# Username/Doper misunderstandings!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/username-doper-misunderstandings/157070>\
**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")\
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**Author:** ![Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fred)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/username-doper-misunderstandings/157070/101 "2003-03-03T03:23:06Z")

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My old username, thegrimspectreofreddeath, intuitively reads “Fred Death” at the end. So people call me Fred for short. Then when Tuba added spaces so it wouldn’t mess with the formatting of the boards, she understandably made it “Of Red Death”.

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