# Should I change my user name to Jack Dean Tyler? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 26, 2007, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-change-my-user-name-to-jack-dean-tyler/397534 "2007-03-26T12:59:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-change-my-user-name-to-jack-dean-tyler/397534/1 "2007-03-26T12:59:17Z")
A recent search of the boards on “Jack Dean Tyler” as a user name reveals _nothing_. He’s been purged from the system. Annihilated. _Vaporized_. So, my interpretation is that the user name is up for grabs, since according to the current database, it’s never been used. Thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-change-my-user-name-to-jack-dean-tyler/397534/2 "2007-03-26T13:01:24Z")
What the heck’s wrong with Winston Smith, I ask ya? ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-change-my-user-name-to-jack-dean-tyler/397534/3 "2007-03-26T13:08:09Z")
I’d have to change the hair color and height on my mental picture of you. Do you really want red curls on a 5’3" frame? ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-change-my-user-name-to-jack-dean-tyler/397534/4 "2007-03-26T13:17:42Z")
While there are no currently available threads that contain his fevered posts, he still resides in the overall user database and we have a policy to never re-issue usernames. (Do you really want someone else returning from a long absence deciding to make you a harrassment target based on your (really) odd choice of names?) ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-change-my-user-name-to-jack-dean-tyler/397534/5 "2007-03-26T13:20:49Z")
[QUOTE=picunurse] I’d have to change the hair color and height on my mental picture of you. Do you really want red curls on a 5’3" frame? [/QUOTE] Um, I prefer the term “strawberry blond”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-change-my-user-name-to-jack-dean-tyler/397534/6 "2007-03-26T13:46:39Z")
**Winston Smith** , you just made reference to an unperson. Report to the Ministry of Love immediately. Best user name thread starter ever. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-change-my-user-name-to-jack-dean-tyler/397534/7 "2007-03-26T14:11:50Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] What the heck’s wrong with Winston Smith, I ask ya? [/QUOTE] **Nothing**. A lot. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-change-my-user-name-to-jack-dean-tyler/397534/8 "2007-03-26T15:46:51Z")
How about Tack Jean Dyler? ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-change-my-user-name-to-jack-dean-tyler/397534/9 "2007-03-26T15:49:24Z")
This Board would forever be a duller place if the name **Winston Smith** were to no longer grace it’s pages. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-change-my-user-name-to-jack-dean-tyler/397534/10 "2007-03-26T16:30:14Z")
[QUOTE=Nic2004] This Board would forever be a duller place if the name **Winston Smith** were to no longer grace it’s pages. [/QUOTE] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-change-my-user-name-to-jack-dean-tyler/397534/11 "2007-03-26T16:39:53Z")
\ Not available. Not sure why your search didn’t turn it up, but it’s still in the system. \ Besides, **Winston Smith** is an awesome name. Don’t even think about changing it. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-change-my-user-name-to-jack-dean-tyler/397534/12 "2007-03-26T17:17:27Z")
“What kind of username defines me as a person?” ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-change-my-user-name-to-jack-dean-tyler/397534/13 "2007-03-26T18:22:26Z")
Heck no ! How would I ever figure out if it was you that took over the world ? ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-change-my-user-name-to-jack-dean-tyler/397534/14 "2007-03-26T18:58:06Z")
Wasn’t Jack Dean Tyler the guy who posted nonstop about foreskins? ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-change-my-user-name-to-jack-dean-tyler/397534/15 "2007-03-26T19:03:25Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] Wasn’t Jack Dean Tyler the guy who posted nonstop about foreskins? [/QUOTE] _There’s_ a legacy you want a continued association with. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-change-my-user-name-to-jack-dean-tyler/397534/16 "2007-03-26T20:02:01Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Smith] **Nothing**. A lot. [/QUOTE] \*I \*like it! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-change-my-user-name-to-jack-dean-tyler/397534/17 "2007-03-26T20:32:34Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] Wasn’t Jack Dean Tyler the guy who posted nonstop about foreskins? [/QUOTE] Yes. Very yes. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-change-my-user-name-to-jack-dean-tyler/397534/18 "2007-03-26T21:35:13Z")
Well, to be fair, I recall him talking about Jack the Ripper once. Specifically, about how the evidence all pointed to Jack the Ripper being the Duke of Clarence. Who would have been one of very few guys around at the time (excluding Jews) who had been circumcised. Therefore showing how circumcision is bad. When it was pointed out that the evidence didn’t actually point to the Duke of Clarence, he merely responded that as the only circumcised candidate, therefore he must have been Jack the Ripper. It was a nifty little display of circular logic. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-change-my-user-name-to-jack-dean-tyler/397534/19 "2007-03-26T21:50:38Z")
The proposed user name change is doubleplusungood. ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-change-my-user-name-to-jack-dean-tyler/397534/20 "2007-03-26T22:03:06Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] **Winston Smith** , you just made reference to an unperson. Report to the Ministry of Love immediately. [/QUOTE] If I may say so, this line was brilliant and inspired. That’s it… I just wanted to point out that I loved it. Zev Steinhardt [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-change-my-user-name-to-jack-dean-tyler/397534.md?page=2)