# I have to change my screenname - suggestions? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 9, 2001, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-change-my-screenname-suggestions/71765 "2001-07-09T01:54:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![uglybeech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/82dd89/32.png) [@uglybeech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglybeech)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-change-my-screenname-suggestions/71765/1 "2001-07-09T01:54:27Z")
I just got this message: > [@](#): > > We find the screen name “uglybtch” to be objectionable and ask that you > change it. > > Please give me one or two other suggestions and we’ll see if we can’t find > one that suits better. > > Thanking you in advance for your cooperation – > > your humble TubaDiva > Administrator > The Straight Dope I didn’t realize I was dealing with such delicate sensibilities here, but there it is. So, suggestions anybody? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-change-my-screenname-suggestions/71765/2 "2001-07-09T02:02:38Z")
I always liked “Cognitive Dissidents”. You may want to ask the mods to put this in IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![uglybeech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/82dd89/32.png) [@uglybeech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglybeech)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-change-my-screenname-suggestions/71765/3 "2001-07-09T02:06:22Z")
You think if I elide not just the “i” but the “t” it would cease to be objectionable? uglybch I can’t seem to find a euphonic synonym for btch… ---
**Author:** ![Sultan\_Kinkari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-change-my-screenname-suggestions/71765/4 "2001-07-09T02:08:19Z")
I don’t see anything wrong with your name **uglybtch**. But here are some suggestions. HarDoff HellonFiya ColdasIce RealTrubble CheepShot DirTslut onfire sellout craKbaby worthless ballerinut SoulSista ShameOnMe ImTrouble CrackerJack FtheHoff Smokin SOCKS wingless 1976BADD ---
**Author:** ![uglybeech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/82dd89/32.png) [@uglybeech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglybeech)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-change-my-screenname-suggestions/71765/5 "2001-07-09T02:09:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Qadgop the Mercotan \* > I always liked “Cognitive Dissidents”. hmmm…not quite the feel i’m looking for, but not bad. > [@](#): > > You may want to ask the mods to put this in IMHO. Oh, yeah you’re right. I’m still trying to figure out what goes where on things like this. ---
**Author:** ![JCThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@JCThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JCThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-change-my-screenname-suggestions/71765/6 "2001-07-09T02:15:03Z")
I think they would still see what you were getting at & thus still find it objectionable. I, myself, find it both acceptable & pleasing. However, spelling it backwards, like Oprah’s clever ‘HARPO’ Studios, also keeps it legal… ``` hctib ylgu ``` … kinda like that. ---
**Author:** ![JCThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@JCThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JCThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-change-my-screenname-suggestions/71765/7 "2001-07-09T02:19:34Z")
He’s right 1976BADD… where did you get these names? ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-change-my-screenname-suggestions/71765/8 "2001-07-09T02:27:43Z")
It’s the obscenity “bitch” that the Administration objects to. No matter how you spell it, it’s still going to be a “bitch”. Pick something totally different, is my advice. Got any interests? Hobbies? Silly family nicknames? The point of having a nifty user name is so you can develop a MB personality. It helps us get to know you. It tells us “where you’re at”. IMO spelling it backwards, like many other total gibberish user names, is counter-productive because it doesn’t give the rest of us any kind of mental image, no peg on which to hang our perception of your personality. Even if it’s an odd name, like Duck Duck Goose or Qadgop the Mercotan 😃 , still it’s plain English, and is easier to deal with, to personify (is that the word I want? Like “anthropomorphize” but I can’t quite think of the word) than a string of random letters. Do you really want to be known as the Ugly Bitch? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![uglybeech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/82dd89/32.png) [@uglybeech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglybeech)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-change-my-screenname-suggestions/71765/9 "2001-07-09T02:36:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duck Duck Goose \* > \*\* > > Do you really want to be known as the Ugly Bitch? ;)\*\* > > Do you really want to be known as Duck Duck Goose? 😉 > > \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-change-my-screenname-suggestions/71765/10 "2001-07-09T03:41:37Z")
“Chicken of Bristol” is STILL unclaimed as a screen name – maybe you could take it. I think **evilbeth** would be quite joyous. ---
**Author:** ![mblackwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-change-my-screenname-suggestions/71765/11 "2001-07-09T04:46:52Z")
Malodorous Wench. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![girlwithwings](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@girlwithwings](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/girlwithwings)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-change-my-screenname-suggestions/71765/12 "2001-07-09T05:29:42Z")
When i couldn’t get Pixie (taken), i went the dictionary route and got **girlwithwings**. Using the same method… how about **HideouslyLewdWoman**? not quite the same ring as **uglybtch** … ah, well 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-change-my-screenname-suggestions/71765/13 "2001-07-09T05:39:32Z")
Bugly Itch ---
**Author:** ![Protesilaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-change-my-screenname-suggestions/71765/14 "2001-07-09T05:53:08Z")
After seeing [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=77181), I believe I’ll suggest **Pessimist**. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2001, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-change-my-screenname-suggestions/71765/15 "2001-07-09T06:04:25Z")
A phrase I just picked up from another thread: **Undulating Tramp** ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-change-my-screenname-suggestions/71765/16 "2001-07-09T08:08:40Z")
How about a poll seeing if people find it offensive? This is a community, n’est-ce-pas? So let’s find out what the community standards really are about your username. ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-change-my-screenname-suggestions/71765/17 "2001-07-09T11:52:13Z")
Anti-Helen. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2001, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-change-my-screenname-suggestions/71765/18 "2001-07-09T11:56:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Barbarian \* > \*\*How about a poll seeing if people find it offensive? > > This is a community, n’est-ce-pas? So let’s find out what the community standards really are about your username. \*\* Sure, it’s a community. But it’s no democracy. I can’t for the life of me see what’s so horrible about “btch”. I think some people are just a teeny weeny oversensitive about such trivial matters as an online screen name. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-change-my-screenname-suggestions/71765/19 "2001-07-09T12:05:57Z")
**TrampSlutHo** 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-change-my-screenname-suggestions/71765/20 "2001-07-09T12:15:17Z")
I vote for Undulating Tramp as well. Its got flavor and starts with a u. how much cooler are you going to get? And on the community bit, if a mod or an admin says offically that its unacceptable, its unacceptable. It’s their house, their rules. Personally, “ugly bitch” is not someone I would really talk to. Again its an image thing. I have enough problmes with my own poor self image to really want to get close to someone who has defined themselves as their low self esteem. Welcome to the boards. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-change-my-screenname-suggestions/71765.md?page=2)