# I Hate my username
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-my-username/301761
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [April 29, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-my-username/301761 "2005-04-29T18:54:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@davenportavenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davenportavenger)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2005, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-my-username/301761/21 "2005-04-30T02:01:36Z")
No, don’t change! You’re the only other poster with an intentionally (I think?) misspelled username!
I don’t like my name either, but someone stole the name I normally use on forums (and I know it was deliberate theft because it’s not a cultural reference and the only stuff that comes up when you Google it is stuff relating to me); they never used it either. I’ve been thinking about changing it to my normal username with a space between the two words, something I should have thought of when I first signed up and my name was taken, but I was so full of RAGE I wasn’t thinking clearly. Hmm…
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### Author:  [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2005, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-my-username/301761/22 "2005-04-30T02:03:08Z")
Get Back, Jojo!
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### Author:  [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2005, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-my-username/301761/23 "2005-04-30T03:36:56Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#):
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> Just be damned careful about what you pick for your new user name. They aren’t going to give you another shot at it.
Advice well worth repeating. I didn’t put enough thought into mine when I had it changed, and now I dislike it even more than I ever disliked **FireUnderpantsBoos**. Sighhhh… stupid username.
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### Author:  [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2005, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-my-username/301761/24 "2005-04-30T03:45:24Z")
Well, you shouldn’t!
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### Author:  [@Black\_Train\_Song](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Train_Song)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2005, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-my-username/301761/25 "2005-04-30T05:18:55Z")
So not only are some of us unsatisfied with our own stations in life but we’ve repeated the mistake in the virtual world. Fuck hope my silly friends!
Just joking. I could have a worse name to be stuck with. “The history of rust” doesn’t sound too engaging. Neither does Toast museum. What the fuck are you smoking **Mangetout**? Then again, ebay and all that.
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### Author:  [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2005, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-my-username/301761/26 "2005-04-30T10:39:28Z")
I have a strange hankering to be called **Pure Filth**.
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2005, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-my-username/301761/27 "2005-04-30T11:10:09Z")
> [@](#):
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> I have a strange hankering…
Be careful what you wish for… 😉
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This thread does not really meet the stndards of abusive behavior that we expect in the **Pit** , and it is asking a procedural question about the Board rather than discussing a policy, so I’m going to move it to **About This Message Board**.
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As others have noted, your reason to desire a name change does not need to rise to the level of entering the Witness Protection Program, we are simply discouraging “name of the month” username changes. Send an e-mail to an Administrator (we lowly Moderators do not handle such weighty issues), with a request to change your name, giving some thought to the new one so that you are not stuck with both a bad name and the stigma of choosing a bad name twice.
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### Author:  [@klintypooh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/klintypooh)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2005, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-my-username/301761/28 "2005-04-30T14:11:19Z")
**I Touch Myself.**
Would make an interesting name too.
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### Author:  [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2005, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-my-username/301761/29 "2005-04-30T19:08:37Z")
_rimshot_
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2005, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-my-username/301761/30 "2005-04-30T19:32:22Z")
Send me an email . . . from the same address you use for board stuff, as we need some verification that some wiseass doesn’t have control of your account . . . [TubaDiva@aol.com](mailto:TubaDiva@aol.com).
We’re actually pretty cool on changing user names, though we don’t want them changing like this year’s fashions. Pick a name, live with it, pretty much, though we’ll put up with a change or two if necessary.
You name is who you are, choose carefully.
Oh, and this is a function for members; if you’re a guest, you’re stuck with what you chose . . .sign up and we’ll change it.
Please remember that all names are subject to review by management.
We hope that in the future we’ll be able to offer unique user titles, so those of you who wish to have something less permanent and more fun can play with that. Also subject to review by management . . . and for a fee.
your humble TubaDiva
Use carefully your power of choice.
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### Author:  [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-my-username/301761/31 "2005-04-30T22:42:34Z")
How about **Poster Child**? Or **Imposter**? {Although the latter might raise suspicions of being an item of hosiery…}
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### Author:  [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2005, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-my-username/301761/32 "2005-04-30T23:57:11Z")
**cyborg platypus**!
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### Author:  [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2005, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-my-username/301761/33 "2005-05-01T00:17:54Z")
**Eucharistic Chicken Fat**! Oh wait…wasn’t there a band by that name back in the sixties?
Well, then,
\*\* Yellow Waxy Buildup\*\*
\*\* Eggplant Fetish\*\*
**Chicago Typewriter**
\*\* Aunt Edna’s Disease\*\*
**Righteous Disembowelment**
What? Those were \*\*all \*\* bands back in the sixties?
You’re on your own, kid.
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### Author:  [@milquetoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milquetoast)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-my-username/301761/34 "2005-05-01T02:07:48Z")
> [@Rooves](#):
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> …[n]either does Toast [M]useum. What the fuck are you smoking **Mangetout**?..
I don’t care what you are smoking, **Mangetout**. I always love your suggested user names. Keep it up!
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### Author:  [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2005, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-my-username/301761/35 "2005-05-01T02:31:32Z")
**It’s Just A Rash, Honey**
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### Author:  [@j\_sum1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j_sum1)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2005, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-my-username/301761/36 "2005-05-01T10:18:19Z")
> [@Rooves](#):
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> I just read in the FAQ that I’d have to have a pretty damned good reason if I wanted to change my username. Is the fact that i HATE it a good enough reason?
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> Yeah, I know I picked it out. Who do I email? I just paid my new subscription fee which means I’ll be sticking around for another year. Let me have a shiney new name! ☹
I like your username **Rooves**. I know who you are. And I still have your postcard. If you change it to something else I may never recognise you.
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### Author:  [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2005, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-my-username/301761/37 "2005-05-01T19:28:56Z")
Is **Atomic Badger Racing** still available? If I were going to change my username, that’s what I’d pick. Maybe.
😛
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### Author:  [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-my-username/301761/38 "2005-05-01T22:58:04Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#):
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> Is **Atomic Badger Racing** still available? If I were going to change my username, that’s what I’d pick. Maybe.
> 😛
[taken](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php)
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### Author:  [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2005, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-my-username/301761/39 "2005-05-02T01:28:16Z")
**Pontius Pirate**
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### Author:  [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2005, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-my-username/301761/40 "2005-05-02T02:11:42Z")
**Cloaca Maxima**
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