# Mental shorthand for posters- A memory game **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 13, 2008, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-shorthand-for-posters-a-memory-game/449126 "2008-05-13T02:39:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-shorthand-for-posters-a-memory-game/449126/41 "2008-05-13T11:49:59Z")
**Devorin** -male, late 20’s early 30’s another poster that doesn’t make waves. Types with an accent. ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-shorthand-for-posters-a-memory-game/449126/42 "2008-05-13T11:55:47Z")
**Anastaseon-** female, nothing jumps out at me, but I know she is well regarded by other posters, there is a camaderie, might be part of the MMP brigade, or one of the women ones. ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-shorthand-for-posters-a-memory-game/449126/43 "2008-05-13T12:01:39Z")
[QUOTE=chaoticbear] Well, except for being 21, and not having anything to do with LOTR, I am blond, and did cut off all my thinning hair, and did get my dick pierced. Oh, some other person. [/QUOTE] But you didn’t do it recently on the board, did you? There was a thread not too long ago talking about it, but it wasn’t you. If you’re not gay, I apologize, but most of the bears here are. \*\*Omi no Kami \*\* probable male, remember the name, but rarely in the threads I see. Not inflammatory or political. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-shorthand-for-posters-a-memory-game/449126/44 "2008-05-13T12:18:18Z")
[QUOTE=fisha] But you didn’t do it recently on the board, did you? There was a thread not too long ago talking about it, but it wasn’t you. If you’re not gay, I apologize, but most of the bears here are. \*\*Omi no Kami \*\* probable male, remember the name, but rarely in the threads I see. Not inflammatory or political. [/QUOTE] Oh, no honey, totally gay. It was last year, I assume I posted about it. Resume light-hearted game! ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-shorthand-for-posters-a-memory-game/449126/45 "2008-05-13T13:03:24Z")
[QUOTE=fisha] **Bibliocat-** female, knows or might be married to **danceswithcats** (who is a contractor and always beats me in response to one of the few questions I can answer, that bastard.) Paramedic or similar type job. Tough mental chick, it comes through in the writing. [/QUOTE] Very good! Jeez, have you been taking notes or something? 😉 (Although I’m not married to **danceswithcats** , but we are a couple. And he is a contractor.) ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-shorthand-for-posters-a-memory-game/449126/46 "2008-05-13T13:08:26Z")
[QUOTE=fisha] **Devorin** -male, late 20’s early 30’s another poster that doesn’t make waves. Types with an accent. [/QUOTE] That’s all correct. What sort of accent do I type with? I’ve never heard anyone say that about me before. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-shorthand-for-posters-a-memory-game/449126/47 "2008-05-13T13:11:29Z")
[QUOTE=fachverwirrt] I’ll put myself out there, waiting depressedly for nobody to remember a thing about me. [/QUOTE] Cardinal fan that enjoys harassing hard-working, kind-hearted Yankee fans whenever the opportunuity presents itself. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-shorthand-for-posters-a-memory-game/449126/48 "2008-05-13T13:32:46Z")
[QUOTE=Dervorin] _Raises hand, motivated by morbid curiosity more than anything else_ I think my posting is too sporadic for anyone to gather anything coherent from it, but I’m intrigued to see if anyone else can. ETA: Subscription [/QUOTE] Perfect place to say this. You watch Bollywood flicks, and you once made a comment about your current inamoratas that had me crying with laughter. I still remember the comment, generally…I do remember how funny it was though. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-shorthand-for-posters-a-memory-game/449126/49 "2008-05-13T13:53:28Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Cardinal fan… [/QUOTE] Red Sox fan, actually. I like the Cardinals and enjoyed it when they won in '06, but I grew up an hour and a half north of Boston. > [@What Exit?](#): > > … that enjoys harassing **hard-working, kind-hearted Yankee fans** whenever the opportunuity presents itself. 😉 No such creature exists. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-shorthand-for-posters-a-memory-game/449126/50 "2008-05-13T14:03:04Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] Perfect place to say this. You watch Bollywood flicks, and you once made a comment about your current inamoratas that had me crying with laughter. I still remember the comment, generally…I do remember how funny it was though. [/QUOTE] I found it! In response to: > [@Zsofia](#): > > You don’t mean to tell me that you don’t have a bazillion backup dancers that appear out of nowhere when needed and then vanish back into the void from whence they came after the song? You replied: > [@Dervorin](#): > > I spent my life tripping over them, the ungrateful degenerates! They just get underfoot. Cramps my style when I’m running around trees with my latest inamorata. Tee hee! ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-shorthand-for-posters-a-memory-game/449126/51 "2008-05-13T14:23:10Z")
[QUOTE=fisha] Male for sure, mid late 20’s, blond, and I think the one who cut off all his thinning hair and got his dick pierced. Name is in ref to LOTR. Maybe, I might be confused, now I am starting to rethink it… [/QUOTE] I think you’re thinking of **ForumBot**? (I have a soft spot for lanky blond guys with interesting piercings and boyish faces… so that kind of thing tends to stick out in my memory 🙂 ) I’d suggest someone do me, but given that I’m somewhat new and not all that active, it might be too much of a challenge. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-shorthand-for-posters-a-memory-game/449126/52 "2008-05-13T14:48:24Z")
