# Trolls R Us Resurrections (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 11, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518 "2021-09-11T17:26:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 272
**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:** [July 10, 2023, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9905 "2023-07-10T15:12:47Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > **octagon octagon octagon**!!! So he’s actually Chuck Norris? ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9906 "2023-07-10T15:15:58Z")
I’m sorry, I cannot answer that question as I have been grievously injured by an eight-sided throwing-weapon. Like, if you took a stop sign, sharpened the edges into blades, and then threw it like a frisbee. Happened just after my ETA… ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9907 "2023-07-10T15:16:33Z")
[![](https://www.collectedcurios.com/SAS_0071_Small.jpg) ](https://www.collectedcurios.com/SAS_0071_Small.jpg) > [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > Who? There’s really not reason not to spell output a name? The danger is t people searching the board for their names (because they’d just come straight here), it’s @'ing them. Don’t @ them, and it will be fine. EastUmpqua. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9908 "2023-07-10T15:41:20Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > I don’t mean to be all **ILMVI** about this, but clarity would be appreciated. ILMVI? You really shouldn’t be using acronyms without explaining them. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9909 "2023-07-10T15:42:12Z")
I’m always happy to see someone has gotten the joke. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9910 "2023-07-10T16:23:20Z")
I concur, but I recognize this one as the palindromic **I Love Me Vol. I**. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9911 "2023-07-10T16:35:16Z")
I’m pretty sure **DG** does as well. The joke, which comes from reducing their name down to an acronym, is that they frequently complain (to the point of derailing threads) about acronyms. What better way to dig on someone who complains about acronyms than by reducing their name to an acronym? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9912 "2023-07-10T16:41:13Z")
I don’t like lazy posters who think everybody understands their acronyms either. There’s no trail of context you have to check to affirm that. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9913 "2023-07-10T16:43:35Z")
There’s a difference between “not liking,” even “asking for clarification,” and derailing an entire thread by going on at length about the horror of using unfamiliar acronyms. ETA: This might perhaps be better discussed in another (existing) thread, rather than here: > [@I Pit ILMVI for Complaining Incessantly About Acronyms](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-ilmvi-for-complaining-incessantly-about-acronyms/943142): > > ILMVI, please, for the love of DOYC, stop derailing threads to gripe about acronyms (or, for that matter, [legalese you don’t understand](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-an-american-with-a-40-year-old-dui-in-america-visit-canada/943054/28)). I have gotten so sick of you disrupting threads over [your pet peeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pwua-people-who-use-acronyms-and-terms-they-assume-people-will-know-spoiler-they-dont/839030/53) that I have had you on ignore for months now (honest: that’s the only reason, I can’t stand your moaning about acronyms). But apparently even that’s not enough. Because every time you drop a squat in a thread over someone’s use of an acronym (and so frequently in situations where its meaning… ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9914 "2023-07-10T16:58:53Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > There’s a difference between “not liking,” even “asking for clarification,” and derailing an entire thread by going on at length about the horror of using unfamiliar acronyms. Yes, very annoying when they should be complaining about initialisms instead. /pedant ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9915 "2023-07-10T17:07:06Z")
You don’t pronounce ILMVI as _ilm-vee_? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9916 "2023-07-10T17:09:57Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Oh, I think English is not their first language, I recall something about them being in East Asia. They absolutely fall under the mostly harmless category at worst from my limited interactions with them. I sometimes get **Octagon** ’s posts confused with those from **cannonkuo** , whom I know is in East Asia, and for whom English is not their first language. They both tend to ask clarification questions around specific historical events (and articles about them), though cannonkuo’s posts are nearly always about the Falklands War. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9917 "2023-07-10T17:10:55Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > I concur, but I recognize this one as the palindromic **I Love Me Vol. I** Ah, jeeze, I’m embarrassed - I never before now realized that username is a palindrome. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2023, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9918 "2023-07-10T17:17:26Z")
Same here. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9919 "2023-07-10T18:58:22Z")
It came as a surprise to me too, when he explained it to us at the San Francisco Dope Fest a few weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9920 "2023-07-10T19:12:45Z")
It was kind of obvious and I just assumed everybody else noticed it, too. Guess not The origins of usernames do come up around here but not all that frequently. One of the drawbacks when the average board member has been around for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9921 "2023-07-10T19:17:09Z")
Another one here who missed it… j ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2023, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9922 "2023-07-11T00:37:43Z")
People always assume I like to paddle a boat. Turns out Mr and Mrs Aker named their son Kay. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2023, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9923 "2023-07-11T00:44:55Z")
Ah, yes, like B.J. Hunnicutt, named for his mother, Bea, and his father, Jay. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2023, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/9924 "2023-07-11T01:10:51Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > People always assume I like to paddle a boat. Turns out Mr and Mrs Aker named their son Kay I think we’ve also met your brother Bay here. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=271) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=273)