# Confusion on Doper names **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 1, 2006, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732 "2006-11-01T15:16:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/81 "2006-11-03T19:04:50Z")
They’re “Sir Vase” ( **Cervaise** ) “Triskacademus” like - 3 schools, or something ( **Triskadecamus** ) and “Reverant Threshold” like the entryway to a church ( **Revenant Threshold** ) in my own personal world. And for the longest time, I thought \*\*Contrapuntal \*\*was against being late, or perhaps anti-comma (“Contrapunctual”), but we finally got that cleared up. And I myself have occasionally gotten myself mixed up with **WotNot**. Once in a while I’ll read a post and think, “Huh, that doesn’t sound like something I’d write!” only to find upon closer examination that it isn’t. And \*\*Draelin \*\*and I apparently share a soul or something, because the number of coincidental ways in which our entirely separate lives are identical is just too eerie for words. Once in a while I’ll read a post of hers and think, “Oh, I guess I posted in this thread already and forgot!” only to find, upon closer examination, that I haven’t! ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/82 "2006-11-03T19:11:58Z")
**Anastaseon** is a girl, and I should remember that. **Malacandra** is a boy, and I should remember that. **Kythereia** has an ‘e’ after the r, and you should all remember that, please. 🙂 ---
**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:** [November 3, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/83 "2006-11-03T19:14:16Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] **Anastaseon** is a girl, and I should remember that. **Malacandra** is a boy, and I should remember that. **Kythereia** has an ‘e’ after the r, and you should all remember that, please. 🙂 [/QUOTE] \*\*Askia \*\* is also a man. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/84 "2006-11-03T19:24:24Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] \*\*Askia \*\* is also a man. [/QUOTE] Reminds me, I’m glad **What Exit?** signs his posts, because for some reason I keep thinking he’s female. I don’t know why. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/85 "2006-11-03T19:30:24Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] **Anastaseon** is a girl, and I should remember that. **Malacandra** is a boy, and I should remember that. **Kythereia** has an ‘e’ after the r, and you should all remember that, please. 🙂 [/QUOTE] And \*\*Anastasaeon \*\* has an “a” after the second “s”, you should remember that if you would like me to remember your extra “e”, m’lady. 😛 I tease, I tease, I couldn’t resist! **Cervaise** , like **E. Thorp** , I used to hear in my mind as more french-sounding, but upon meeting him and being corrected, I like the sound of that more. However, a little _too_ much more. As he pointed out, many people pronounce his name like the Spanish word for beer: _cervaza_. So now when I go to a Mexican restaurant and someone orders a beer, I mutter: _Cervaise_. Not _cervaze_! Also, **Cervaise** wrote Don Quixote. Pray you never see me on _Jeopardy!._ ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/86 "2006-11-03T19:31:30Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] \*\*Askia \*\* is also a man. [/QUOTE] A _smoooove_ man. ---
**Author:** ![UKCatGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@UKCatGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UKCatGirl)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/87 "2006-11-03T19:33:21Z")
Most of mine have been posted, but I swear I’ll never stop seeing **Bosda Di’Chi of _Terror_**. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/88 "2006-11-03T19:35:08Z")
You know, it was just yesterday but now today, without bothering to scroll back up and look, I’ve already forgotten how **Cervaise** was supposed to be pronounced. Sorry pal, but you’re stuck being _Sir-vase_ in my head. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/89 "2006-11-03T19:52:28Z")
[QUOTE=Antinor01] Reminds me, I’m glad **What Exit?** signs his posts, because for some reason I keep thinking he’s female. I don’t know why. [/QUOTE] Possibly because WhyNot? and WhatThe&_&_&\*? are female? It is part of the reason I do sign my posts. Jim 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/90 "2006-11-03T19:53:31Z")
