# Confusing posters as similar names. (astorian & asterion) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 25, 2009, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941 "2009-01-25T19:18:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/1 "2009-01-25T19:18:19Z")
I know \*\*astorian \*\*as he often posts in sports threads, especially baseball and of course Simpson threads. He is a charter member and has a fair amount of posts but not a huge number. Or do I know \*\*asterion \*\*instead? I just noticed for the first time there are two seperate Charter Members I pleasantly interact with on the boards. They have about the same number of posts but \*\*astorian \*\* is the sports fan and \*\*asterion \*\* is the Simpsons fan. What are some other confusing pairs. I know a few posters confuse my username with \*\*WhyNot \*\*and \*\*What the … !!! \*\* Jim ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/2 "2009-01-25T19:29:11Z")
Lately **Quasimodem** and **Quasimodal** posts have been confusing the hell out of me. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/3 "2009-01-25T19:44:33Z")
I don’t know if I post here enough to be confused with anyone, but there is this **lust4life** person floating around. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/4 "2009-01-25T19:54:38Z")
I confuse myself with **Kal** sometimes, in a “Wait, I don’t remember posting that” way. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/5 "2009-01-25T19:56:32Z")
We’ve got a **monster** , a **Monstre** , and a **monstro**. And **Monstera deliciosa**. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/6 "2009-01-25T20:01:29Z")
> [@fisha](#): > > Lately **Quasimodem** and **Quasimodal** posts have been confusing the hell out of me. Which is who? I know there are two different posters with those similar names but I forget how to tell the difference by name only. > [@lost4life](#): > > I don’t know if I post here enough to be confused with anyone, but there is this **lust4life** person floating around. \*\*lust4life \*\*is the Brit I think. Is that right? I don’t have you tagged in my head at all I think. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/7 "2009-01-25T20:10:56Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Which is who? I know there are two different posters with those similar names but I forget how to tell the difference by name only. **Quasimodal** is a 26-year-old teacher, **Quasimodem** is a music fan and maybe sometime gamer who was diagnosed recently with Early Onset Alzheimer’s. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/8 "2009-01-25T23:31:39Z")
> [@Kat](#): > > I confuse myself with **Kal** sometimes, in a “Wait, I don’t remember posting that” way. I do the same thing with **KRC**. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/9 "2009-01-25T23:34:45Z")
> [@KGS](#): > > I do the same thing with **KRC**. Me, too, with **freekalette**. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/10 "2009-01-26T09:55:08Z")
I think I was confused with **Carol Stream** once - given our very different values I’m not sure either of us would feel good about that. ---
**Author:** ![Carson\_O\_Genic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Carson\_O\_Genic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carson_O_Genic)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/11 "2009-01-26T12:58:44Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > I think I was confused with **Carol Stream** once - given our very different values I’m not sure either of us would feel good about that. I for one would never make that mistake with you. The names could as well be “Night” and “Day”. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/12 "2009-01-26T15:50:05Z")
I sometimes do a bit of a double take when I see a post by **Sateryn76**. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/13 "2009-01-26T15:50:17Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Which is who? I know there are two different posters with those similar names but I forget how to tell the difference by name only. > \*\*lust4life \*\*is the Brit I think. Is that right? I don’t have you tagged in my head at all I think. Yep I’m as English as tea and fish and chips. My Ghast was well and truly flabbered the first time that I became aware that there was a poster called **lost4life** now I’m expecting any day soon to come across someone called lest4life. Perhaps we could start a club or something. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/14 "2009-01-26T16:09:58Z")
> [@Lust4Life](#): > > Yep I’m as English as tea and fish and chips. > > My Ghast was well and truly flabbered the first time that I became aware that there was a poster called **lost4life** now I’m expecting any day soon to come across someone called lest4life. > > Perhaps we could start a club or something. Ghast? I don’t understand its use in your post. BTW: I hope Brit was not unintentionally insulting. I use it in the same way I expect Yank to be used. I think I verified it is not insulting or at least not from an American. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/15 "2009-01-26T16:27:49Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Ghast? I don’t understand its use in your post. You’ve never been flabberghasted? You’ve never lived. People keep confusing me for **WhyNot,** which is silly as we’re nothing at all alike. Particularly since she shaved her beard. ::runs and hides:: ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/16 "2009-01-26T16:36:38Z")
> [@WotNot](#): > > You’ve never been flabberghasted? You’ve never lived. > > People keep confusing me for **WhyNot,** which is silly as we’re nothing at all alike. Doh! :smack: I just whooshed myself again. I can see the confusion but I feel like I know and like \*\*WhyNot \*\*too well to confuse her with anyone else. I’m sure it happens often though. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/17 "2009-01-26T17:16:03Z")
There’s a couple of **JSomethings** , like **JSexton** , **JThunder** , **JShore** , and I believe one more that I’m having difficulties telling apart. Also, I think I tend to throw the inquisitive Ws all in one bucket – **What Exit?** and **WotNot** above, **WhyNot** , and I think there’s a **What The…?!** or something, too. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/18 "2009-01-26T17:31:49Z")
Fairly recent related [thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=496794&highlight=names+great) ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/19 "2009-01-26T18:51:51Z")
Sometimes i confuse myself with **Critical1** , i always get this weird “wth i don’t remember saying that” feeling when reading his posts. ---
**Author:** ![AllWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@AllWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllWalker)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/20 "2009-01-26T23:04:35Z")
For people who momentarily mistake someone else’s name for their own… the trick is to click on your own user profile, and no one elses. That way, your name will be the colour of a recent link, grey in my case. Success! Wont work for everyone (shared computes, for instance) but still, you’re welcome. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941.md?page=2)