# Who (or what) is Logical\_Phallusy?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-or-what-is-logical_phallusy/102054>\
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**Created:** [April 5, 2002, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-or-what-is-logical_phallusy/102054 "2002-04-05T19:52:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anubis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Anubis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anubis)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-or-what-is-logical_phallusy/102054/1 "2002-04-05T19:52:49Z")

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In MPSIMS, there is a thread started by **Roger the Shrubber** entitled [Okay, we gotta try this game!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=95650). Yet the forum says that is was started by Logical\_Phallusy, and that name is not a link to anything. Is Logical\_Phallusy a username that is used whenever vBulletin messes up, or what? I searched for Logical\_Phallusy but nothing came up.

What’s the deal?

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**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-or-what-is-logical_phallusy/102054/2 "2002-04-05T20:11:41Z")

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IIRC, **Logical\_Phallusy** and **Roger the Shrubber** are one and the same. **LP** probably requested a name change after the thread was started, but the database kept the name of the thread starter as **LP** while all posts were retroactively changed to the new name. I think the name/member/post count list is somewhat loaded separtately, in order to be up-to-date, while the thread in question (already a year old) is labelled in the database with the date and name etc of when it began.

Or something like that. 🙂

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**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-or-what-is-logical_phallusy/102054/3 "2002-04-05T20:14:07Z")

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a year…six months…same difference 🙂

Note to self: look at the year AND month next time…LOL

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-or-what-is-logical_phallusy/102054/4 "2002-04-05T20:39:13Z")

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Don’t know the full details, except that Logical\_Phallusy is a username that was removed from our database for whatever reason. Possibly a name change as mnemosyne said.