# What color is your username?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-username/109649>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 18, 2002, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-username/109649 "2002-05-18T01:23:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![StephenG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@StephenG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StephenG)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-username/109649/61 "2002-05-18T06:26:01Z")

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See that? I don’t deserve black! I can’t even type frowns when I try!

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**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-username/109649/62 "2002-05-18T06:45:50Z")

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flodnak

Um, yellow? If there’s one color I’m not, it’s yellow…

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**Author:** ![friggae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/45deac/32.png) [@friggae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friggae)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-username/109649/63 "2002-05-18T06:53:07Z")

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friggae

Pink?! Rats.

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**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-username/109649/64 "2002-05-18T07:31:11Z")

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spooje,

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**Author:** ![kitarak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kitarak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitarak)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-username/109649/65 "2002-05-18T10:14:34Z")

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kitarak

Hmmm. Green, not too bad. I was hoping for blue though. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Nortia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Nortia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nortia)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-username/109649/66 "2002-05-18T10:52:28Z")

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Let’s see… Nortia.

Oh. I wanted pink ☹

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**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-username/109649/67 "2002-05-18T13:00:29Z")

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George W. Bush  
Al Gore

hmmm

Bob Dole  
Bill Clinton  
George Bush  
Michael Dukakis  
Ronald Reagan  
Walter Mondale  
Jimmy Carter  
Gerald Ford

Well I see why Dole and Ford lost, you can barely see them. Other than that I don’t know.

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**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-username/109649/68 "2002-05-18T13:01:28Z")

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Hmmmm… bobkitty

Ahhh, yes. The spilt red blood of my victims, dying horrible, painful, tortured deaths… BWAH HA HA HA HA…

::cough cough cough::

Sorry.

It’s a very pretty red. 😃

-BK

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**Author:** ![dono](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@dono](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dono)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-username/109649/69 "2002-05-18T13:04:21Z")

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**dono**

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**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-username/109649/70 "2002-05-18T13:06:02Z")

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Why A Duck

Sort of teal-ish. I like it.

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**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-username/109649/71 "2002-05-18T13:20:36Z")

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Khadaji

does lower case affect the outcome?  
khadaji

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**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-username/109649/72 "2002-05-18T13:20:53Z")

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Futile Gesture

Drat, yellow on white, sort of like a watery fried egg in the banquet that is SDBM.

How about futile gesture?

Nooo, doomed to this colour whatever the case!

Ok, how about Futile Gesture

That’s better. From now on all my posts will be spoilers.

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**Author:** ![auRa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@auRa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auRa)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-username/109649/73 "2002-05-18T13:22:01Z")

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auRa

Ah crap. I wanted blue.

Well, at least it’s not pink. Ha ha, **MEBuckner**! 🙂

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**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-username/109649/74 "2002-05-18T13:26:01Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Futile Gesture \*  
> **Drat, yellow on white, sort of like a watery fried egg in the banquet that is SDBM.**

Or perhaps maybe SDMB would have made more sense. Hey, SDMB is black.

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**Author:** ![Efrem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@Efrem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Efrem)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-username/109649/75 "2002-05-18T13:48:26Z")

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Efrem

* * *

Salam

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**Author:** ![rsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsa)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-username/109649/76 "2002-05-18T14:07:45Z")

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Anything less than four characters turns out black. Can’t have that, so I’ll have to add a space after my name.

rsa

Ah, very soothing.

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**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-username/109649/77 "2002-05-18T14:19:17Z")

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The Mermaid, blue as the sea of course.

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**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-username/109649/78 "2002-05-18T15:03:32Z")

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hardygrrl

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**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-username/109649/79 "2002-05-18T15:48:09Z")

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**Tranquilis**

Cool!

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**Author:** ![Corrvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@Corrvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corrvin)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-username/109649/80 "2002-05-18T16:39:51Z")

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Corrvin

Hmm.

Corr

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