# FYI: changing usernames to insult people in the Pit **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 7, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-changing-usernames-to-insult-people-in-the-pit/338910 "2006-01-07T18:22:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-changing-usernames-to-insult-people-in-the-pit/338910/41 "2006-01-23T06:21:20Z")
OK, I think this has been up long enough for most everyone to see it. I’m going to unstick it and let it sink down into the muck. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-changing-usernames-to-insult-people-in-the-pit/338910/42 "2006-01-23T06:30:16Z")
> [@DarrenS](#): > > Maybe we should see what **banhattan** thinks about this. He _was_ the fucking hall monitor. I don’t think he’s around anymore, however. Darleth No, my username really doesn’t lend itself to anything. Yes, that was a challenge. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-changing-usernames-to-insult-people-in-the-pit/338910/43 "2006-01-23T07:07:55Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > Darleth > No, my username really doesn’t lend itself to anything. > Yes, that was a challenge. How about **Derleth this post**? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-changing-usernames-to-insult-people-in-the-pit/338910/44 "2006-01-23T07:22:13Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > How about **Derleth this post**? I don’t get it. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-changing-usernames-to-insult-people-in-the-pit/338910/45 "2006-01-23T08:07:16Z")
I could never resist a challenge. **Derleth** thaid about that the better. Never **Derleth**. **Derleth** time I saw Paris. ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-changing-usernames-to-insult-people-in-the-pit/338910/46 "2006-01-23T08:11:55Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > I could never resist a challenge. > > **Derleth** thaid about that the better. > > Never **Derleth**. > > **Derleth** time I saw Paris. 😃 I’ll have **Derleth** ’s walz with you. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-changing-usernames-to-insult-people-in-the-pit/338910/47 "2006-01-23T08:24:51Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > I seem to remember it being a problem with since-banned Aldebaran as well, where some people were calling him “Deb” much to his ire. **Thom** was also irked about this, more so since his uxorial partner answers to the name of Debb. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-changing-usernames-to-insult-people-in-the-pit/338910/48 "2006-01-23T08:27:45Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > I could never resist a challenge. You came here after doing a vanity search for your old name **Aldebaran**. Gotcherya! ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-changing-usernames-to-insult-people-in-the-pit/338910/49 "2006-01-23T08:34:56Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > How about **Derleth this post**? All **Good Egg** ’s have already been **Derleth** ed, including one in this thread. You are I take it, thir, a citithen, of Derluth, Minnethota? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-changing-usernames-to-insult-people-in-the-pit/338910/50 "2006-01-23T08:36:37Z")
Heh. Good puns, **aldiboronti**. “Derleth thaid about that the better.” indeed. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-changing-usernames-to-insult-people-in-the-pit/338910/51 "2006-01-23T11:16:12Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > Gotcherya! Spelled this wrong, you **Ill Wildebeast.** ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-changing-usernames-to-insult-people-in-the-pit/338910/52 "2006-01-23T11:22:08Z")
> [@Walter Windchill](#): > > Ooh… you’re a bad egg. Wow, prescient. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fyi-changing-usernames-to-insult-people-in-the-pit/338910.md?page=2)