# 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
**Page:** 6
### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/101 "2012-07-09T23:12:21Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#):
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> Hey, now.
Dude. Just lay low or you’re outa here.
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### Author:  [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/102 "2012-07-09T23:15:50Z")
> [@even\_sven](#):
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> Even Sven was a viking who hated the French…
Aha, so this is about the French, and the OP of this thread happens to be in Paris.
Sacrebleu! The web gets more tangled with each new turn of events.
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### Author:  [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/103 "2012-07-09T23:17:03Z")
> [@Zebra](#):
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> I say we make them fight in THUNDER DOME!
50 quatloos on the newcomer.
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### Author:  [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/104 "2012-07-09T23:34:19Z")
> [@Crazyhorse](#):
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> Even if even sven was a riff on even steven, that doesn’t even mean that even seven even considered even steven first. They may even have based their name on even sven with no prior knowledge of even steven. However, even sven may not even have intended to riff on even steven and they may even have meant ‘even’ in the sense of including, perhaps unexpectedly, as opposed to ‘even’ as in winding up with the same amount of something when all transactions are complete. Even ‘even’ is subject to interpretation before we even consider sven, seven, or steven.
:rolleyes: Please. I addressed this. In the context I was speaking to, it’s not relevant what either of them “meant” by the name.
Someone who reads the poster name **Okie Dopey** is going to think of the expression “okey-dokey,” probably Okies/Oklahoma, possibly Snow White, and–here–the Straight Dope. Even if it’s some kind of private childhood nickname that has nothing to do with any of those, they have no grounds for complaining about **OK Donkey** , who may have meant his name to portray him as an affable pack animal, or **Okeh Dorky** , who is amusingly devoted to vintage blues records. All of them will be read as riffs on an idiomatic English expression, and all of them should have known that.
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### Author:  [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/105 "2012-07-09T23:40:54Z")
Who the _fuck_ is Ren Stevens? :mad:
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### Author:  [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/106 "2012-07-09T23:50:21Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#):
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> :rolleyes: Please. I addressed this. In the context I was speaking to, it’s not relevant what either of them “meant” by the name.
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> Someone who reads the poster name **Okie Dopey** is going to think of the expression “okey-dokey,” probably Okies/Oklahoma, possibly Snow White, and–here–the Straight Dope. Even if it’s some kind of private childhood nickname that has nothing to do with any of those, they have no grounds for complaining about **OK Donkey** , who may have meant his name to portray him as an affable pack animal, or **Okeh Dorky** , who is amusingly devoted to vintage blues records. All of them will be read as riffs on an idiomatic English expression, and all of them should have known that.
Yeah, but as we all know most posters here are socially clueless people with above average intelligence who only watch PBS and have Aspbergers Syndrome.
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### Author:  [@Mewl\_Dear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mewl_Dear)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/107 "2012-07-09T23:51:06Z")
You people amaze me with the shit you will argue about.
If the guy is stalking sven, ban it. If not, grow up.
Two e’s in my name.
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### Author:  [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/108 "2012-07-09T23:57:33Z")
You could change your name to Buzzkill.
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/109 "2012-07-10T00:00:14Z")
This takes me back to the day when **Mean Mr. Pus-tard** latched his oxen onto the SMDB yoke.
mmm
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2012, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/110 "2012-07-10T00:12:55Z")
> [@tapu](#):
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> Who the _fuck_ is Ren Stevens? :mad:
[A character on the Disney Channel series “Even Stevens.”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christy_Carlson_Romano)
And also **Inner Stickler’s** idol, apparently.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2012, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/111 "2012-07-10T00:14:20Z")
> [@tapu](#):
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> You could change your name to Buzzkill.
My first wife’s user name. IRL.:eek:
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### Author:  [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/112 "2012-07-10T00:24:36Z")
That’s odd.
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### Author:  [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2012, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/113 "2012-07-10T00:44:25Z")
> [@Marley23](#):
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> And we’ll be all “not Even!”
Wasn’t that the name of the mouse in _A Visit From St. Nicholas_?
Twas the night before Christmas,
When all thru the house,
Not a creature was stirring
'Cept Not-Even, a mouse…
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### Author:  [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/114 "2012-07-10T00:50:47Z")
> [@billfish678](#):
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> Personally I’m going with elbowls. Maybe we could team up and start a 21st century online Vaudville act.
That will be confused with my new name, **ebowels**.
But if Hollywood can survive [David Keith](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001418/) and[Keith David](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0202966/), we can endure similar user names.
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### Author:  [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2012, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/115 "2012-07-10T01:01:00Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#):
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> That will be confused with my new name, **ebowels**.
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> But if Hollywood can survive [David Keith](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001418/) and[Keith David](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0202966/), we can endure similar user names.
And **lno** ’s classic thread about [Jerry Lewis and Jerry Lee Lewis](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=62082):
> [@](#):
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> And finally, to Jerry Lewis, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
> You two both deserve to rot in the umpteeth circle of hell. Not because you directly affected my life in any way, but because for the love of God I lived twenty-four years without knowing you were two separate people. I went through life thinking that “Goodness gracious great balls of HEY LAAAAAAADY!” came from the same person. I thought that the performer whom the French strangely love was the same performer who married his underage cousin in Kentucky. You have no RIGHT to do this to me. You have no IDEA how aghast I was when this was explained to me. No, this was not explained to me in the privacy of my own home. No, this was not explained to me in the company of a few close friends, who would snicker momentarily and then forget about this. No, this was not even explained to me while giving a presentation to a board of directors. YOU TWO KEPT UP THIS CHARADE UNTIL MY GIRLFRIEND WONDERED WHAT THE HELL I WAS TALKING ABOUT. She’ll never let me forget about this. She now has the nuclear weapon of relationships. She can merely whisper “Jerry Lewis!” into my ear and I’ll curl into a mortified fetal position. She can win any argument, no matter how many cites I provide, or how many links to authoritative sources.
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> Jerry Lewis, you go to hell. Jerry Lee Lewis, you lead the way.
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### Author:  [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2012, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/116 "2012-07-10T01:42:03Z")
I have to quit reading this thread. It’s killin’ me.
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### Author:  [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/117 "2012-07-10T02:23:50Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#):
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> And tell me you don’t think this phrase originated with Ren Stevens.
Yeah, that’s exactly what I thought considering I don’t think anyone said the phrase once on the show.
And Bob, she was a main character on a popular kids show who was a neurotic A-student with an annoying younger sibling at a time when I was a neurotic A-student with an annoying younger sibling. What can I say, her character resonated with me.
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### Author:  [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2012, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/118 "2012-07-10T02:28:50Z")
It’s not like Angel2012 vs Angel 2000. They are both names that people could have just signed up with coincidentally. Advising one of them to change their name would be good for clarity, but seriously, acting as if Even Sven and Even Seven is the same thing?
I’ve seen posts that indicate that the person hasn’t realised Even Seven was a play on a current username even they posted in similar subjects. Mimicking a regular user’s name is troll 101.
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### Author:  [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2012, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/119 "2012-07-10T06:28:48Z")
> [@Mewl\_Dear](#):
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> You people amaze me with the shit you will argue about.
Just wait until you get to the rat poison thread.
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### Author:  [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2012, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-sven-even-seven/627661/120 "2012-07-10T12:03:06Z")
> [@even\_sven](#):
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> Even Sven was a viking who hated the French, .
All things considered I suggest banning \*\*Even Sven \*\*instead of having **Even Seven** change his his board name.
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