# What's in a name? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 3, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245 "2006-01-03T16:59:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/1 "2006-01-03T16:59:35Z")
In [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=352226&page=2), **Excalibre** gets an official mod warning w/comment about mods discussing posting future for him for calling **Q.E.D.** , “ **G.E.D.** ”. I know the rule. I recall the circumstances wherein it came to play (posters refusing to call a particular poster by their current name, vs. a past name). That type of thing I can definately get behind, since A. It circumvents the entire reason a poster may choose a different name and B. it can cause confusion. and I applaud the mods in that they’ve don’t pull this rule up for any common misspellings or typos of folks’ names, only enforcing when it appears to be an intentional slight. and, the whole ‘making fun of some one’s name’ generally seems to me to be childish, rarely funny, and all in all a piss poor way of making a point. Generally speaking in the past (when it was allowed) I almost always thought less of the person employing the tactic, vs. the object, but that’s neither here nor there. _However_, in a forum where it’s perfectly acceptable to call a poster “you goat felching bulimic treasonous moronic amoeba”, to sanction off “but don’t make fun of his name” seems, well, more than a bit odd. **Excalibre** deserved the warning for breaking a known rule. (MHO and all) But I submit that if a poster is so thin skinned that they go ballistic over someone poking fun at their user name, they shouldn’t be posting here in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/2 "2006-01-03T17:25:06Z")
> [@](#): > > Excalibre deserved the warning for breaking a known rule. (MHO and all) But I submit that if a poster is so thin skinned that they go ballistic over someone poking fun at their user name, they shouldn’t be posting here in the first place. Curious. My understanding of that particular proscription is that is applied **only** to screennames inside the quotation tags. As in: > [@EggSucker](#): > > Eat me raw, eggboy! Mebbe I be mistaken, tho’. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/3 "2006-01-03T17:29:51Z")
Can I point something out here? I misspelled **Q.E.D.**'s name on accident, _during a comment while I was admonishing him to keep off-board matters off-board._ **Q.E.D.** has, through some chain of confused reasoning, decided that he has a personal conflict with me (he doesn’t) based upon off-board stuff. In the message in question, I was asking him to leave off-board matters off board. Why did I get a warning over a typo, when **Q.E.D.** didn’t get one for trying to dredge up some other problem he has with me in a completely inappropriate forum? ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/4 "2006-01-03T17:41:46Z")
**Beer** I sorta thought that, too, but even if so, I think it’s silly in this forum. **Excalibre** _by accident_? huh. but my comment about thin skinned still holds true for me. Hell, some one years ago did an intentional gig on my user name and all I did was a mental " :rolleyes: " - I mean it didn’t even rise up to the level of posting a rejoinder. that’s the sort of thing a child under 5 would get bent about, I would think. Criminey, IRL, folks used to intentionally mis prounounce my real first name in jr. high (damn the _association_ and their hit song!), and even then all I did was the mental :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/5 "2006-01-03T17:56:53Z")
**UncaBoor** 😉 , I seem to recall some warings, or at least admonitions, given during some heated threads which involved a member being called by their old name. (Mo\_\_\_\_\_ird/H\_\_\_\_r) Why that was such a huge problem is still beyond me. Sometimes the old names just stick in one’s head. I know I’ve called **Lute Skywatcher** by his old name before in some long rambling pointless post before. To sum up: I don’t a point. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/6 "2006-01-03T17:58:22Z")
> [@wring](#): > > _However_, in a forum where it’s perfectly acceptable to call a poster “you goat felching bulimic treasonous moronic amoeba”, to sanction off “but don’t make fun of his name” seems, well, more than a bit odd. Plus, mentioning that you put them on your ignore list is also forbidden. You can say their mother fucked Hitler until his one testical fell off, then gave Mengele a rim job 3 months after he died, but don’t make fun of the username or mention the list. Feelings might get hurt! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/7 "2006-01-03T17:59:50Z")
\*::sigh:: \* It’s hard typing clearly with these straps and ropes holding me down. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/8 "2006-01-03T18:00:56Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > \*::sigh:: > \* > > It’s hard typing clearly with these straps and ropes holding me down. hush up or I’ll put the gag back in. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/9 "2006-01-03T18:01:34Z")
If it helps, even though it was an accident, I thought GED was a good slight. Just one letter changes the whole air of the name. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/10 "2006-01-03T18:08:26Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > **Q.E.D.** has, through some chain of confused reasoning, decided that he has a personal conflict with me (he doesn’t) based upon off-board stuff. In the message in question, I was asking him to leave off-board matters off board. Why did I get a warning over a typo, when **Q.E.D.** didn’t get one for trying to dredge up some other problem he has with me in a completely inappropriate forum? You are a damn liar. Nothing I’ve said here has _anything_ to do with whatever has been said offboard. My beef with you in the now-closed **EC** pit thread was based solely on your disingenous attack on my post in the bug spray thread, wherein I asked you to defend your mischaracterization of my post. Or admit you were wrong. That is the sum total of any issues we have here. The only person who has brought up offboard issues is YOU. If you have some evidence to the contrary, then post it and stop whining about it. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/11 "2006-01-03T18:16:29Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > You are a damn liar. Nothing I’ve said here has _anything_ to do with whatever has been said offboard. My beef with you in the now-closed **EC** pit thread was based solely on your disingenous attack on my post in the bug spray thread, wherein I asked you to defend your mischaracterization of my post. Or admit you were wrong. That is the sum total of any issues we have here. The only person who has brought up offboard issues is YOU. If you have some evidence to the contrary, then post it and stop whining about it. As you well know, the evidence is in your _admission_ on the Super-Sekrit Place of Pure Evil and Wretched Comic-Book Style Villainy That Shall Not Be Named for Fear of the Cleansing and Righteous Wrath of the Moderators. You quite clearly posted there that you were throwing your (otherwise inexplicable) tantrum in the bug spray thread because you wanted to “whip” (in your words) someone from the SSPoPEaWCBSVTSNBNfFotCaRWotM. I’ll take a page from your Word-A-Day calendar and ask that you not _disingenuously_ claim otherwise again. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/12 "2006-01-03T18:23:55Z")
