# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/81 "2004-12-01T05:27:05Z")
> [@moriah](#): > > I get ‘mariah’ a lot. Accompanied by the assumption I’m female. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/82 "2004-12-01T05:37:33Z")
I don’t know of any off the top of my head that I read wrong but I have to look closely at every post by \*\*Jurph \*\*and \*\*Jenaroph \*\*to make sure it’s one and not the other that’s posting. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/83 "2004-12-01T05:45:14Z")
> [@umop ap!sdn](#): > > Same for **Qadgop**. Have the Mercaptan ever posted an explanation of your username? He got it from another Doc. Smith. That’s a hint. I always confuse **Jaade** with **A Filthy Beast of Meat and Hair**. Can’t say why, really… ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/84 "2004-12-01T05:59:22Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > He got it from another Doc. > > Smith. > > That’s a hint. > > I always confuse **Jaade** with **A Filthy Beast of Meat and Hair**. Can’t say why, really… I always confuse **Jeff Olsen** with that jerkoff **Lute Skywatcher**. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/85 "2004-12-01T06:17:11Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > The origin of my name has been uncovered by a number of canny dopers in the past, and has been discussed in more than one thread. What, no link? 🙂 > [@NoClueBoy](#): > > He got it from another Doc. Smith. Ha! [Found it.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=769052&postcount=21) 😛 😃 One down, one to go… ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/86 "2004-12-01T06:25:12Z")
> [@Ilsa\_Lund](#): > > I always read **TellMeImNotCrazy** as **TellMeImNotCrazy**. That’s insidiously evil of you. I always read it as “i am punha” and thought I was wrong, and I kind of thought “I am pun, ha!” was a cute user name. In a “Hulk smash!” sort of way. “Zsofia” is just one word, not Z Sofia. It was my SCA name for a while, and now it’s just sort of followed me home in an internet fashion. I wish I had a cool user name at my fingertips - I’ve always thought “smartini” was a clever one. And I feel extremely stupid - I thought it was spring ears and something to do with TV also. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/87 "2004-12-01T06:28:33Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > That’s insidiously evil of you. 😕 Look again. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2004, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/88 "2004-12-01T06:39:33Z")
**Sampiro** always makes me think of [Vampiro](http://slam.canoe.ca/SlamWrestlingBios/hodgkison.html). I mean, really, what the heck is a Sampiro? ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/89 "2004-12-01T06:43:17Z")
> [@Really Not All That Bright](#): > > I mean, really, what the heck is a Sampiro? Actually, I believe sampiro is the name for vampire in some cultures. Well, in crosswords it is. ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/90 "2004-12-01T07:21:33Z")
> [@TVeblen](#): > > Like **AEinstein**. Right? _Right??_ Who is this poster who’s into the Arts & Entertainment shows about steins? ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/91 "2004-12-02T01:40:21Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > It’s been \*\*Testicle Monster \*\* ever since [the porno thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5472737&postcount=38) I think of that without the porno thread excuse. I’ve confused the two terms all my life. I never ever answered questions in biology or health class, out of fear. People made fun of me enough already. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2004, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/92 "2004-12-02T01:49:38Z")
> [@dwyr](#): > > [From here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=49129&) Wait, you mean to tell me I was reading it _right_ all along? I was wrong about being wrong! I can’t win… Now I’ll just have to remember that a ‘Punha’ is not a kind of fish. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2004, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/93 "2004-12-02T03:54:10Z")
> [@Jayn\_Newell](#): > > Now I’ll just have to remember that a ‘Punha’ is not a kind of fish. I thought all along it was Portuguese for “fist.” But I just looked it up, and that word is _punho_. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/94 "2004-12-02T04:10:33Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > I thought all along it was Portuguese for “fist.” I was going to ask how you knew the Portuguese word for “fist”, but then I thought I didn’t want to go there. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/95 "2004-12-02T04:23:23Z")
I still always misread Ilsa\_Lund as Isla\_Lund. Until some thread pointed it out, I always had meant to get around to looking at an atlas to see where the hell Lund Island was and what was so freaking special that somebody choose it as a username. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2004, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/96 "2004-12-02T05:01:44Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > I still always misread Ilsa\_Lund as Isla\_Lund. > > Until some thread pointed it out, I always had meant to get around to looking at an atlas to see where the hell Lund Island was and what was so freaking special that somebody choose it as a username. Isla Lund is actually a small island in the North Sea, off the coast of Denmark. A German freighter foundered at the spot, carrying a cargo of food staples to the German occupiers in Norway. There was no Isla Lund before this accident. That’s the name that cartographers have given the hill of beans that was all that was left of the cargo… _runs so damn fast and hides_ ---
**Author:** ![Jaade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@Jaade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaade)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/97 "2004-12-03T03:02:56Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > He got it from another Doc. > > Smith. > > That’s a hint. > > I always confuse **Jaade** with **A Filthy Beast of Meat and Hair**. Can’t say why, really… Why ah nevah! You should be ashamed, Texan. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/98 "2004-12-03T03:11:58Z")
> [@TVeblen](#): > > It’s \*\* T. Veblen\*\*, a _name_, an initial and last name but without the dot or any frilly…uh…_thing_ like a hyphen. (pant, pant) > > Thorstein Veblen > > [This guy](http://www.mnc.net/norway/veblen.html), only, well, not actually male. Or dead. > > Like AEinstein. Right? _Right??_ > > Veb > (“TV emblem?!”) Holy shit, that just rocked my world… 🙂 Seriously, now that I look at your username, I have no idea what I thought it was referring to before…Something about “TV’s”, but beyond that…we enter my gaping hole of ignorance… ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/99 "2004-12-03T12:38:08Z")
I often get called “Kimtsu” instead of “Kimstu”. I kind of like that, it gives me a sort of East Asian identity (to which I have no right IRL). Kim Tsu. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tazmanian\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@Tazmanian\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tazmanian_Devil)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279/100 "2004-12-03T12:50:09Z")
For the longest time, I read elucidator’s name as eludicator. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-of-doper-names-that-i-read-wrong/277279.md?page=6)