/670287
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 3, 2013, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-happy/670287 "2013-10-03T18:31:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2013, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-happy/670287/1 "2013-10-03T18:31:54Z")
I feel sorry for the poor souls who reference me in a thread (on the rare occasion that someone does) and feel the need to spell out my whole name. Some get it right, some call me “Happy Lavender.” Some think “Happy” is an adjective describing a “Lendervedder,” in which case they are still forced to spell out the word “Lendervedder.” Regardless, let me make things simpler for all your fingers.
Call me Happy. It’s my first name here. No need to go the “Charlie Brown” route every time you refer to me.
Anyone else care to offer up shorthand or a nickname for their long username?
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### Author:  [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2013, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-happy/670287/2 "2013-10-03T18:48:51Z")
People in other places just started calling me “Asi” on their own. It’s never bothered me. Feel free.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-happy/670287/3 "2013-10-03T19:00:49Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#):
>
> I feel sorry for the poor souls who reference me in a thread (on the rare occasion that someone does) and feel the need to spell out my whole name. Some get it right, some call me “Happy Lavender.” Some think “Happy” is an adjective describing a “Lendervedder,” in which case they are still forced to spell out the word “Lendervedder.” Regardless, let me make things simpler for all your fingers.
>
> Call me Happy. It’s my first name here. No need to go the “Charlie Brown” route every time you refer to me.
>
> Anyone else care to offer up shorthand or a nickname for their long username?
For some reason, many people here feel the need to type my whole name as well, when it’s pretty obvious that my names **Bo** and “Snowboarder” is an adjective that serves to differentiate me from all the other people named Bo. Some folks here have even referred to me as **Snowboarder** , for reasons I don’t care to ken.
So please, y’all can call me **Bo** ; it’s my name.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-happy/670287/4 "2013-10-03T19:02:19Z")
Hi, Happy!
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-happy/670287/5 "2013-10-03T19:03:11Z")
**Soapy, Ivory** or\*\* ITD\*\* seem to have stuck.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2013, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-happy/670287/6 "2013-10-03T19:04:55Z")
Hi, Happy!
I’m usually only called **Prof. Pepperwinkle** over on the Bible Study thread. Otherwise, it’s **the Prof.** or **Prof P.** I’m amused when someone calls me **Prof. Periwinkle**.
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2013, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-happy/670287/7 "2013-10-03T19:06:51Z")
Got it: OP is Happy [claps hands].
(feel free to call me\*\* bb\*\*)
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### Author:  [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2013, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-happy/670287/8 "2013-10-03T19:09:37Z")
Call me whatever you like, just not late for dinner!
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-happy/670287/9 "2013-10-03T19:12:16Z")
> [@blondebear](#):
>
> Got it: OP is Happy [claps hands].
Hey if I’m Happy and you know it, I’ll clap my hands too!
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2013, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-happy/670287/10 "2013-10-03T19:14:18Z")
Just avoid ancient Greeks: Solon and Aeschylus are both cited as the source of the old quote: “Call no man happy until he is dead.”
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2013, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-happy/670287/11 "2013-10-03T19:38:53Z")
Even though it screws with my hourly vanity searches, I’m fine with being called **Hal**.
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### Author:  [@want2befree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2befree)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2013, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-happy/670287/12 "2013-10-03T19:45:59Z")
Call me Want for now. I hope to change to Free soon.
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### Author:  [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-happy/670287/13 "2013-10-03T19:48:35Z")
**bu** -
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### Author:  [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-happy/670287/14 "2013-10-03T20:01:52Z")
I prefer it when people refer to me as IS, but I don’t mind pretty much any variation. I’ve been called Inner, Stickler, stickles, sticks and stix and I’ll respond to any of them.
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### Author:  [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2013, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-happy/670287/15 "2013-10-03T20:03:30Z")
You can call me Blob or The Blob, but please don’t call me Bob.
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### Author:  [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-happy/670287/16 "2013-10-03T20:13:04Z")
Call me **Martian**. Or you can keep calling me **Martin** , too, if you absolutely insist, although it’s not actually my name.
\*\*MB \*\*is fine, too (just don’t call me **BM** ).
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### Author:  [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2013, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-happy/670287/17 "2013-10-03T21:37:09Z")
I hate it when I’m referred to as **picu**. I’m **Nurse** , please.
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### Author:  [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2013, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-happy/670287/18 "2013-10-04T00:18:06Z")
People sometimes refer to me as just **Emily** here, without the G, though I have a short enough username that people usually just call me the whole thing.
I was nicknamed “ **Midget** ” in the MMP threads (EmilyG became EmG which became MG which became Midget.) Which is actually a bit of an “opposite” name as I am actually unusually tall.
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### Author:  [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2013, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-happy/670287/19 "2013-10-04T00:30:09Z")
I am called **Capt, Cap’n, Kirk and Jim** , I don’t mind any of it. **Happy** this post sent me to the Doper Pics site, saw **OpalCat** again. I need to post a few pics there myself.
**Capt**
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### Author:  [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2013, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-happy/670287/20 "2013-10-04T00:36:02Z")
You guys are lucky. People always misspell my name as **No Douchebag** , or **Moron**.
Lev is fine.
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