# Doper names you always mis-read even though you know what they are. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 14, 2007, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955 "2007-12-14T03:15:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/41 "2007-12-14T19:34:41Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] I do the same thing. (Think he’s you, that is.) I used to think **fessie** was me, too, and in my “changed my name” thread she said she made the same mistake. And mine as “Mangytrout”. Yikes. **norinew** always has been and always will be one word to me. Sorry, Norine. And I missed the **Throatwarbler Mangrove** joke somehow. Can someone link me to the appropriate thread or something? [/QUOTE] Monty Python: > [@](#): > > Interviewer: Good evening. I have with me in the studio tonight one of Britain’s leading skin specialists - Raymond Luxury Yacht. > > Raymond: That’s not my name. > > Interviewer: I’m sorry - Raymond Luxury Yach-t. > > Raymond: No, no, no - it’s spelt Raymond: Luxury Yach-t, but it’s pronounced ‘Throatwobbler Mangrove’. > > Interviewer: You’re a very silly man and I’m not going to interview you. > > Raymond: Ah, anti-semitism! > > Interviewer: Not at all. It’s not even a proper nose. (takes it off) It’s polystyrene. > > Raymond: Give me my nose back. > > Interviewer: You can collect it at reception. Now go away. > > Raymond: I want to be on the television. > > Interviewer: Well you can’t. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/42 "2007-12-14T19:38:33Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] And I missed the Throatwarbler Mangrove joke somehow. Can someone link me to the appropriate thread or something? [/QUOTE] It’s from Monty Python’s Flying Circus, a sketch involving a guy whose name is “Raymond Luxury-Yacht” but “it’s pronounced Throatwarbler Mangrove.” YouTube clip [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyQvjKqXA0Y). ETA: Or, what **Leaffan** said. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/43 "2007-12-14T19:51:02Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] And this is nuts, but to me \*\*Sampiro \*\* reads out as Sampire-O, to where it would read as rhyming with vampire, so even though one has nothing to really do with the other, \*\*Sampiro \*\* is a vampire to me. [/QUOTE] Lately, I’ve been picturing **Sampiro** looking like Santino from Project Runway. Ironically, when I was Googling for a picture of him I came across a guy calling himself the [Vampire Santino.](http://www.geocities.com/vampiresantino/) Dude seems to take himself seriously. Or it’s Sampiro just messing with us. I still think of **norinew** as nor I (k)new, even though I’ve always known better. [QUOTE=WF Tomba] …I thought ChiefScott was ChefScott. Sorry, man! [/QUOTE] Add my apologies too. I do the same thing. Now, everyone raise your hands if you think my name is pronouced Tee-Kee. It’s Tic-Kee, you silly geese! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/44 "2007-12-14T19:52:26Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] And this is nuts, but to me \*\*Sampiro \*\* reads out as Sampire-O, to where it would read as rhyming with vampire, so even though one has nothing to really do with the other, \*\*Sampiro \*\* is a vampire to me. [/QUOTE] Actually, the word _Sampiro_ refers to an [Albanian vampire.](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_039.htmle) ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/45 "2007-12-14T19:53:38Z")
When I see **pulykamell** my brain voice pronounces it as “pukey camel.” I kind of like her, too, but her name will always reflect a nauseated dromedary to me. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/46 "2007-12-15T00:09:12Z")
[QUOTE=Rysdad] When I see **pulykamell** my brain voice pronounces it as “pukey camel.” I kind of like her, too, but her name will always reflect a nauseated dromedary to me. [/QUOTE] I may be wrong (since **pulykamell** ditched out on the dopefest and all 😛 ), but I believe that’s a male you’re talking about. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2007, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/47 "2007-12-15T02:09:41Z")
[QUOTE=Peak Banana] I always read **Der Trihs** as “The Thris” and wonder what the heck a “Thris” is, even though I \*know \*it’s just “Red Shirt” backwards. [/QUOTE] I always thought it was some German thing myself, like “Der Kommissar” or something-I’m kind of disillusioned actually that it merely means “red shirt”. Perhaps then I shall change my handle to “Setor Dmeh” and make people think I’m referencing some alien political leader from a Jerry Pournelle novel or something… ---
**Author:** ![coffinjumper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@coffinjumper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffinjumper)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/48 "2007-12-15T02:21:02Z")
I keep mentally adding an extra ‘R’ to **eleanorigby** ’s name. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/49 "2007-12-15T02:24:27Z")
In a somewhat-related vein, the local public broadcasting network is KPBS, and now that I’ve lived here for 10+ years, I’m given to misread KBPS as KPBS. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/50 "2007-12-15T03:04:31Z")
I’m constantly confusing\*\* Justin Credible \*\*and \*\*Justin\_Bailey \*\*since the former recently joined. Also, \*\*asterion \*\*is the bane of my existence. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/51 "2007-12-15T03:15:21Z")
> [@](#): > > I’ve always read Gorgon Heap as Gordon Heap. I have to admit, **Happy** , I have to go back and reread your name every time because I always think it says **Ledbedder** at first. Like the Pearl Jam song. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/52 "2007-12-15T03:31:25Z")
That may be how Eddie Vedder sings it but the song is _Yellow Ledbetter_. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/53 "2007-12-15T03:38:45Z")
I also recently found out that, having ridden myself of confusion with **fessie** , I can now get myself confused with **Helen’s Eidolon**. C’est la Dope. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/54 "2007-12-15T03:45:52Z")
[QUOTE=interface2x] I may be wrong (since **pulykamell** ditched out on the dopefest and all 😛 ), but I believe that’s a male you’re talking about. [/QUOTE] You might very well be right. I think I just view **Puly** as female after reading (her? his?) remark about something “really frosts my tits”, or something like that. Puly, if you’re a dude, I apologize. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/55 "2007-12-15T03:50:01Z")
**Aesiron** , I figured and did a check, but nearly everybody mispells it, so I figured what the heck. I listen to nearly all my music on the radio, so I never learned how to spell. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/56 "2007-12-18T18:21:46Z")
[QUOTE=Emilio Lizardo] For the longest time I thought **Elendil’s Heir** was **Elendil’s Hair**. [/QUOTE] Alas, this heir has less and less hair… ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/57 "2007-12-18T18:26:45Z")
If I mis-read names, I don’t know it, but I’m as guilty as anyone of interchanging posters whose names have the same initial letter and general length (and capitalization). The latest pair is **Idle Thoughts** and **Incubus**. It totally changed the character of my thoughts towards Idle’s girlfriend in a recent advice thread when I realized that she wasn’t the person that Incubus had described previously. (Saying more would be dangerous–especially since for all I can be certain of, the previously described person was associated with someone else). ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/58 "2008-01-04T16:52:46Z")
[QUOTE=Rysdad] You might very well be right. I think I just view **Puly** as female after reading (her? his?) remark about something “really frosts my tits”, or something like that. Puly, if you’re a dude, I apologize. [/QUOTE] Sorry, just noticed this thread today. Yeah, I’m a guy. I probably used the phrase “gets on my tits.” I thought it was a universal expression, but it seems that I must have picked it up from one of my English or Scottish friends. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/59 "2008-01-04T19:31:15Z")
**Gatopescado** always read as gay-toe es-ca-pee-doh to me. **msmith** I always think as Miz Smith. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/60 "2008-01-04T23:27:11Z")
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