# Posters you've gotten confused many times **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 2012, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-youve-gotten-confused-many-times/636082 "2012-09-28T01:32:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-youve-gotten-confused-many-times/636082/1 "2012-09-28T01:32:22Z")
John\_Mace and JohnClay. Wtf. Mace has always sounded very intelligent and I was always surprised how fucking nuts he sounded when talking about chicks. Until I saw the pit thread by JohnClay today. I realized that I was attributing clay posts to mace. Who do you sometimes confuse without a double take? ---
**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:** [September 28, 2012, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-youve-gotten-confused-many-times/636082/2 "2012-09-28T01:54:31Z")
There’s the obvious Argent Towers / Agent Foxtrot thing. Quasimodem and Quasimodal. Definitely a few others. Joe ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-youve-gotten-confused-many-times/636082/3 "2012-09-28T13:22:41Z")
Sometimes I see a post by\*\* cochrane \*\*and from just skimming the screen, I think it’s me. I read the post and go “wha…? Oh. I didn’t write that.” ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-youve-gotten-confused-many-times/636082/4 "2012-09-28T18:03:36Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > Sometimes I see a post by\*\* cochrane \*\*and from just skimming the screen, I think it’s me. I read the post and go “wha…? Oh. I didn’t write that.” Ditto for me and **Learjeff.** ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-youve-gotten-confused-many-times/636082/5 "2012-09-28T18:10:10Z")
There are posters **Tripler** and **TriPolar**. While **Tripler** sounds like a reasonably nice guy, **TriPolar** seems to be superlatively witty, suave, and devilishly handsome, so I don’t have trouble telling them apart. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-youve-gotten-confused-many-times/636082/6 "2012-09-28T18:49:50Z")
I do believe there is an MLS on the board. Sometimes people refer to me by my initials and I think that MLS is also in the thread. WhyNot has a poster with similar name, threw me for a loop once or twice. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-youve-gotten-confused-many-times/636082/7 "2012-09-28T18:59:45Z")
Sam Stone and The Second Stone ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-youve-gotten-confused-many-times/636082/8 "2012-09-28T19:04:09Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Sam Stone and The Second Stone +1 ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-youve-gotten-confused-many-times/636082/9 "2012-09-28T19:10:07Z")
**asterion** and **astorian**. Since neither names are real words anyway, it makes it more difficult to remember who is who. ---
**Author:** ![ColdPhoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@ColdPhoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColdPhoenix)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-youve-gotten-confused-many-times/636082/10 "2012-09-28T19:13:26Z")
Cicero and Cesario. Ha! ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-youve-gotten-confused-many-times/636082/11 "2012-09-28T19:17:54Z")
We’ve done this one numerous times over the years. The two which threw me for a loop: noticed **Mangetout** pretty early on, but soon noticed another poster whose handle I also assumed was derived from French, **Mangeorge**. At first I thought it was **Mange Ogre** (mangy ogre?), but only later noticed the spelling wasn’t like that, leaving me a bit nonplussed-in my mind anytime I’d come across it, I’d pronounce it “ **Manjy Orje** ”. Only much later did it dawn on me that it was meant to be **Man George** , and not French-derived at all. On that same note, **Der Trihs** ’ is most definitely not German. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-youve-gotten-confused-many-times/636082/12 "2012-09-28T19:42:15Z")
People are always confusing me with \*\*Stranger On A Train \*\*. What? Oh I thought you said mollusk… ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-youve-gotten-confused-many-times/636082/13 "2012-09-28T20:50:17Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > Sometimes I see a post by\*\* cochrane \*\*and from just skimming the screen, I think it’s me. I read the post and go “wha…? Oh. I didn’t write that.” > [@Leaffan](#): > > Ditto for me and **Learjeff.** I do that with **shiftless**. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-youve-gotten-confused-many-times/636082/14 "2012-09-28T20:57:43Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > There are posters **Tripler** and **TriPolar**. While **Tripler** sounds like a reasonably nice guy, **TriPolar** seems to be superlatively witty, suave, and devilishly handsome, so I don’t have trouble telling them apart. Add in **Trinopus** and you get my most frequently confusing trio. I could never confuse **John Mace** and **JohnClay** , but I sometimes have to think about **John Mace** vs. **John DiFool**. Also, for some reason I get **Loach** and **Leaffan** mixed up. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-youve-gotten-confused-many-times/636082/15 "2012-09-28T22:34:07Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > **asterion** and **astorian**. Since neither names are real words anyway, it makes it more difficult to remember who is who. My username used to be Aesiron. They confused me, too. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-youve-gotten-confused-many-times/636082/16 "2012-09-28T22:51:08Z")
I think I’ve been confused for stoid a few times. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-youve-gotten-confused-many-times/636082/17 "2012-09-28T23:05:09Z")
**mnemosyne** and **Mnemnosyne**. At first I thought that **mnemosyne** had changed her name to be capitalized. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-youve-gotten-confused-many-times/636082/18 "2012-09-29T18:19:02Z")
I am always confusing **pancakes3** with myself. I’ll start reading a post, and thinking “Did I really say that?” Come to think of it, nobody’s ever seen the two of us together. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-youve-gotten-confused-many-times/636082/19 "2012-09-29T20:37:14Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Ditto for me and **Learjeff.** And for me and AndrewL ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2012, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-youve-gotten-confused-many-times/636082/20 "2012-09-29T23:08:33Z")
> [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > WhyNot has a poster with similar name, threw me for a loop once or twice. Well, it’s not like I’m doing it on purpose, you know. (Actually, it’s exactly like that. You get your laughs where you can.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-youve-gotten-confused-many-times/636082.md?page=2)