# I misspelled "BingoBurringo". **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 19, 2001, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-misspelled-bingoburringo/82643 "2001-09-19T18:38:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-misspelled-bingoburringo/82643/1 "2001-09-19T18:38:04Z")
I spelled it in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1623654#post1623654) as **BingoBurrito** because I thought that was his/her name; I had mis-read it. Now, I don’t think that excuses his/her response, but I just wanted to make it clear that I wasn’t trying to insult him/her by deliberately misspelling his/her name. I started this new thread because that other one was closed before I had a chance to explain myself. (Hell, I was asleep when it was closed.) Now, if I had been available to apologize, and if he had accepted, would **BingoBurringo** have been banned? ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-misspelled-bingoburringo/82643/2 "2001-09-19T18:52:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jab1 \* > \*\* Now, if I had been available to apologize, and if he had accepted, would **BingoBurringo** have been banned? \*\* One can never be 100% certain, of course, but yeah, probably. He had been warned before by a moderator by his behavior. So this comes as no surprise to him; he knew he was on thin ice, and he still decided to jump up and down. He was a jerk. Now he can go be a jerk on some other message board. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-misspelled-bingoburringo/82643/3 "2001-09-19T18:55:17Z")
I’ve nearly done the same thing several times with Bingo. But can you really take someone serious who likes Temple of Doom more than Last Crusade? ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-misspelled-bingoburringo/82643/4 "2001-09-19T19:04:52Z")
Did he like it more than Raiders? _That_ would be unforgivable. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-misspelled-bingoburringo/82643/5 "2001-09-19T19:39:01Z")
Don’t sweat it–at the time that I read his reply to your post, _I_ was thinking his ID was BingoBurrito and couldn’t figure out what he was complaining about for a few seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-misspelled-bingoburringo/82643/6 "2001-09-20T10:22:01Z")
Well **jab1** , I explained in an impatient way what you did, and he called me a pathetic shill. I guess that means we have banned all burritos from the board. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-misspelled-bingoburringo/82643/7 "2001-09-20T14:46:07Z")
Incorrect, Barbarian! He didn’t call you A pathetic shill, he just plain called you Pathetic Shill. It was quite possibly the lamest dig I’ve ever seen. However, I think we’re now bashing the poor boy, which is getting closer and closer to Pit material. Sorry, mods. ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-misspelled-bingoburringo/82643/8 "2001-09-20T19:11:16Z")
I thought his name was burrito too! It was an honest mistake. It certainly didn’t deserve the comeback that it recieved. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-misspelled-bingoburringo/82643/9 "2001-09-21T07:56:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Munch \* > \*\* But can you really take someone serious who likes Temple of Doom more than Last Crusade? \*\* I resent that! (See my post in the “Why was ToD so bad?” thread. And, FWIW, I thought it was Burrito too, I also didn’t know what he was bitching about until I looked at his name closely. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-misspelled-bingoburringo/82643/10 "2001-09-21T09:47:37Z")
You know, I rarely harp on someone being banned (unless they had the username **fatherjohn** ) but I think it would only be poetic justice if he’s reading this thread, realizes that Jab’s comment was an innocent mistake, and smacks his forehead… That moment of dawning realization is what I live for. ---
**Author:** ![Sea\_Sorbust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Sea\_Sorbust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sea_Sorbust)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-misspelled-bingoburringo/82643/11 "2001-09-21T20:33:47Z")
Many thanks, **jab1**. The Board’s been really busy and I’ve passed the “Why no gore” many, many times, feeling guilty each and every time. I always thought that the thread was about “Where is Al Gore in all this mess?” or maybe “Why don’t we have Al Bore as President rather than Buss II?” or even “Isn’t this the time for all good politicians to be seen and heard? So where’s Al Gore?”. Thanks to your link (–I am a compulsive clicker–) I know know what the thread REALLY was about. **Yeuch! Yuook!!** (I post from the library and have cumpulsively clicked some teenager’s residual address to [rotten.com](http://rotten.com). Yeuch! How could you, **SPOOFE** , suggest ANYONE go to to such a site? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-misspelled-bingoburringo/82643/12 "2001-09-21T21:39:59Z")
I liked that thread **Jab1** but only because I got this: > [@](#): > > Mangetout wins the “Psychic Prediction of the Day” award. I’m locking this up. > > * * * > > David B, SDMB Great Debates Moderator