# 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:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**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:** [November 4, 2006, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/101 "2006-11-04T02:17:59Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] Some how a SCUBA diver in a tub made more sense. [/QUOTE] That would be **Diogenes the Cynic**. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Push\_Up\_Bra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/edb3f5/32.png) [@Freudian\_Push\_Up\_Bra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Push_Up_Bra)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/102 "2006-11-04T03:35:26Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] 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) [/QUOTE] So _that’s_ where she went! That makes things so much easier for me now! (Yes I’ve been lurking for something close to two or three years now). I just realised I also did the **Tub Diver** thing. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/103 "2006-11-04T08:04:27Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] 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. [/QUOTE] It sounds like P-I-C-U nurse in my head, but Pick You is ok, since the units I’ve worked in were referred to either way. Just as long as no one reads “nurse” as “nose,” I’m cool… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/104 "2006-11-04T09:43:10Z")
I tend to read Mangetout as “Magnet Trout,” for some reason. (The image that comes to mind is some kind of magnetic trout, not merely a magnet shaped like a trout, mind you. Obviously, the latter would just be _insane_.) And a number of people, I’ve noticed, have called me “Ranc **l** oth”…not just on the SDMB. I’ve seen it on at least two other messageboards, with little or no user overlap. I have _no. idea. why._ ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/105 "2006-11-04T10:34:38Z")
[QUOTE=Ranchoth] I tend to read Mangetout as “Magnet Trout,” for some reason. (The image that comes to mind is some kind of magnetic trout, not merely a magnet shaped like a trout, mind you. [/QUOTE] That’s just silly, everyone knows that only lobster sticks to magnet. ---
**Author:** ![gabriela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@gabriela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gabriela)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/106 "2006-11-04T10:57:41Z")
Would that be anything like a chick magnet? ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732/107 "2006-11-04T11:04:43Z")
I always read **Triskadecamus** as **Triskaidecamus** , as in from the Greek for three-and-ten. Quite what it would mean in the Greek, I forget. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confusion-on-doper-names/378732.md?page=5)