# Even sven/ Even seven
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [July 9, 2012, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661 "2012-07-09T02:47:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/61 "2012-07-09T16:14:50Z")
Both of those sound terrible, unless, what’s the molarity of the acid?
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### Author:  [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/62 "2012-07-09T16:16:46Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#):
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> Both of those sound terrible, unless, what’s the molarity of the acid?
I realize you’re only fifteen years old, but some of us geezers wouldn’t mind immortality.
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### Author:  [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/63 "2012-07-09T16:19:37Z")
Really? Are you sure it’s immortality you long for and not simply a ridiculous amount of longevity? Because I’m pretty capable of amusing myself but I suspect that after the 10th millenium, even I will run out of things to do. We can’t count on Netflix to be around forever, you know.
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### Author:  [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/64 "2012-07-09T16:21:49Z")
I think it says that it gives "immorality. " This wouldn’t happen if you could take the time to wipe the baby blood off your fingers before handling the damned vials.
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### Author:  [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/65 "2012-07-09T16:31:39Z")
Heh, heh. Dunno if you planned that or not but well done.
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### Author:  [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/66 "2012-07-09T16:32:36Z")
> [@Scumpup](#):
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> I think it says that it gives "immorality. " This wouldn’t happen if you could take the time to wipe the baby blood off your fingers before handling the damned vials.
Rhymers do not harm babies. That’s puppy blood.
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### Author:  [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/67 "2012-07-09T16:42:20Z")
> [@elbows](#):
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> What do y’all do, in real life, when a second Joey comes into your life? Make them change their name? Or, y’know, get used to it?
Well in real life it’s not a problem because we can make a visual distinction by looking at their face.
If there was only some way for the software here to allow for a virtual ‘face’ for posters this name issue would probably never come up.
😉
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### Author:  [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/68 "2012-07-09T18:17:10Z")
> [@Babale](#):
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> I think we should ban them both. It’s the only way to be sure.
Don’t mince about. Ban anyone whose name begins with “E.”
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/69 "2012-07-09T18:22:36Z")
I’ve always been suspicious of that **Ed Zotti** guy. What’s his angle? And that **Ellen Cherry** is much too nice to be trusted.
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### Author:  [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/70 "2012-07-09T18:24:44Z")
> [@tapu](#):
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> Don’t mince about. Ban anyone whose name begins with “E.”
That’s not safe enough. Anyone with an “e” in their name should be banned. Just to be extra safe.
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### Author:  [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/71 "2012-07-09T18:27:30Z")
And anyone whose name starts with the same letter as anyone else’s name. I’m starting to breathe easier.
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### Author:  [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/72 "2012-07-09T18:36:06Z")
For the first time since I was named, I am very happy that my folks moved to Earth.
Gagundathar is a very common name back home.
I would truly hate it if somebody showed up here named Gagoondathar.
You may laugh but it happened in grade school on the voyage here.
I was very glad that the other person wasn’t coming here to live.
That was especially true since the other person was a female. Talk about confusion.
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### Author:  [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/73 "2012-07-09T18:56:40Z")
You’re right–that can be a problem. I have a first and a second cousin, both named Dick. We are constantly having to say, “Big Dick or Little Dick?” Little Dick hates it.
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/74 "2012-07-09T19:22:41Z")
> [@elbows](#):
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> Really? We’re going to force a new member to change their name, because it’s close to another? What has happened to our community?
I’d have to say that you are very unacquainted with what this community believes. This has been the case forever. For one thing, it’s an obvious trolling technique to make your name look like someone else’s. And, yes, in real life, when you have two people with the same name, you start calling one or both of them by another name, by a nickname. If you have both a Robert Kelley and Robert Kelly in the same room, you will likely call one of them Bob. And why? Because, otherwise, people will get confused.
This is not some horrible occurrence that justifies starting that weird libertarian streak that seems to randomly strike otherwise non-libertarian posters.
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/75 "2012-07-09T19:24:22Z")
I find it entirely plausible that two people came up with these two similar names. “Even Steven” is a very common phrase and it’s not that odd that two people would come up with a play on that phrase.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/76 "2012-07-09T19:35:57Z")
> [@elbows](#):
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> Really? We’re going to force a new member to change their name, because it’s close to another? What has happened to our community?
Nothing has happened to the community. This kind of thing comes up once in a while. Usually it’s handled quickly behind the scenes, and this time we have a thread about it instead. I appreciate that **even sven** doesn’t mind the similar name and I didn’t think she would, but it’s more about the possibility that people will get confused than about the idea that someone is infringing on **even sven** ’s made-up SDMB name. You could probably argue that we have not always stepped in to prevent these kinds of similar names in the past, but this isn’t some kind of new trend.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/77 "2012-07-09T19:40:08Z")
Might i suggest a name that would show people that it was not **even sven** posting?
**not even sven**.
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### Author:  [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/78 "2012-07-09T19:57:25Z")
Sorry, I misread that as Not Even Seven.
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### Author:  [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/79 "2012-07-09T19:58:45Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#):
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> I find it entirely plausible that two people came up with these two similar names. “Even Steven” is a very common phrase and it’s not that odd that two people would come up with a play on that phrase.
Voice of Reason
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### Author:  [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/80 "2012-07-09T20:01:22Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> Might i suggest a name that would show people that it was not **even sven** posting?
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> **not even sven**.
Poor Sven. Always getting left out.
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