# Poster names you got wrong...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 18, 2000, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406 "2000-10-18T15:02:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2000, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/1 "2000-10-18T15:02:01Z")
I was just reading Threadspotting’s “Snowman with Issues” thread when I came across a post by **thinksnow** , who mentioned that he is one of the resident snowmen.
“He’s a snowman?” I thought, “how am I supposed to know that?”
Ohhhh…his _name_! And all this time I had been attributing some sort of intellectualism to him by calling him (in my mind) **thinks now**. Turns out his name is actually **think snow**. Oops. Big difference. (Not that thinking snow means you’re _not_ intellectual, but you know what I mean.)
Same thing happened with **Sealemon** …I’d been calling him Sea Lemon, not SillyMon as he has explained.
So anyway…now I’m wondering how many other people I am calling the wrong name. Anybody else make these mistakes?
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### Author:  [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2000, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/2 "2000-10-18T15:11:14Z")
Now that you mention it, I just realized that your name is pronounced “SUN - SHINE”. All this time I thought it was pronounce “SUNS - HEINY”.
🙂
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### Author:  [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2000, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/3 "2000-10-18T15:33:28Z")
For the longest time, I was pronouncing (in my head) **Sue Duhnym** as Sue Done 'Em. It was a while before I made the mental connection… Pseudonym. Boy, did I feel stupid.
BTW, Sue, I hope your new nose has settled down to match the rest of your lovely face.
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### Author:  [@Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2000, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/4 "2000-10-18T16:26:58Z")
**Jack Batty** , what a card! 😃
**ResDog** …aack! All along I’ve thought it was Sue Done 'em too! I _wondered_ what that meant. I thought maybe it was her real name! Duh.
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### Author:  [@Bubble\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bubble_Girl)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2000, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/5 "2000-10-18T16:37:54Z")
**Canthearya** is one I _think_ I was pronouncing wrong.
If I’m not mistaken it should be pronounced **Can’t Hear Ya** and I was thinking it was **Canthear Ya**.
_[sub](I hope I’m right)[/sub]_🙂
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### Author:  [@BornDodgy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BornDodgy)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2000, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/6 "2000-10-18T16:50:37Z")
LOL was sea lemon for me too … me = dumbass
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### Author:  [@TheNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheNerd)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2000, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/7 "2000-10-18T17:13:52Z")
For a long time I read **rundogrun** not as “run dog run”, but instead as some sort of weird fairy-tale samurai sort of thing: “rundo grun”
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2000, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/8 "2000-10-18T17:22:14Z")
> [@](#):
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> For the longest time, I was pronouncing (in my head) Sue Duhnym as Sue Done 'Em. It was a while before I made the mental connection… Pseudonym. Boy, did I feel stupid.
I’m sure you didn’t feel as stupid as I do at this very moment. I’d probably never have made the connection had you not posted it. _Sheesh._ Whattamaroon.
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### Author:  [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2000, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/9 "2000-10-18T17:36:21Z")
I still read Alphagene as Allah-fa-ganuh. I suppose I am mildly dislexic because I see it spelled Alaphagne more often for some odd reason even though I know it is Alpha-gene.
I used to have the problem with Canthearya. Sealemon originally was Seal-mon rather than sea lemon but I went back and forth between the two until he explained it was Silly mon.
HUGS!
Sqrl
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### Author:  [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2000, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/10 "2000-10-18T17:47:04Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Shanin \*
> \*\ ***Canthearya** is one I _think_ I was pronouncing wrong.
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> If I’m not mistaken it should be pronounced **Can’t Hear Ya** and I was thinking it was **Canthear Ya**.
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> _[sub](I hope I’m right)[/sub]_🙂 \*\*
Actually its “Can the arya” she hates classical music.
I have a problem with **Aglarond** , I always read it as **Argo land**.
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2000, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/11 "2000-10-18T18:40:01Z")
For some reason, when I see the handle “mangeorge”, my brain fills in a few extra letters and I end up thinking, “mangeorange”. Don’t know why.
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### Author:  [@Suo\_Na](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suo_Na)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2000, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/12 "2000-10-18T18:47:55Z")
I’ve got you all beat for Sue Duhnym’s name. I used to misread it as “sue dwinim”, kind of like the Houyhnhnms from Gulliver’s Travels.
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### Author:  [@robinh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robinh)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2000, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/13 "2000-10-18T19:07:17Z")
> [@](#):
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> “run dog run”
oh.
I didn’t get Sue’s name either, until someone pointed it out in another thread. I felt rather stupid.
**mangeorge** never breaks up properly for me; I see “mange orge” (ogre?) instead.
I also have no idea how I am supposed to pronounce **iampunha** , as I always see it as “I am pun-ha!”
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### Author:  [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2000, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/14 "2000-10-18T19:10:09Z")
gun-slinger. Just thought you’d like to know.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2000, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/15 "2000-10-18T19:24:12Z")
Ah.
I always read it as “Gunsl,” y’know, like Wilmer, the “gunsel,” in THE MALTESE FALCON, and figured “Inger” was your name.
I’ve always pictured you as a gorgeous chesty blonde Swedish chick in a fedora hat.
Apropos of nothing, I was looking at the “designated hitter” thread in GQ, and briefly read it as **Designated Hitler.** Which would be kind of cool if some new right-wing loony joined up in order to express his racist and Europe-conquering views in Great Debates.
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### Author:  [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2000, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/16 "2000-10-18T19:35:26Z")
Geeze, **Ike**. I thought I was the only one who read it as “Designated Hitler.” :eek:
I’m with **robinh** – Just how in the heck am I supposed to pronounce **iampunha**?
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### Author:  [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2000, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/17 "2000-10-18T19:57:56Z")
All of this talk reminds me of one of my favourite Jack Handy’s Deep Thoughts.
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: “Mankind”. Basically, it’s made up of two separate words - “mank” and “ind”. What do these words mean? It’s a mystery, and that’s why so is mankind.
By the way, my name is pronounced lolagr anola. It’s actually ancient Sumerian. Roughly translated, it means “bearer of wisdom” or “one who humps camels”, depending on how much emphasis you give the “gr”.
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### Author:  [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2000, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/18 "2000-10-18T20:02:52Z")
My name is _spelled_ Crunchy Frog, but it’s _pronounced_ Throat Warbler Mangrove.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2000, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/19 "2000-10-18T20:10:20Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by lolagranola \*
> \*\*By the way, my name is pronounced lolagr anola. It’s actually ancient Sumerian. Roughly translated, it means “bearer of wisdom” or “one who humps camels”, depending on how much emphasis you give the “gr”. \*\*
Lola: That’s enough Big Boy, you’re finished.
Camel: No I’m not, baby, I’m a dromedary.
That one might fly over my own head when I read it.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2000, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/20 "2000-10-18T20:10:51Z")
It took me a while to figure out “Sue Dohnym”, too, I have to admit.
Every time I see “Fretful Porpentine” I have to think “Forgetful Porcupine”. Ouch!
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