# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/21 "2009-01-26T23:07:19Z")
If I’m skimming a thread to look for my post, so I can start reading replies after me, I often see **Marley23** as my name. I have no idea whatsoever why his name makes me stop, thinking it’s mine…but there you have it. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/22 "2009-01-26T23:42:59Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > 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 I always confuse you for me. It’s just the capital W & E, there’s nothing else similar about our names but it’s enough to confuse me sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Elysian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@Elysian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysian)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/23 "2009-01-27T02:25:10Z")
I took a hiatus from the boards and now there’s an **Elysium** posting here. ---
**Author:** ![PopeJewish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@PopeJewish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PopeJewish)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/24 "2009-01-27T06:57:08Z")
> [@Lust4Life](#): > > Yep I’m as **English as tea** and fish and chips. Tea isn’t English, it’s Chinese (or possible SE Asian) it only came to England in like the mid-1600’s (wikipedia says 1660) whereas the chinese have been drinking it since 1000 BC 😛 [WikiCite](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea) ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/25 "2009-01-27T09:15:28Z")
I don’t think there is another **Mudshark** here, but I do the same thing with **Quasimodal** and **Quasimodem**. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/26 "2009-01-27T15:30:46Z")
> [@PopeJewish](#): > > Tea isn’t English, it’s Chinese (or possible SE Asian) it only came to England in like the mid-1600’s (wikipedia says 1660) whereas the chinese have been drinking it since 1000 BC 😛 > > [WikiCite](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea) And what we Brits call chips(Fries) are actually originally from Belgium. OK I’m as English as only something that is really,really,English that took advanced studies in English at England University which is in England could be. Except that on second thoughts I’m actually half Scots. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/27 "2009-01-27T16:41:21Z")
Anyone else get Mangetout and Mangeorge mixed up at first glance? I sometimes have to do a double take when an Englishman appears American and vice versa in a thread. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/28 "2009-01-27T17:12:26Z")
Every now and then I’ll see something and wonder why in the hell my wife would be saything that. Then I realize it was posted by **kittenblue** , not **kittenlm**. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/29 "2009-01-27T17:32:03Z")
I sometimes see **cochrane** as me when I’m scanning, and it makes me make that little confused Scooby Doo noise. ---
**Author:** ![Dilton\_Doiley\_Philosopher\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f1d935/32.png) [@Dilton\_Doiley\_Philosopher\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dilton_Doiley_Philosopher_King)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/30 "2009-03-24T13:41:06Z")
This thread is almost two months old, but the second post in this thread is still very relevant. [This thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=511285) was started by Quasimodal, but I initially thought it was Quasimodem. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/31 "2009-03-24T13:59:37Z")
There used to be a poster here called **jarbabyj** , whom I would ALWAYS mistake for me when reading quickly through a thread. Always stopped me short, especially if I didn’t remember ever responding to that particular thread. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/32 "2009-03-24T14:11:05Z")
Well, there is (or was) a poster named **zeldarae** but except for one occasion when she (I’m pretty sure) asked me if my name was like hers and made from two relatives’ names like hers was, (which it isn’t), I can’t remember seeing her post in a single thread. Nothing all that spectacular when you consider that at the Nashville Dopefest where we had maybe 20-25 people there, I had only bumped into maybe five of them online. You can spend your whole tenure here and never meet the majority of the posters. I’m guessing I can name 100 others from memory. Just the other day I was making a list of my “most successful threads” and in the process clicking on the “who posted” link and copying the names of the people who had contributed more than some minimal amount to those threads. I guarantee those lists combined wouldn’t run to 100. And most of them I’ve yet to see in other threads. Something about forums and threads just draws a select few, and you can stay in your own little circle without a lot of effort. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/33 "2009-03-24T14:15:18Z")
There is a **Shiftless** that sometimes makes me do a “I didn’t post that!” double-take. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/34 "2009-03-24T15:12:14Z")
I skimmed over this thread title on a run-through of the forum and was a little confused at first. ---
**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/35 "2009-03-24T15:14:25Z")
I get \*\*Annie X-mas \*\*and \*\*Anne Neville \*\*confused a lot. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2009, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/36 "2009-03-24T15:37:18Z")
> [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](#): > > I get \*\*Annie X-mas \*\*and \*\*Anne Neville \*\*confused a lot. I find they have such distinctly different personalities, I have no problem with being confused. It helps that I have met **Annie** , but I have strong impressions of both of them. Anne seems very logical and calm in her writing. Annie is very enthusiastic and very Broadway oriented and maybe a little more flow-of thought. (Like me.) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/37 "2009-03-24T16:43:10Z")
I do post in baseball threads, but I have never watched “The Simpsons” and have never posted on that topic, as far as I can remember. Sure that wasn’t asterion? I was born and raised in Archie Bunker’s neighborhood, Astoria (Queens), New York, which was how I came up with my name. I’m not sure what asterion’s name means. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2009, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941/38 "2009-03-24T17:42:38Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > I do post in baseball threads, but I have never watched “The Simpsons” and have never posted on that topic, as far as I can remember. > > Sure that wasn’t asterion? > > I was born and raised in Archie Bunker’s neighborhood, Astoria (Queens), New York, which was how I came up with my name. > > I’m not sure what asterion’s name means. Leave it to a Met fan… 😉 [QUOTE=Op] 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**. [/QUOTE] 🙂 When I started this thread two months ago it was because I had only then caught on that there were two of you and \*\*asterion \*\*was the Simpsons fan. I just thought you were a single poster that liked the Simpsons and Baseball. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusing-posters-as-similar-names-astorian-asterion/482941.md?page=1)