# I changed my user name. Because I wanna! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 24, 2002, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-changed-my-user-name-because-i-wanna/129487 "2002-09-24T18:30:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-changed-my-user-name-because-i-wanna/129487/1 "2002-09-24T18:30:07Z")
Hi, the former Canthearya here. I changed my user name. Why? Because I wanna! In case you’re curious… “Gazelle” because: 1. My name IRL means gazelle. 2. I’m a runner. 3. I think of my spirit animal being a gazelle - I’m not really into spirit animals, but when I’m running and getting tired, I imagine a gazelle and try to feel as easy about running as a gazelle would feel… “from Hell” because: 1. I went through a period when everything was “from Hell” and it makes me smile. 2. It rhymes. I’m happy - it fits. Canthearya never really did… ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-changed-my-user-name-because-i-wanna/129487/2 "2002-09-24T18:34:15Z")
Crap, now I need a new sig! ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-changed-my-user-name-because-i-wanna/129487/3 "2002-09-24T18:35:31Z")
**dantheman** , you’re hilarious! There you go, sweetie. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-changed-my-user-name-because-i-wanna/129487/4 "2002-09-24T18:42:33Z")
**dantheman** , you’re hilarious! There you go, sweetie. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-changed-my-user-name-because-i-wanna/129487/5 "2002-09-24T18:52:16Z")
Gadzooks! I’ve been sweetied! Ok, now that I can honestly change my sig… Cool name! But why specifically the second circle? Wish I had my Dante in front of me! ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-changed-my-user-name-because-i-wanna/129487/6 "2002-09-24T18:59:06Z")
I hate it when I double-post! **dantheman** , you like the name! Thanks! Second Circle. I figure I can change my location depending on my mood… Today I am with the lustful. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lao\_Tsu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lao\_Tsu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lao_Tsu)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-changed-my-user-name-because-i-wanna/129487/7 "2002-09-24T19:00:28Z")
I dig it. It’s an improvement. Keep it. 'Cause you wanna. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-changed-my-user-name-because-i-wanna/129487/8 "2002-09-24T19:00:29Z")
Zoinks! And she’s married! Homina homina homina homina hominy grits ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-changed-my-user-name-because-i-wanna/129487/9 "2002-09-24T19:05:18Z")
“hominy grits” - Buahahahahaha! **dan** and **Lao** , y’all made my day. Thanks for your support! ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-changed-my-user-name-because-i-wanna/129487/10 "2002-09-24T19:08:42Z")
You still look great in that skirt. I don’t care what your name is. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-changed-my-user-name-because-i-wanna/129487/11 "2002-09-24T19:09:49Z")
Thanks for letting us know because we’d have worried otherwise. Wasn’t “Canthearya” voted the most misunderstood username? Admittedly, It might be better if I associate you with a member of the antelope family than with a capybara. [Previous association… sorry!](http://www.rebsig.com/capybara/) ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-changed-my-user-name-because-i-wanna/129487/12 "2002-09-24T19:14:57Z")
Yep, **lieu** , it was “Most Confusing Username” 2000, I think. Yet another reason to get rid of it. Ha! No offense to **Opal** , of course. It was fun having that in my sig for a while. I just prefer not to confuse people, knowhuttamean? As for the capybara, what the heck are you talking about? Do you mean that you associated Canthearya with capybara? 'cause if that cute little guy is in the antelope family, I’ll be ding-dang-durned. ::so confused:: ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-changed-my-user-name-because-i-wanna/129487/13 "2002-09-24T19:26:50Z")
Nonononoooo… sleek Gazelle being in the antelope family - good. Canthearya rhyming with capybara… the world’s largest rodent - bad. Methinks Gazelle from Hell is bitchin’! ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-changed-my-user-name-because-i-wanna/129487/14 "2002-09-24T19:39:28Z")
Okay **lieu** baby. I gotcha now. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-changed-my-user-name-because-i-wanna/129487/15 "2002-09-24T19:56:40Z")
You know, I feel slightly goofy to admit that I just now got your LAST username. I’d been reading it as **Can The Arya** and wondering what an arya was. Perhaps you were an opera hater with poor spelling. Perhaps you were infavor of fencing in the geographical home of the proto-Nazis. And now, just as I figure it out, you change it. Sheesh. For a whlie I’ll probably see it as **Gazette from Hell** and think you hate your job at the newspaper. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-changed-my-user-name-because-i-wanna/129487/16 "2002-09-24T20:04:57Z")
Ooof. Me too **jackelope**! **Can’t hear ya** … not **Can The Are Ya?** I should still be watching cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-changed-my-user-name-because-i-wanna/129487/17 "2002-09-24T20:15:49Z")
Oh my GOD you two. Can I say “whoosh” now? FYI, I chose the old name because I used to frequent a chat room with more trolls than their quota and it was a great way to get them to leave me alone. They’d start bugging me and I’d just say, “What?” over and over. Also, the chat room did not allow punctuation, hence the missing apostrophe. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-changed-my-user-name-because-i-wanna/129487/18 "2002-09-24T20:18:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > **Canthearya rhyming with capybara… the world’s largest rodent - bad.** “The capybara is the world’s largest rodent, a four-foot-long, hundred-pound member of the guinea pig family. Notice, however, that no one ever claims he is being ‘used as a capybara.’” - P. J. O’Rourke ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-changed-my-user-name-because-i-wanna/129487/19 "2002-09-24T21:58:30Z")
Now, the Most Confusing (or Misunderstood) User Name is… **Sue Duhnym**. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-changed-my-user-name-because-i-wanna/129487/20 "2002-09-24T21:59:18Z")
Pleasedtomeecha Ms. **Gazelle from Hell**. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-changed-my-user-name-because-i-wanna/129487.md?page=2)