Doper names you always mis-read even though you know what they are.

A lot of people, including me, would look at ronincyberpunk and se it as rouncybouncypunk, or something like that.

So he changed it to ImprovGeek, and I had to point out that I saw THAT as ImprovedGreek.

That’s funny, because I do too (think he’s you, not think he’s me).

I get HazelNutCoffee and HilarityNSuze confused.
Sorry.

litoris

Do I have to explain?

For the longest time, I thought Bobotheoptimist was an optometrist named Bob. It’s stuck.

holy shit this is still exactly how I read it!!

Since we’re on the topic of usernames, does yours have anything to do with the book Wise Guy by Nicholas Pileggi? According to Henry Hill in that book Paul Castellano loved hitting the town on stolen credit cards and called them “muldoons”, so every time I see your name I think if you as a credit card theif. In a good way though. :stuck_out_tongue:

RancidYakButtTeaParty, who is actually RancidYakButterTeaParty.

That’s what I think, too! I still read it that way in my head. Like, she likes to dive in tubas or with tubas. I thought I was the only one…

I never had any problems interpreting Mangetout, but until recently I thought ChiefScott was ChefScott. Sorry, man!

Oh, and before CatInASuit changed his name, I would read it as Catina Suit. Which I suppose is why he changed it.

Well, this is my fault, of course. I could have been clever like other Dopers and thought up some amusing, witty username, but noooooo. I had to go with the username first assigned to me by my very first ISP in my email addy, which happened to be my first name and last initial; it never even occurred to me that people would have trouble parsing it until shortly after I registered and people started addressing me as “nori”, and I thought, yikes, they think I’m “nori-new”. Now at DopeFests, that’s how I introduce myself! :cool:

Well, duh. How else would you pronounce it?

First name is Mulva?

Hmm, since this story is far more interesting than the entirely lame explanation of my username, let’s go with that. Yup, my username is based on a powerful New York crime boss. Not anything geeky like a popular PC game from 8-9 years ago.

I wondered if my name would come to light. On a side note, one of my $tarbucks baristas sent me a friend request so she could check out my Thanksgiving pictures. The other day, while talking about what I am making for gifts for Christmas this year, she mentioned to another of the baristas “oh, yeh, she has a myspace page!” The other barista then asked for my name so he could look me up, and she was at a loss as to how to pronounce it. When I explained that it is “clitoris minus the ‘c’” she got the lightbulb-over-the-head look and said “oh my gawd, I never realised that!” :eek:

So is that clitoris pronounced: clit-OR-us or CLIT-er-iss?

I’ve always read Gorgon Heap as Gordon Heap.

Is McDribble still around?

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?

People get my name right but then they spell Gandhi’s name wrong. Sorry, Gandhi. Them’s the breaks.

There was an EvilGhandi here at one time (that spelling.)