# Hypothetical: Who are you, again? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 27, 2017, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-who-are-you-again/783152 "2017-03-27T17:00:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-who-are-you-again/783152/1 "2017-03-27T17:00:50Z")
The word has come down From On High that all posters _must_ choose a new user name, and it can’t be a variation or respelling of their old name. What name would _you_ choose? I would be **A. Nonny Mouse**. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-who-are-you-again/783152/2 "2017-03-27T17:03:15Z")
Since I assume all and any names are open (since everyone has to change), I’d go with **Syntax Error** since I use that on some other forums. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-who-are-you-again/783152/3 "2017-03-27T17:04:59Z")
Rebo. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-who-are-you-again/783152/4 "2017-03-27T17:06:53Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > Rebo. > > 😃 Ummm…sounds like a variation of your old name, doncha think? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-who-are-you-again/783152/5 "2017-03-27T17:08:46Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Since I assume all and any names are open (since everyone has to change), I’d go with **Syntax Error** since I use that on some other forums. All names are open…except for ones already used on this board. No trading name I’m afraid. If you only used it on other boards, then o.k. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-who-are-you-again/783152/6 "2017-03-27T17:14:02Z")
Her Exalted Grand Niceness Because I’m nice, dammit. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-who-are-you-again/783152/7 "2017-03-27T17:23:05Z")
Charter Schmember. Regards, well, you know ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-who-are-you-again/783152/8 "2017-03-27T17:28:38Z")
BTW, when I said that you can’t use names of other posters, I meant just that…which means that if you can show that someone registered but never posted the name is up for grabs. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-who-are-you-again/783152/9 "2017-03-27T17:32:35Z")
I have a horrible affliction–a fondness for puns and wordplay and spoonerisms and such. So every time I see a post by a certain Doper, I think of “cunning roach.” So I’d go with that. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-who-are-you-again/783152/10 "2017-03-27T17:33:51Z")
“UpTheDownStaircase” ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-who-are-you-again/783152/11 "2017-03-27T17:38:55Z")
Call me New Jet. I’m a guitar player. When I joined, my first choice was Stratocaster, which was already taken, of course. I figured I like rattlesnakes, no one will want to be a rattlesnake on this board, so Crotalus was my second choice. A few years after I joined, I went to see a friend play at a bar with his band, and he had this Les Paul-looking thing that I had never seen, a Gretsch New Jet. I became intrigued by the guitar, did some research, found that they had only been made for a couple of years in the early oughts, that only about 800 had been built, and tracked one down and bought it. It’s a pro-quality guitar and I like the tone. I think what I most enjoy about it is that people who should know what it is, like vintage guitar dealers, have never heard of it. So I would pick New Jet. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-who-are-you-again/783152/12 "2017-03-27T17:46:47Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > Call me New Jet. O.K. if we call you “Ted”? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-who-are-you-again/783152/13 "2017-03-27T17:47:26Z")
I could go with the plain vanilla “Hutch” that I use elsewhere, or (more likely), I’d stick with the SF field with either Dominic Flandry or Kimball Kinnison. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-who-are-you-again/783152/14 "2017-03-27T17:57:33Z")
PaulaO cuz that’s my first name and last initial ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-who-are-you-again/783152/15 "2017-03-27T17:57:40Z")
Maybe I’ll be “ **Edit Window**.” ---
**Author:** ![bobtimusprime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/94ad74/32.png) [@bobtimusprime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobtimusprime)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-who-are-you-again/783152/16 "2017-03-27T17:57:59Z")
Martin Mertens ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-who-are-you-again/783152/17 "2017-03-27T18:01:18Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > O.K. if we call you “Ted”? 😉 It took me a minute. Please, not Ted New Jet! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-who-are-you-again/783152/18 "2017-03-27T18:08:22Z")
I’d stick with my Star Wars theme. Maybe Corellian Nerfherder. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-who-are-you-again/783152/19 "2017-03-27T18:12:35Z")
The real Donald Trump. :eek::smack: ---
**Author:** ![SantaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@SantaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SantaMan)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-who-are-you-again/783152/20 "2017-03-27T18:12:36Z")
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