# I Get Mixed up **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 22, 2001, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-mixed-up/94811 "2001-11-22T22:30:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Slip\_Mahoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Slip\_Mahoney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slip_Mahoney)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-mixed-up/94811/1 "2001-11-22T22:30:16Z")
A perfect example is **Ferrous** and **Fenris**. Your names are too similar, and sometimes it fucks me up. There are other instances of this nonsense, but I hate typing, so I won’t bother to list them. You know who you are. Knock it off. I have better things to do than rack my brain wondering, “Is he the one that posted that witty comment in GQ? Or was it her?” Come to some kind of agreement and change your names to end the confusion. Or am I the only one confused? Never mind. Just do it. ---
**Author:** ![jabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/db5fbb/32.png) [@jabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabe)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-mixed-up/94811/2 "2001-11-22T22:32:10Z")
I always confuse you with Slip Baloney…because you’re so full of it!!! 🙂 i should be a fucking comedian. peace, JB ---
**Author:** ![Slip\_Mahoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Slip\_Mahoney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slip_Mahoney)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-mixed-up/94811/3 "2001-11-22T22:38:59Z")
Slip Baloney? I love it! It’s so me! Thanx, **jabe.** That’ll be my name if I join a vegeterian message board. ---
**Author:** ![jabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/db5fbb/32.png) [@jabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabe)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-mixed-up/94811/4 "2001-11-22T22:40:22Z")
Thank you, thank you…I’ll be here all week JB ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-mixed-up/94811/5 "2001-11-22T23:04:25Z")
This is an example of how incredibly stupid I am. When I see the names **Frumious Bandersnatch** or **Fretful Porcupine** , I think it’s me. I actually say to myself, “I don’t remember posting in this thread…” until I take a second look at the name and realize oh, it’s _not_ me. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-mixed-up/94811/6 "2001-11-22T23:18:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FireUnderpantsBoobs \* > \*\***Fretful Porcupine[/b** Augh! I mean **Fretful Porpentine**. Sorry for the mix-up. ---
**Author:** ![Slip\_Mahoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Slip\_Mahoney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slip_Mahoney)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-mixed-up/94811/7 "2001-11-22T23:25:13Z")
And you screwed up the coding, too. I love ya anyway, **Fire.** ---
**Author:** ![Greyson3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/258eb7/32.png) [@Greyson3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greyson3)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-mixed-up/94811/8 "2001-11-23T00:03:11Z")
**Gaudere** and **Gadarene** **MEBuckner** and **MGibson** **Millosarian** and **Mullinator** **Fenris** , **Feynn** , and **Freyr** I don’t feel ashamed to admit I can’t always remember who’s who, especially those last three. The bad ones are the names that don’t sound or look at all similar and yet I can never stop confusing them. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-mixed-up/94811/9 "2001-11-23T04:07:08Z")
**elucidator** and **erislover**. One of the **Gads** (the tall, cute one that’s not a girl and not a mod) told me that I should look for the “u”. But now I don’t remember which one has the “u”. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-mixed-up/94811/10 "2001-11-23T04:19:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FireUnderpantsBoobs \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by FireUnderpantsBoobs \* > > \*\***Fretful Porcupine[/b** > > Augh! I mean **Fretful Porpentine**. Sorry for the mix-up. \*\* 'S all right, _everybody_ does it. For some unfathomable reason, I have trouble telling apart **Biffer Spice** and **Gary Kumquat** , and for fairly obvious reasons I keep getting **andros** and **astorian** mixed up. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-mixed-up/94811/11 "2001-11-23T04:31:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Greyson3 \* > **Gaudere** and **Gadarene** > > **MEBuckner** and **MGibson** > > **Millosarian** and **Mullinator** > > **Fenris** , **Feynn** , and **Freyr** > > I don’t feel ashamed to admit I can’t always remember who’s who, especially those last three. The bad ones are the names that don’t sound or look at all similar and yet I can never stop confusing them. [That’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=83650&postid=1553581#post1553581) [it!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=77898&postid=1443154#post1443154) **MGibson** –yer gonna have to change your name! (Hey, we’ve got that new [symbol font thing](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=90639), so you could even do like Prince did.) ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-mixed-up/94811/12 "2001-11-23T04:42:26Z")
That’s it… Freyr and Feynn… I mean Feynn and Fenris… those other two guys will have to change their names so **I** don’t get confused. I can see why people get confused as we’re all brilliant and articulate individuals. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-mixed-up/94811/13 "2001-11-23T10:44:38Z")
But what are you all going to change to? Are there enough distict names for everyone? Maybe if we like double up people in BBQ and MPS, or newbies and veterans, or have one in caps and one in lower case. Or assign people surnames. Say, I’m **Shade Fenris** and Fenris is **Fenris Fenris** and Feynn is **Feynn Fenris**. This isn’t helping, is it? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-mixed-up/94811/14 "2001-11-23T10:49:29Z")
People sometimes confuse me with **SPOOFE**. God alone knows why. ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-mixed-up/94811/15 "2001-11-23T10:49:31Z")
**MC, MEBuckner, MGibson** - sure there are others. **Elucidator and obfusacist** for some bizarre reason. **Feynn, Freyr** - all the time. I used to get **msmith** and **msrobyn** mixed up, but not any more. But there are documented reasons for that. Bet nobody gets me mixed up. **kabbes** is quite disctinctive for some reason. Those few of you that actually remember the name at all, that is. pan ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-mixed-up/94811/16 "2001-11-23T15:09:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fretful Porpentine \* > [BFor some unfathomable reason, I have trouble telling apart **Biffer Spice** and **Gary Kumquat** , and for fairly obvious reasons I keep getting **andros** and **astorian** mixed up. \*\* Cool. It was Biffer who introduced me to this place. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-mixed-up/94811/17 "2001-11-23T15:24:19Z")
There’s a **yojimboguy** knocking around. The first time I saw a post from him I thought to myself “WTF, I don’t remember posting that” ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-mixed-up/94811/18 "2001-11-23T17:47:48Z")
Right now I’m getting confused with these two: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=19101](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=19101) Candygram! [land shark] [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=19105](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=19105) Candygram! [land shark] Can you see my dilemma? ---
**Author:** ![Slip\_Mahoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Slip\_Mahoney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slip_Mahoney)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-mixed-up/94811/19 "2001-11-23T18:20:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \* > \*\*Right now I’m getting confused with these two: > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=19101](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=19101) > Candygram! [land shark] > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=19105](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=19105) > Candygram! [land shark] > > Can you see my dilemma? \*\* That’s really weird, Oncle Biere. I mean… Oh, never mind. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-mixed-up/94811/20 "2001-11-23T18:58:52Z")
Heh. The really weid thing is we have a poster who has called me OncleBiere since before we had a poster with that name. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=25570](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=25570) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=17802](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=17802) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-mixed-up/94811.md?page=2)