# Calling all Members with "and" in their name(s) **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 25, 2007, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-members-with-and-in-their-name-s/389423 "2007-01-25T17:09:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-members-with-and-in-their-name-s/389423/21 "2007-01-27T05:43:43Z")
[QUOTE=C K Dexter Haven] We are not amused. [/QUOTE] Neither are we, because that seemingly innocent remark opens a whole new can of worms. Let’s say that a new member joins this message board. Her location is given as Windsor, and her profile tells us that her hobbies include travel, horse racing, corgis, opening parliaments, and consoling divorced children. Her user name is **TopBitch** and she is currently shacked up with another new member who calls himself **TheDorkOfEdinburgh**. Without a word of introduction **TopBitch** leaps into GQ with a deeply _recherché_ question, something like: _We would like to know what is the current protocol in Royal Circles vis-a-vis dipping the end of one’s banana into one’s marmalade. If our banana is 12 cm in length, what is the correct weight of preserve permissible on the end of that banana in established Aristocratic Society. Please give answers in Imperial Measure and assume marmalade is Medium Cut with bits in. We thank you in advance._ Just the sort of subject Comrade **Mapcase** can get his teeth into. What is the current board rule concerning members who insist on posting in the first-person plural thereby drawing suspicion on themselves and possibly unsettling other members with this totally unnecessary and gratuitously affected style? Thank you in advance. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-members-with-and-in-their-name-s/389423/22 "2007-01-27T09:23:55Z")
What about the "or"s? Why is the disjunctive operator always ignored? :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-members-with-and-in-their-name-s/389423/23 "2007-01-27T11:22:58Z")
This way madness lies. Regards, Shodand ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-members-with-and-in-their-name-s/389423/24 "2007-01-27T13:53:34Z")
[QUOTE=Molly & Polly] Are you speaking today as **Antin** or **01** 😕 [/QUOTE] > [@Liberal](#): > > What about the "or"s? Why is the disjunctive operator always ignored? :mad: You’re both missing the point. The Doper whom **M&P** quoted is actually the **01** who has a strong philosophical antipathy to the negative disjunctive operator. In short, he is the **Anti-“nor” 01**. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-members-with-and-in-their-name-s/389423/25 "2007-01-27T14:30:08Z")
Bah. ::trudges out of thread:: ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-members-with-and-in-their-name-s/389423/26 "2007-01-27T14:38:58Z")
[QUOTE=Shodan] This way madness lies. Regards, Shodand [/QUOTE] Shod and what? Not socked, I hope? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-members-with-and-in-their-name-s/389423/27 "2007-01-27T20:03:19Z")
[QUOTE=FordPrefect] you missed the most famous of all: tomndebb Sure it’s not the full “and”, but still it would seem to be two names. [/QUOTE] But that Deb always seems to have better things to do. And what about Polycarp? Lots of fishes…? –g and g ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-members-with-and-in-their-name-s/389423/28 "2007-01-27T22:10:25Z")
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara] What is the current board rule concerning members who insist on posting in the first-person plural thereby drawing suspicion on themselves and possibly unsettling other members with this totally unnecessary and gratuitously affected style?. [/QUOTE] It’s not that at all. It’s just that there’s a frog in our pocket. ---
**Author:** ![williamweigand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b3f665/32.png) [@williamweigand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williamweigand)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-members-with-and-in-their-name-s/389423/29 "2007-01-29T15:41:49Z")
I’m disappointed. I wasn’t in the list. ---
**Author:** ![jimbeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/858c86/32.png) [@jimbeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbeam)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-members-with-and-in-their-name-s/389423/30 "2007-01-29T15:55:06Z")
This reminds me of a Geico commercial… I keep looking for the Ne **and** thal guy to show up whining. and BTW **Dex** who the hell is this we that you were referring to. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-members-with-and-in-their-name-s/389423/31 "2007-01-29T17:49:51Z")
Well, Left H thinks we oughtta fess up, but Of Dorkness disagrees, so we’re keeping mum. Daniel [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-members-with-and-in-their-name-s/389423.md?page=1)