# Weird, there's another me! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 7, 2012, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-theres-another-me/614997 "2012-03-07T01:47:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-theres-another-me/614997/21 "2012-03-08T00:50:35Z")
Well he’s not Agent Towers, for a start. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-theres-another-me/614997/22 "2012-03-08T01:06:32Z")
Two more that often have me confused: [**Quasimodem,**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) also known as our good friend, Bill, who joined in 2000, and the almost identically-named [**Quasimodal,**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) who joined in 2003. Both long-time active members in very good standing here, but darnit, sometimes I just have to look twice to make sure just who is posting what. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-theres-another-me/614997/23 "2012-03-08T02:02:44Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > You think that’s weird..there’s another me in real life. Living in the same city. Same first and last name. AND we have three..THREE..doctors in common. > > -D/a (the original) Not weird at all if you have a really common name. When I lived in a city of 170k or so, about 15 years ago, there were 7 of me in the phone book. ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-theres-another-me/614997/24 "2012-03-08T02:20:52Z")
I remember someone being jumped upon for picking a name with “Wally” in it many years ago. I wonder if that was the OP’s friend. People asked him to change his name because it reminded them of **WallyM7** , a very prominent poster from the early days of the board who was, at that time, generally believed to have died in a tragic accident in 2000. Years later, it was revealed that this accident was never confirmed to have actually happened, so I wonder if folks would have the same reaction to the name today. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-theres-another-me/614997/25 "2012-03-08T03:03:10Z")
> [@](#): > > **Weird, there’s another me!** > [@PlainJain](#): > > Well, not really but damn close. [plainjane](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php). What’s even stranger is that I notice from her profile that she also had Opiate ‘issues’ in the past (good for her that she, like me, is a couple of years clean). _There’s a new world somewhere They call The Promised Land And I’ll be there some day If you will hold my hand I still need you there beside me No matter what I do For I know I’ll never find another you_ [http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/s/seekers/ill\_never\_find\_another\_you.html](http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/s/seekers/ill_never_find_another_you.html) ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-theres-another-me/614997/26 "2012-03-08T12:43:35Z")
I asked a similar question here a few years back due to there being several similar versions to my nick- there was MTCicero (subsequently banned) and then there was Cesario who was a kiddy diddler and got chucked out. It can be confusing. I think Admin has done a good job here sorting this out. And I dips my lid to Crooked Teeth. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-theres-another-me/614997/27 "2012-03-09T03:05:56Z")
So, where _is_ this **Crooked Teeth** now? Her first post is much anticipated. Better be good. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-theres-another-me/614997/28 "2012-03-09T03:09:39Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > Who is **Argent Foxtrot?** \*You \*are Number Six. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2012, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-theres-another-me/614997/29 "2012-03-11T04:10:16Z")
When I chose the name **GuanoLad** , which I use across the web, I thought not only that it was 100% unique, but nobody in their right mind\* would ever choose to use it themselves anyway. Plus, I made it up in the mid 90s for a comic strip I drew, so I figured it was mine to do with as I please. But it turns out there is one other person who has the name. He is in the UK, and I only discovered him when I tried to sign up to Flickr. I messaged him, and he claims to have made the name up almost a decade earlier than I had. Since then, when I Google myself, I’ve noticed him posting to various places across the web that will never cross over with myself (wine sites, for example) so in the end it worked out rather well. Weird, though. \*I, of course, am not in my right mind. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2012, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-theres-another-me/614997/30 "2012-03-11T05:26:52Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > When I chose the name **GuanoLad** , which I use across the web, I thought not only that it was 100% unique,… > \ I’ve found at least two other people using my user name at other places. I first used in in the early 80s. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-theres-another-me/614997/31 "2012-03-11T15:27:55Z")
My doper name is often used, but my email name never is, and, because of that, it’s the default name I use everywhere. The disadvantage is that it has no vowels and people find it hard to remember correctly. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-theres-another-me/614997/32 "2012-03-12T03:02:44Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > … I, of course, am not in my right mind. So whose right mind are you in? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-theres-another-me/614997/33 "2012-03-12T03:38:49Z")
JOhn Malkovich’s? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-theres-another-me/614997/34 "2012-03-12T04:12:57Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > So whose right mind are you in? I’m in my left mind. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-theres-another-me/614997/35 "2012-03-12T05:09:14Z")
I remember at one time there was an **alansmithee** or something like that here. I thought about complaining, but it seemed kind of petty, and I think he’d been here a while when I noticed him. He didn’t stick around, so it didn’t matter in the long run. But anything you think I’ve said in the past that offended you was definitely him! 😉 On most other places I try to sign up as Alan Smithee, I find the name already taken. I use Rithmomachy as my backup name. I don’t think that’s ever been taken. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-theres-another-me/614997/36 "2012-03-12T06:26:24Z")
I have a friend in real life with the same first and last name(no relation.) Our mutual friends usually call me the Other Our Name since pretty much all of them knew him first and he’s older. Our name is common and there are tons of us. I’m also the Doper formerly named **Ataraxy**. There’s another Doper named **ataraxy22**. I was the original. EDIT: stupid homophone ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-theres-another-me/614997/37 "2012-03-12T19:45:31Z")
I sometimes still feel guilty that I didn’t lurk long enough to know what a big poster **Needs2know** was back then before I chose my user name. **Knead** Woulda made an excellent **Darth Volvo** ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2012, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-theres-another-me/614997/38 "2012-03-13T19:05:17Z")
People sometimes used to get me mixed up with **Bippy the Beardless** , who joined the SDMB just two weeks before I did. The Bipster has disappeared, though–he hasn’t posted in five years. ---
**Author:** ![Qwakkeddup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/90ced4/32.png) [@Qwakkeddup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwakkeddup)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-theres-another-me/614997/39 "2012-03-13T21:24:07Z")
Way back in the AOHELL days, I had a fairly unique and memorable username that I used from email to any site that required a username. Had to drop it though when a friend of mine got stalked/hacked by some lowlife AOHELL chat scum. Maybe half a doz came and went before I took up my current moniker. I like it, it suits me well. and I don’t think I get confused with anyone else either! ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2012, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-theres-another-me/614997/40 "2012-03-13T22:25:04Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Seriously, a few years back there was a girl in Texas that had that moniker … she was going to college last I heard. Hope she’s still playing tuba. Or diving in the tub. A. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-theres-another-me/614997.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-theres-another-me/614997.md?page=3)