Tons of them, which is why Twitter has a verification process. It’s a strict one, too- ask Salman Rushdie. We don’t have anything like that, and that’s one reason you wouldn’t see anybody writing news stories about what purportedly famous people are saying on this board.
I thought it was ironic that Chuck Norris is now a poster here 
There is another message board I frequent where several celebrities do post under their real names. Most of them are far far far from being household names, but a few of them certainly are very well-known outside of the niche community.
That’s why I added numbers to the end of my name.
OK, OK, I admit it. I am really Chico Marx. So I apologize to the legions of SDMB women I’ve seduced who thought I was really Harpo. It’s an easy mistake to make.
honk Make that three hard-boiled eggs!
Even if one famous person was using a nick that’s the name of another famous person?
Sorry, Quasi looks like the SDMB authorities would refuse to put the nix on Nixon nicking Stevie Nicks’ nick, son.
I want to go on the record as stating clearly and formally that I am the famous Gagundathar The Inexplicable, storied adventurer of movie and video blog fame. Except no substitutes.
PM me if you want to get together for a drink sometime (but only if you are buying).
“Enne” is a female nominant. “Comedian” is the standard and male term. “Commedienne” is a variant used for female comedy people.
Okay, possible solution?
Quotation marks or an underscore between the first and last name.
If it’s your real name, I don’t have a beef. I’m crazy, not stupid.
That’s it.
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Quasi, there’s no real risk here. The celebrity, the newspaper, the reporter, none of them would blame us if someone misattributed a quote to a poster on an anonymous message board.
The underscore doesn’t change anything. Think about it this way: everybody’s names where are in quotation marks. They’re nicknames.
Ok I confess. I am not the real Drunky Smurf. Although we were roommates for a couple of years and I don’t think he’d really mind me using his name.
That’s about 4.8% more than me.
“I got misled on the interwebs. BooHoo.”
Cry my a f’n river.
Let it be known that I am, in fact, the real Mr. Mustard.
You can ask my sister, Pam: I think she’s working in the shop.
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Is this Gaelic?
Back in 1997 or so, I did one of those free months of AOL things and made myself an account that was something like lflynt97 and filled in all of the profile information as if I was the real Larry Flynt. It was supposed to be a one off joke with a friend for a reason that I don’t recall. Of course, these were more innocent days as far as the 'net went but I couldn’t believe how many emails and PMs that I got from people who thought that I was the real Larry Flynt. Fun times.
These days, of course, there is zero risk of a problem and a rule change would be beyond silly.
Are you talking about actual, phony ones, or just parody accounts that state right up front that they’re fake? Because I read some of those – they’re hysterical.
(You aren’t the real Jeremy Roenick, are you? If so, no offense, but…ew)
Oh, and I must confess – my name is NOT Guinastasia. Sorry, folks, I know, I know.
Quasimodem, forgive me, but you’re looking for a solution to a non-existent problem. And how would the banning of celebrity names have made any difference to the situation you spoke of? The person involved could still have led you merrily up the garden-path by telling you that for obvious reasons she was not using her real name as her user name but she was in fact the true Meryl Streep or whoever, honestly she was.
If you believe someone is egregiously misrepresenting themselves you should contact a mod. I don’t know if there are any specific rules about this but I’m pretty sure “Don’t be a jerk” would cover it.
How would you even draw the line on who is a celebrity? It’s not just impractical, it’s pretty damn close to impossible.