# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**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 4, 2006, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/41 "2006-01-04T01:01:44Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Well sure, but you’re lucky if you even get close to an eighth grade level after 13 years of **puplic** schooling (K-12) > > ;j See? ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/42 "2006-01-04T01:16:30Z")
**’mika** **NCB** There are still people around who call me **Mo** on occassion. I address **GaWd** as Sam, because…well, because that’s his name and he doesn’t seem to mind. I suppose what I’m saying is it seems to be more a “spirit of the law” thing than a “letter of the law thing.” If that makes sense. If changing the user name is intended in a derogatory manner, then it certainly makes sense the rule should be observed, but if **Excalibre** is being sincere, then no malicious intent was meant. So, yeah…ruling please? ---
**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 4, 2006, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/43 "2006-01-04T01:18:27Z")
You should hear some of the names **Mo** ’s called me… IN BED! ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/44 "2006-01-04T01:20:06Z")
Tch. No rack for you tonight, toad boy. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/45 "2006-01-04T01:24:04Z")
> [@wring](#): > > **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: Okay, so now I know your first name, I have this mental picture of Little Annie Fanny, an Association earworm tunneling through my brain, and you expect me to take you seriously? 😉 ---
**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 4, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/46 "2006-01-04T01:25:09Z")
> [@Maureen](#): > > If changing the user name is intended in a derogatory manner, then it certainly makes sense the rule should be observed, but if **Excalibre** is being sincere, then no malicious intent was meant. If it clarifies anything for anyone, I’d like to mention that the mangled form of my username in question has been used as invective on the “boards we do not discuss” for some time, now. I’m willing to give the “accident” excuse the benefit of the doubt, however; I can see how it could have simply been an oversight. It’s just not worth getting overheated about. If he did it on purpose, it’s just childish. If not, then no harm done. ---
**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 4, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/47 "2006-01-04T01:25:09Z")
She calls me Toad Boy because of my tongue. And because I can squirt blood out of my eyes. And because I look like a toad a little bit. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/48 "2006-01-04T02:06:07Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > You should hear some of the names **Mo** ’s called me… > > IN BED! Sounds like a fortune cookie. “You will make lots of money this year.” “In bed.” ---
**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 4, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245/49 "2006-01-04T02:29:08Z")
Looks like the warning has been [rescinded](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6959115&postcount=91), so all’s well that ends well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-a-name/338245.md?page=2)