# I'm sick of Doper names that I read wrong! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 30, 2004, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279 "2004-11-30T04:06:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/41 "2004-11-30T18:03:28Z")
For some reason several posters like to put a “g” in my user name. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/42 "2004-11-30T18:06:00Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > I’ve finally figured out that the best way for me to handle **Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor** is to simply think of him/her as “Bosda.” As in “Who’s da Bos?” ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/43 "2004-11-30T18:06:15Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > For some reason several posters like to put a “g” in my user name. **igvylass**? That’s just dumb. 😃 Yeah, yeah… ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/44 "2004-11-30T18:12:09Z")
There’s an ‘e’ in **TVblen**? Whoops… For some reason, people tend to add an ‘e’ to the end of my name, which is mildy annoying but at least the same name. I hate places where I can’t use an underscore or space in my name, because I often get referred to as ‘jay’, which is not only wrong, but a boys name as well. Doesn’t matter if I had it capitalised, they always miss the first N (or add the aforementioned ‘e’. Geesh, how hard is it to spell a name right that’s written right in front of you?). It still takes me a minute to remember, ‘i am pun ha’ as opposed to ‘i am punha.’ ---
**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:** [November 30, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/45 "2004-11-30T18:13:00Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > As in “Who’s da Bos?” Harumph! ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/46 "2004-11-30T18:18:23Z")
**Lobster** ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/47 "2004-11-30T18:23:12Z")
For some reason, I keep thinking of **Dionysus** when I see **Diogenes The Cynic** ’s name. Also, **Sampiro** ’s name is not Sam Piro. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/48 "2004-11-30T19:07:42Z")
> [@Jayn\_Newell](#): > > It still takes me a minute to remember, ‘i am pun ha’ as opposed to ‘i am punha.’ I used to see it as “i am puhna,” which, in my mind, became “I am puma” (hear me roar . . .). :smack: ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/49 "2004-11-30T19:29:15Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > It could be worse. They could call you **mothbreather** … Heh. ::cue a sneeze from me, with bug legs spraying everywhere:: ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/50 "2004-11-30T19:36:29Z")
> [@](#): > > **I’m sick of Doper names that I read wrong!** Me too, **Miss Norma**. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/51 "2004-11-30T20:03:13Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Me too, **Miss Norma**. Yup, misreadings are a real pain in the ass **ColonPhone**. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/52 "2004-11-30T20:12:50Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > Yup, misreadings are a real pain in the ass **ColonPhone**. 😉 Well so are yours **Squirt**! So There! 😛 It’s that **Bosco Who Skies In His Drawers** name that always gets to me. ---
**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:** [November 30, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/53 "2004-11-30T20:37:00Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Well so are yours **Squirt**! So There! 😛 > > It’s that **Bosco Who Skies In His Drawers** name that always gets to me. Aheh. > [@](#): > > Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. > > ```auto > > ``` Just call me semi-Conan. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/54 "2004-11-30T20:49:43Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > Just call me semi-Conan. As opposed to Semi-ramis. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/55 "2004-11-30T20:49:59Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Well so are yours **Squirt**! So There! 😛 > > It’s that **Bosco Who Skies In His Drawers** name that always gets to me. Wouldn’t **swampbeer** be closer to the truth? 😉 Or do I have you mixed up with some other burly cute poster? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/56 "2004-11-30T20:52:53Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > Wouldn’t **swampbeer** be closer to the truth? 😉 Or do I have you mixed up with some other burly cute poster? Cap’n! There’s a flirt thread off the starboard bow! It’s comin’ right for us! ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/57 "2004-11-30T20:56:04Z")
[QUOTE=Misnomer] I [li] **Saramamalana** ’s name has quite a nice ring to it when pronounced correctly, but every single time I see it I think “saramalama . . . ding dong.”[/li][/QUOTE] Before I met **saramamalana** (and before she explained the meaning of her username), I read it in my head as **sarma larma marma larma marma…** Repeat forever. Like the idiot that I am, I thought it had some Hindi significance or something. Heh. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/58 "2004-11-30T21:06:19Z")
It’s not just names but thread titles too. Right now I’m reading about _Why **Eve** Hates The Holiday Semen_. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/59 "2004-11-30T21:12:02Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > It’s not just names but thread titles too. Right now I’m reading about _Why **Eve** Hates The Holiday Semen_. Oh, that’s what she calls Egg Nog, too? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/60 "2004-11-30T21:59:16Z")
> [@Governor Quinn](#): > > Also, **Sampiro** ’s name is not Sam Piro. It isn’t? :smack: I thought he was an illiterate firebug named Sam – silly me… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279.md?page=4)