[QUOTE=Anastasaeon] And \*\*Anastasaeon \*\* has an “a” after the second “s”, you should remember that if you would like me to remember your extra “e”, m’lady. 😛 [/QUOTE] :eek: Mea culpa! How can I make it up to you? ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/91 "2006-11-03T20:04:29Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] :eek: Mea culpa! How can I make it up to you? [/QUOTE] One harem of lightly oiled cabana boys, please! ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/92 "2006-11-03T20:22:04Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Possibly because WhyNot? and WhatThe&_&_&\*? are female? It is part of the reason I do sign my posts. Jim 😉 [/QUOTE] Hmm, that’s always possible. Or its just one of those bizarre things my brain does to me at times. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/93 "2006-11-03T20:23:22Z")
[QUOTE=Anastasaeon] One harem of lightly oiled cabana boys, please! [/QUOTE] Make that two! (not that you have anything to make up to me, but it doesn’t hurt to ask) ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/94 "2006-11-03T21:31:35Z")
[QUOTE=fishbicycle] I do remember that **yBeayf** is from the Isle of Man, and his name is pronounced “uh-BAY-uff”, and it’s Gaelic (?) for something. [/QUOTE] It’s Manx for [_the toad_.](http://www.websters-online-dictionary.net/translation/Manx/beayf) [QUOTE=Freudian Push Up Bra] SolGrundy and HarimadSol. One is a gay man, the other is a woman. They both talk about men and liking them. [/Quote] You _had_ been lurking for a while before starting to post – **Harimad-sol** has been **Telperien** [since January of this year.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=354649&highlight=Telperien) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/95 "2006-11-03T21:51:06Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] For me it’s **picunurse**. Until she posted about a nursing topic, I thought of it as “pick you nurse”, when what it stands for is “PICU nurse” – a nurse in a pediatric intensive care unit. [/QUOTE] For a while (until I read it closer) I read it as Picanurse. I always pictured her at her keyboard posting to the dope and eating handfuls of dirt and asphalt and rusty nails (iron depletion doncha know). Even though a Pica nurse would be treating people with pica, not neccisarily suffering from the disorder themselves. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/96 "2006-11-03T22:08:52Z")
[QUOTE=Joey P] For a while (until I read it closer) I read it as Picanurse. I always pictured her at her keyboard posting to the dope and eating handfuls of dirt and asphalt and rusty nails (iron depletion doncha know). Even though a Pica nurse would be treating people with pica, not neccisarily suffering from the disorder themselves. [/QUOTE] I’ve dealt with a lot of disorders over the years, but the only person I’ve ever known with pica was another nurse, while she was pregnant. And, just to clarify, my iron level is just fine, thanks. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/97 "2006-11-03T22:20:36Z")
[QUOTE=picunurse] I’ve dealt with a lot of disorders over the years, but the only person I’ve ever known with pica was another nurse, while she was pregnant. And, just to clarify, my iron level is just fine, thanks. 😃 [/QUOTE] So, what does your username sound like in your head? 'Cause in my head, it sounds like “Pick-you-nurse”, because 'round these parts, the pediatric intensive care unit is called the PICU, pronounced “Pick-you”. No one says “Pee-eye-see-you”. I think that I always knew your name referenced the PICU, because my dad works both NICU and PICU. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/98 "2006-11-03T22:24:28Z")
[QUOTE=norinew] It didn’t occur to me that anyone would read my name as nori new until people in threads started addressing me as “nori”. [/QUOTE] Nuh uh. Norine EWWWWWW. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/99 "2006-11-03T22:50:01Z")
**Gus** is my nickname. a **N** d [**Spot**](http://members.aol.com/gusnspot/pickherup.JPG) is my old chopper’s name. (Every where she goes, she leaves a spot of oil, hence her name.) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/100 "2006-11-04T01:13:51Z")
Am I the only one who thought, for a while at least, that all submissions for threadspotting should be sent to **Tub Diver**? The concept of a tuba diva wouldn’t penetrate my brain even though I was reading the words. Some how a SCUBA diver in a tub made more sense. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732.md?page=6)