# Username/Doper misunderstandings! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 24, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/username-doper-misunderstandings/157070 "2003-02-24T02:49:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/username-doper-misunderstandings/157070/41 "2003-02-24T22:50:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bad News Baboon \* > \*\* > bdgr- went to a dopefest and heard people referring to this guy as Badger. I had no idea who he was - I always read his names as initials. > \*\* Everybody IRL calls me badger, it was my handle back in the old BBS days(late 70’s). When I went to sign up on this board, some thoughtless jerk had used badger already, but never posted anything…So i used the abreviations I used to use on old video game high score tables and BBS’s that only allowed a few characters for user name…Kind of regret it now… ---
**Author:** ![THespos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/username-doper-misunderstandings/157070/42 "2003-02-24T23:12:32Z")
A lot of people think I’m some sort of theatre nerd or something. **THespos** isn’t a play on “Thespian” or anything like that. It’s simply my first initial and my last name. Pronounced “Tee Hess Poase.” ---
**Author:** ![Innanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecd19e/32.png) [@Innanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Innanna)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/username-doper-misunderstandings/157070/43 "2003-02-25T00:30:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by notcynical \* > \*\*I have this vague idea whenever I see **unclivny** that he is some sort of Roman history freak. It’s either because of ‘C’, ‘L’, ‘I’ and ‘V’ in his name, which are of course used in Roman numerals, or perhaps due to to the fact that it shares four letters, in the same order, with Pliny, the Roman noble and historian. \*\* Funnily enough, I always see the name as un-civil-ly. I figured he must be really rude and…um… uncivilized? ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/username-doper-misunderstandings/157070/44 "2003-02-25T01:02:25Z")
I always see **samarm** as sam-aram, and I for some reason pronounce **alphagene** like al-FAG-ne. ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/username-doper-misunderstandings/157070/45 "2003-02-25T01:47:10Z")
I keep seeing **lno** as “ino,” but I’m getting a handy mnemonic: “'ell no!,” like a chimney sweep. I see **Mangeorge** as “mange ogre” which is wrong on so many levels. ---
**Author:** ![dahempfaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@dahempfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dahempfaerie)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/username-doper-misunderstandings/157070/46 "2003-02-25T04:14:01Z")
i always read **unclivny** as “uncle vinny” for some reason ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/username-doper-misunderstandings/157070/47 "2003-02-25T04:30:05Z")
Depending (I think … been a while) on which person you take “mange” as … first or third, it either means (with accompanying subject pronoun) “I eat everything” or “s/he/it eats everything”. If I’m misremembering about the S, though, it’s moot. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/username-doper-misunderstandings/157070/48 "2003-02-25T05:10:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by zigaretten \* > \*\*For some reason I always see **samarm** as samneric from “Lord of the Flies.” > For a long time I thought **mangetout** had to do with touting mangy horses. \*\* I always see it as referring to mangy trout 😕 ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/username-doper-misunderstandings/157070/49 "2003-02-25T05:28:25Z")
I also think that: - CrazyCatLady - CrankyAsAnOldMan - MeanOldLady all live together in a big house, with funny smells, and cats everywhere. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/username-doper-misunderstandings/157070/50 "2003-02-25T05:44:31Z")
I am not, and never have been, **jjimm**. I am also not, nor have ever been, **Chef Troy**. (I’m looking at you, #straightdope!) (See sig if you don’t get this first one.) ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/username-doper-misunderstandings/157070/51 "2003-02-25T05:58:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OpalCat \* > \*\*I always see it as referring to mangy trout 😕 \*\* That’s how **I** always read it! Ugol’s Law (in it’s more general form) strikes again. ---
**Author:** ![CadburyAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@CadburyAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CadburyAngel)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/username-doper-misunderstandings/157070/52 "2003-02-25T06:39:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by samarm \* > \*\*I also think that: > > - CrazyCatLady > - CrankyAsAnOldMan > - MeanOldLady > > all live together in a big house, with funny smells, and cats everywhere. 🙂 \*\* Those are different people?! I gotta go lie down. ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/username-doper-misunderstandings/157070/53 "2003-02-25T07:19:48Z")
When my username is discussed (which it rarely is), people seem to think it has something to do with salt or with tires. [It doesn’t.](http://digiserve.com/heraldry/pimb_s.htm) ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/username-doper-misunderstandings/157070/54 "2003-02-25T12:28:20Z")
Until that strange game a while back that placed usernames in catogories, I didn’t “get” **Sue Dunnym** ’s user name. Honestly, it never even crossed my mind that it was a play on words, perhaps because I had no idea how to pronounce the “surname”. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/username-doper-misunderstandings/157070/55 "2003-02-25T13:07:36Z")
**elfkin477** - Whenever I see your name I always think of a really old elf, or pixie (for some reason). 😃 Perhaps you are related to an elf? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/username-doper-misunderstandings/157070/56 "2003-02-25T14:36:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Meatros \* > \*\ ***elfkin477** - Whenever I see your name I always think of a really old elf, or pixie (for some reason). > > 😃 > > Perhaps you are related to an elf? \*\* Actually, that’s the idea, well, besides the old part. The nickname is in homage to a childhood friend’s conviction that there is elf-blood somewhere in my lineage. What a weirdo 😛 ---
**Author:** ![GKW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@GKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GKW)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/username-doper-misunderstandings/157070/57 "2003-02-25T15:23:07Z")
**Maeglin** will always be Magellan to me. ---
**Author:** ![Winnowill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@Winnowill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnowill)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/username-doper-misunderstandings/157070/58 "2003-02-25T21:26:31Z")
They are "N"s, not "L"s. There are "L"s, but only two. Not four. There are no references to trees in my username. ---
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/username-doper-misunderstandings/157070/59 "2003-02-25T21:41:32Z")
Every time I see a post by **superbee** , I wonder, just for a second, why I don’t remember writing it. I’ve confused **mangeorge** with **Mangetout**. What’s the story with this 12th century **Dangerosa**? ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/username-doper-misunderstandings/157070/60 "2003-02-26T01:59:10Z")
I’ve given up correcting people about my user name. Sure, they’re zeros, not the letter “o”. But you can call me “Dave Woo” if you want. Plenty of people do. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/username-doper-misunderstandings/157070.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/username-doper-misunderstandings/157070.md?page=4)