[QUOTE=Tengu] …I have a less clear, but, oddly enough, more specific, picture of Elendil’s Heir than EH has of me. Tolkien geek. And despite not being one myself, I seem to remember that being the source of the username. A more general geek, as well, but the Tolkien stands out. I have a vague impression of EH being female, but I may be wrong on this point. [/QUOTE] Yes, I’m a Tolkien geek (Elendil was a great King of Men in the distant past of Tolkien’s Middle-earth). “A more general geek”? Yeah, OK, fair enough - I guess my love of history, vexillology, _Monty Python_, Sherlock Holmes, _Star Trek_, and Hellboy probably qualifies me. But I’m a dude - otherwise, I’d be **Elendil’s Heiress**. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-shorthand-for-posters-a-memory-game/449126/53 "2008-05-13T16:14:15Z")
Whenever I see **Mahna Mahna’s** name I always follow it with a “d’-dooo-do-do-do…” (and a smile). Don’t you have a cat? I know several professions of the professional-but-unemployed (i.e., those whose posting habits makes it obvious they can’t actually have a job). Bricker, Anthracite/UnaPerson, DSQ, Quad, etc. I know our resident conservatives-Bricker again, John Mace, Mr. Moto, etc., but I try quite hard not to notice/remember/track the political leanings of most posters – such artificial perceptions tend to get in the way of the poster’s actual intent. We have our regional experts, John in Saudi, China Guy, etc. As I’m writing this I didn’t realize just how large this list could get—and that’s just the heavy-hitting ten to twenty thousand postcount posters (where _do_ they find the time?!). There’s also the chefs, the programmers, the mathematicians, the auto mechanics, the just-this-side-of-trolls, the crafters, the knitters, the musicians… the list goes on and on, and certain names are associated with the categories. Anaamika is one of our resident experts on things Indian I believe, and I’ve always thought she was a she. I’ve always thought of myself (and other lurkers) as the sand that makes up the SDMB beach. Sure, you notice the old rowboat, the pier, the dunes, etc., a lot more, but the beach is mainly made up of sand. None are all that distinguishable in their own right—but get one in a sandwich, an eye, a sandcastle, or make a keepsake, and the grains stand out. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-shorthand-for-posters-a-memory-game/449126/54 "2008-05-13T17:26:19Z")
**Rhythmdvl** is a percussionist (I seem to recall something specifically about West African percussion) and a fan of first-person shooter games. He’s also involved in maintaining at least one website and may be a legal professional of some stripe (or at least has firm opinions on matters of law and jurisprudence). ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-shorthand-for-posters-a-memory-game/449126/55 "2008-05-13T17:40:42Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] But I’m a dude - otherwise, I’d be **Elendil’s Heiress**. [/QUOTE] I’m not sure how I got the impression you were a dudette… Sadly, I’ll probably be back to thinking you’re a she in a few days. \>\_\> ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-shorthand-for-posters-a-memory-game/449126/56 "2008-05-14T04:51:05Z")
[QUOTE=Tengu] I’m not sure how I got the impression you were a dudette… Sadly, I’ll probably be back to thinking you’re a she in a few days. \>\_\> [/QUOTE] You’re not alone. I thought it was a feminine name too. :smack: You’re right, **fisha** , about me not rocking the boat too much. You’ll rarely see me in GD or the Pit. I’ve gotten much more mellow in my old age 😉 and don’t get too excited about the small stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-shorthand-for-posters-a-memory-game/449126/57 "2008-05-14T16:47:13Z")
I’m almost afraid to ask for someone to do me. I always thought **Elendil’s Heir** was a guy. Tolkien liked softer male names. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-shorthand-for-posters-a-memory-game/449126/58 "2008-05-14T18:01:51Z")
[QUOTE=Silver Tyger Girl] I’m almost afraid to ask for someone to do me. [/QUOTE] I think you are on the younger side, college age probably. I think you are among the Furry or Anime crowd. You like cats. Damn that is all I recall. Sorry about that. ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-shorthand-for-posters-a-memory-game/449126/59 "2008-05-14T18:28:34Z")
**STG** also looks cute in a kimono (and owns a few), and seems to have an affinity for tigers and tiger-related things (duh) and Japanese culture as a whole. **Rhythmdvl** , I do indeed own a cat. Or rather, two cats own me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-shorthand-for-posters-a-memory-game/449126/60 "2008-05-14T20:13:29Z")
[QUOTE=Silver Tyger Girl] I’m almost afraid to ask for someone to do me. I always thought **Elendil’s Heir** was a guy. Tolkien liked softer male names. [/QUOTE] Yeah, you do the kimono otaku thing. That’s all I can think of for you, but I know I’ve been noticing you a lot more around here lately. Okay, do me. God, what a narcissist. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-shorthand-for-posters-a-memory-game/449126.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-shorthand-for-posters-a-memory-game/449126.md?page=4)