# Custom title under user name

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-title-under-user-name/431068>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [December 23, 2007, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-title-under-user-name/431068 "2007-12-23T23:30:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Aceospades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Aceospades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aceospades)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-title-under-user-name/431068/1 "2007-12-23T23:30:12Z")

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[In this thread here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=448821) **Boyo Jim** has a custom title under his name. when did this happen? How can i get one?

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-title-under-user-name/431068/2 "2007-12-23T23:37:20Z")

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[Link.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=447818)

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**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-title-under-user-name/431068/3 "2007-12-23T23:38:27Z")

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Honorary titles aren’t handed out unless you achieve notariety somewhere else on the Internets and we all think it’s really cool, whatever it was you did.

**BoyoJim** entered & won the [Bulwer Lytton Contest](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=430953).

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**Author:** ![Aceospades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Aceospades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aceospades)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-title-under-user-name/431068/4 "2007-12-23T23:51:16Z")

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sorry. i do most of my SDMB reading on my Mogul PPC and don’t see peoples titles. i just came across it today. thanks guys.