# jamiemcgarry is now Ambivalid. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 2, 2011, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamiemcgarry-is-now-ambivalid/598307 "2011-10-02T00:17:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamiemcgarry-is-now-ambivalid/598307/1 "2011-10-02T00:17:01Z")
I just wanted people to be aware of my username change. My initial decision to use my real name has outgrown it’s usefulness and I decided to go a more anonymous route (but not really since my real name can easily be found). Anyway, just wanted to avoid any confusion. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamiemcgarry-is-now-ambivalid/598307/2 "2011-10-02T00:42:20Z")
Thank god… I was worried you had competition. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamiemcgarry-is-now-ambivalid/598307/3 "2011-10-02T00:44:09Z")
Ambivalid sounds like a superhero name. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamiemcgarry-is-now-ambivalid/598307/4 "2011-10-02T00:46:06Z")
Your name sounds like you’re a member of the Legion of Superheroes,\*\* Ambivalad\*\*. ETA: Wow. Nice job, Saturn Girl. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamiemcgarry-is-now-ambivalid/598307/5 "2011-10-02T00:51:22Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Ambivalid sounds like a superhero name. Ha! An ambivilant one, maybe. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamiemcgarry-is-now-ambivalid/598307/6 "2011-10-02T00:52:41Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Ambivalid sounds like a superhero name. Yeah, but not a top of the shelf one. More like Skateman. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamiemcgarry-is-now-ambivalid/598307/7 "2011-10-02T00:56:18Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Ambivalid sounds like a superhero name. Sounds like a sleep aid to me - Ambien’s younger brother perhaps. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamiemcgarry-is-now-ambivalid/598307/8 "2011-10-02T00:59:06Z")
I’ve often thought it wouldn’t be that hard to make a superhero team out of drug names. “By the power of Zoloft, I am CELEXA!” ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamiemcgarry-is-now-ambivalid/598307/9 "2011-10-02T00:59:32Z")
> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#): > > Yeah, but not a top of the shelf one. More like Skateman. SIZE=“1” :rolleyes:[/SIZE] ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamiemcgarry-is-now-ambivalid/598307/10 "2011-10-02T01:01:40Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > I’ve often thought it wouldn’t be that hard to make a superhero team out of drug names. “By the power of Zoloft, I am CELEXA!” Lord Abilify will grant you three wishes… ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamiemcgarry-is-now-ambivalid/598307/11 "2011-10-02T01:25:04Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Lord Abilify will grant you three wishes… How does one change into their SuperHero outfit if there are no phone booths left in North America? We need more phone booths! ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamiemcgarry-is-now-ambivalid/598307/12 "2011-10-02T01:39:36Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > I’ve often thought it wouldn’t be that hard to make a superhero team out of drug names. “By the power of Zoloft, I am CELEXA!” Well, the marketing types DO, after all, go to great lengths deliberately to come up with names just like that. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamiemcgarry-is-now-ambivalid/598307/13 "2011-10-02T01:42:03Z")
Confused. Is that legal here? I’m regretting my screen name as well, but don’t want to be banned for a sock. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamiemcgarry-is-now-ambivalid/598307/14 "2011-10-02T01:43:58Z")
You get one name change for funsies, after that you need to have a really good reason to run by Tubadiva. ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamiemcgarry-is-now-ambivalid/598307/15 "2011-10-02T01:53:30Z")
Tubadiva will change your user name for a small fee\* (I forget is it chocolate or the tears of lost souls?) ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamiemcgarry-is-now-ambivalid/598307/16 "2011-10-02T02:05:19Z")
Ah, OK. Bribes. gots it 🙂 Holds a cuddly orange kitten out for Tubadiva to smell and touch. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamiemcgarry-is-now-ambivalid/598307/17 "2011-10-02T02:20:08Z")
Probably a PM will get better results. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamiemcgarry-is-now-ambivalid/598307/18 "2011-10-02T02:22:29Z")
That’s hilarious. It just is, I can’t explain. Joe ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamiemcgarry-is-now-ambivalid/598307/19 "2011-10-02T02:31:19Z")
Ahhh, that explains it, I was wondering how a handicapped poster from Michigan managed to rack up 1400+ posts with anyone noticing when I saw this username in the thread about the Churchill bar and no one said anything along the lines of “Oh hai Jamie” ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamiemcgarry-is-now-ambivalid/598307/20 "2011-10-02T02:52:42Z")
And yet one of the first post, if not the first, under this new username is the start of yet another “handicapped” issues thread…ugghhh [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamiemcgarry-is-now-ambivalid/598307.md?page=2)