# I hereby propose an Amendment to the Board Rules

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hereby-propose-an-amendment-to-the-board-rules/273309>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 6, 2004, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hereby-propose-an-amendment-to-the-board-rules/273309 "2004-11-06T02:58:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hereby-propose-an-amendment-to-the-board-rules/273309/41 "2004-11-11T13:28:11Z")

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> [@Really Not All That Bright](#):
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> So I was reading the “What is Og?” thread and thinking about a thread I started a while back which was essentially the same…
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> … and it occurred to me that **Og** would be a _really_ cool user name, if I was switching, which apparently I’m not.

Well, you can comfort yourself with the thought that if your username was **Og** , you couldn’t do vanity searches.

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**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hereby-propose-an-amendment-to-the-board-rules/273309/42 "2004-11-11T15:21:39Z")

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not if you chose **Og Smite!**

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**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hereby-propose-an-amendment-to-the-board-rules/273309/43 "2004-11-11T15:26:05Z")

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> [@shijinn](#):
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> not if you chose **Og Smite!**

Shhhh! I’m tryin’ to make him feel better! 😛

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hereby-propose-an-amendment-to-the-board-rules/273309/44 "2004-11-11T16:20:11Z")

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> [@norinew](#):
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> Well, you can comfort yourself with the thought that if your username was **Og** , you couldn’t do vanity searches.

I can’t do them anyway… **Really, Not, All** and **That** always get removed from the search terms because they’re too common.

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**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hereby-propose-an-amendment-to-the-board-rules/273309/45 "2004-11-11T16:56:43Z")

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> [@shijinn](#):
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> but, the least you could do is _laina_ hand and offer your extra name change to him? HAW HAW HAW  
> :ducks:

See Post #5. I already offered RNATB the name I would change to if I hadn’t already changed my name once.  
However, I now withdraw that offer since if RNATB gets a second name change, I’m going to be whining for one too.

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