I worked at a first initial last name place and they made an exception for Frank Uckert. He got franku@
I went to grad school with an M. Adams. During one presentation with a list of email addresses for a paper’s authors, some confused member of the audience asked “Who is Madam S?”.
Or Volkswagen Italia.
I knew a Rabbi Weinberg whose auto-generated “first initial-last name” email username was sweinberg. He decided it was too funny to change.
I recall the case of a young woman in college, who was assigned her email address by the institution, no choices, no changes. Their policy was to use the last name of the student followed by the first two letters of their first name. This did not work out well for Megan Finger. Though I do understand she was able to eventually get it changed, but it took some time.
Chunkylover69?
America’s synagogues are full of Sarah, Susan, Sam & Sheldon Weinbergs. I’ll bet every university in the US has a sweinberg@[college].edu
I once worked with a guy named Anthony Samuel S****.
True story:
At the government agency where I used to work, the convention for our user IDs was:
- First Initial; Middle Initial; First five letters of last name.
I had a colleague whose last name began with the letters KNAZI.
His wife also worked there. Her first and middle initials were both K.
They made an exception to the convention and gave her a different used ID.
Shades of a dearly departed Doper from years ago, @norinew, whose actual name was “Norine W.”, but Dopers always assumed it was “Nori New”…
Pour one out for the Richard Heads of the world. I have known no fewer than 3, they all went by “Rich”.
Also knew a Butler Head, but he just kind of powered through it.
On the flipside, I once worked with a guy who was B. Eastman and thought his work email address was rad as hell. No period, even!
Or Mole Station Nursery.
Makes me think of Swedenborg, which is doubly amusing.
Just leave the @whatever.com off to preserve their anonymity.
There’s nothing in the part ahead of the @ that’s ruder than stuff already on SDMB.
Yeah, double-entendre usernames/email addresses are funny, and everyone should feel free to have a private chuckle about them. And if you know somebody is considering adopting a username/address whose spelling has some potentially embarrassing connotations, feel free to gently point it out to them in case they didn’t notice.
But in the case of somebody’s established email or username that they’ve been using since whenever? Don’t waste their time and make yourself look immature by telling them about the embarrassing connotations. Grown-ups should be able to communicate professionally without drawing attention to unintentionally amusing aspects of personal nomenclature.
It’s “fapportrait.” Not the most risque, but still unfortunate. I may be blowing the whole thing out of proportion.
I can’t begin to fathom your concern.
Maybe worth a small chuckle but not worth embarrassing someone about. Many people probably won’t even get it
Yeah, definitely blowing out of proportion IMHO. Not everybody even recognizes the word “fap”, and it’s not an especially shocking word anyway.
You’ve had a chuckle with us about it, and that’s perfectly fine, but I think it would sound officious and maybe even a bit prurient to go out of your way to draw your contractor’s/supplier’s/whatever’s attention to this trivial nomenclatural infelicity.