**Q.E.D.** and **Excalibre** could you puh-leeeeze take your fucking fight some where else? thanks, ever so. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/13 "2006-01-03T18:25:35Z")
Er… **Excalibre** , could you point to the place where \*\*Q.E.D. \*\* was dragging stuff in from off-board? Because all I see is this one comment, where Q.E.D. seems to be dragging stuff in from another _thread_, not board: > [@Q.E.D.](#): > > Tell you what. You still haven’t answered my questions in that other thread. You do that–honestly and rationally–and I’ll do the same here. Seems fair to me, no? and then a little later, where it seems like you understand it’s from another thread, > [@Excalibre](#): > > Why the fuck are you bringing up other matters here anyway? Either you can defend your claims, or you can’t. The fact that you’re playing some silly game instead of doing so is pretty conclusive evidence that you can’t. And then suddenly, > [@Excalibre](#): > > Since it has become clear you’re trying to drag a conflict from outside the boards - though whether that’s accurate to describe a fight that happened entirely inside your own head - I obviously won’t be discussing the matter further. Leave your pissy little tantrums about the bug spray thread in the bug spray thread, or better yet on the snark board, since you’ve made it clear that your recent hard-on for me is based on some imaginary conflict between you and some disembodied force of evil that I apparently represent. It really looks like you just dragged up the accusation of off-board stuff. Of course I am willing to acknowledge there may be more I haven’t seen. If so, please link to it. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/14 "2006-01-03T18:28:51Z")
> [@wring](#): > > **Q.E.D.** and **Excalibre** could you puh-leeeeze take your fucking fight some where else? thanks, ever so. 😕 You started THIS THREAD about them! ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/15 "2006-01-03T18:29:58Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > It really looks like you just dragged up the accusation of off-board stuff. Of course I am willing to acknowledge there may be more I haven’t seen. If so, please link to it. Like I said, he admitted on the SSPoPEaWCBSVTSNBNfFotCaRWotM that his temper tantrum in the bug-spray thread was just because he wanted to “whip” one of the people who hung out there. I can’t link to it from here, and I’m not really comfortable explaining it more thoroughly. He didn’t say so here, but he did say it off-board. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/16 "2006-01-03T18:32:18Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > As you well know, the evidence is in your _admission_ on the Super-Sekrit Place of Pure Evil and Wretched Comic-Book Style Villainy That Shall Not Be Named for Fear of the Cleansing and Righteous Wrath of the Moderators. You quite clearly posted there that you were throwing your (otherwise inexplicable) tantrum in the bug spray thread because you wanted to “whip” (in your words) someone from the SSPoPEaWCBSVTSNBNfFotCaRWotM. Uh no. I will not link to the post in question because that _will_ violate the rules, but I will put it here for all to see: > [@Me](#): > > Bah. So, I was wrong about the timspan; shit happens, world keeps spinning. It was never a GQ anyway–pure IMHO all the way. In any case, I was too busy whipping your boy [Excalibre](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6949821&postcount=142). I see he’s run off with his tail ‘tween his legs. At least I can admit when I’m wrong. Ol’ Ex is too much of a pussy, it would seem. _snerk_ Sure, I’m bringing up a conflict from HERE over to THERE, but that is not against the rules HERE, now is it? I admitted there, and I admit here, that it was petty and childish to gloat like that. But, it should be clear to anybodythat in no way is that an admission that my argument with you in bug spray thread is _because_ I “wanted to ‘whip’ someone from the SSPoPEaWCBSVTSNBNfFotCaRWotM.” Quite the opposite. Ok, I’ve said my piece. I’ll let the facts speak for themselves and not drag this out further. ---
**Author:** ![parthenokinesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cc9497/32.png) [@parthenokinesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parthenokinesis)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/17 "2006-01-03T18:33:04Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > Like I said, he admitted on the SSPoPEaWCBSVTSNBNfFotCaRWotM that his temper tantrum in the bug-spray thread was just because he wanted to “whip” one of the people who hung out there. I can’t link to it from here, and I’m not really comfortable explaining it more thoroughly. He didn’t say so here, but he did say it off-board. What fucking bug-spray thread? Is it from another message board? If so, **Q.E.D.** shut the fuck up. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/18 "2006-01-03T18:37:23Z")
> [@parthenokinesis](#): > > What fucking bug-spray thread? Is it from another message board? No. [This one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=351628). On THIS board. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/19 "2006-01-03T18:38:05Z")
I’m going to step out of this thread for the time being, since **Q.E.D.** seems to want to continue to discuss stuff that happened elsewhere. **Q.E.D.** , you win the internets. Congratulations. ---
**Author:** ![parthenokinesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cc9497/32.png) [@parthenokinesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parthenokinesis)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/20 "2006-01-03T18:42:58Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > No. [This one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=351628). On THIS board. Ah, sweet clarification. Thank you, **Q.E.D.** Please disregard my previous STFU. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245.md?page=2)