# Who was that person using my name? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 2, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-that-person-using-my-name/179056 "2003-06-02T03:15:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [June 2, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-that-person-using-my-name/179056/1 "2003-06-02T03:15:53Z")
Sometimes, when checking a linked thread (or looking for a post to link to), I’ll come across a post of my own that reads like a completely different person to me. I’ll wonder: _What was I thinking/feeling/drinking when I wrote that?_ Not always embarrassing stuff, just things said that I wonder about now. And I haven’t even been here a year! What does it feel like to read a 3 or 4 year old post of yours? In GD threads, does your position ever change? In Cafe or MPSIMS, does your taste in things change? In the Pit, are you calmer? Angrier? More pithy? A jokester now and not then (or vice versa)? Open to anyone, btw, not just long timers. I look forward to your input. Some certain Dopers™ more than others 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-that-person-using-my-name/179056/2 "2003-06-02T03:19:40Z")
I look back… and hope to God nobody read ANYTHING I wrote the first few months I was here. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-that-person-using-my-name/179056/3 "2003-06-02T03:31:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by clayton\_e \* > \*\*I look back… and hope to God nobody read ANYTHING I wrote the first few months I was here. \*\* [Like this ?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1015337#post1015337) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-that-person-using-my-name/179056/4 "2003-06-02T05:11:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by clayton\_e \* > \*\*I look back… and hope to God nobody read ANYTHING I wrote the first few months I was here. \*\* I don’t look back, but I have some embarrassing recollections. Hi, NCB! ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-that-person-using-my-name/179056/5 "2003-06-02T05:35:10Z")
Not sure I look back all that often… but there are things I really regret posting. (actually, there are a LOT of examples of such…) Hey, **NCB**! Hope you’re doing well. 🙂 F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-that-person-using-my-name/179056/6 "2003-06-02T05:37:38Z")
Wait till you’ve been around long enough to dig up stuff you hurled out onto the net’s public view a decade ago. It’s fun! ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-that-person-using-my-name/179056/7 "2003-06-02T05:39:33Z")
I figure you’re not asking me, but I’ll answer anyway. 😛 I used to be an evangelical Christian when I was first here, so that’s changed my GD perspectives a bit. My taste in things has been fairly consistent, I’d imagine – I’ve never been big on media and pop culture, with a few fairly consistent exceptions. I’m significantly meaner and more snarky in the Pit than I was in the past. I find it rather humorous that it appears that the best way to scare a Doper is often to say that you’re going to read all their old posts. I’m off to read all your old posts now, **NoClueBoy, vivalostwages** and **clayton\_e**. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-that-person-using-my-name/179056/8 "2003-06-02T06:50:53Z")
As I just mentioned in another thread, when I looked back at my first posts, I wanted to Pit myself for being such a putz. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-that-person-using-my-name/179056/9 "2003-06-02T07:26:43Z")
You see, there’s a much easier way. One of the very first things I did when I got here was to Pit myself. I managed to beat the rush that followed. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-that-person-using-my-name/179056/10 "2003-06-02T07:43:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Drastic \* > \*\*Wait till you’ve been around long enough to dig up stuff you hurled out onto the net’s public view a decade ago. It’s fun! \*\* Hasn’t been a decade for me, yet, but god it will be in like 3 years! Ahhh! I’m going to have to bury some embarassing stuff. And find a way to off Google. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2003, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-that-person-using-my-name/179056/11 "2003-06-02T11:24:39Z")
Hi back at ya, all you “Hi” sayers! 🙂 It was a GD thread that got me to sign up in the first place, but I rarely post in GD anymore. So many debates are just arguments, esp if I’m involved. And those old ENT threads in Cafe? Who ARE these people? ---
**Author:** ![kitarak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kitarak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitarak)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-that-person-using-my-name/179056/12 "2003-06-02T12:00:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GMRyujin \* > \*\*Hasn’t been a decade for me, yet, but god it will be in like 3 years! Ahhh! I’m going to have to bury some embarassing stuff. And find a way to off Google. \*\* Care to join forces on that? Fortunately google seems to have missed a fair number of my earlier posts, from the days when I used AOL, but there are still enough left to embarass me. While I wasn’t as bad as the stereotypical AOL kid, I was pretty bratty and stuck up. My running defence is that evil gnomes hacked into google and changed all my old posts to make me look bad. Yes, gnomes. That’s it… absolutely. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-that-person-using-my-name/179056/13 "2003-06-02T12:32:08Z")
Personally, I’m less eloquent, funny and intelligent IRL than I appear on these boards 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-that-person-using-my-name/179056/14 "2003-06-03T03:05:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kitarak \* > **Care to join forces on that?** Love to, but the [bloody pigeons](http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html) are always one step ahead of me. Curse you, pigeons! Curse your black souls! In all seriousness…wow, I’ve been an internet dork a long time. And I hope some of the stuff I’ve put up died a peaceful death… ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-that-person-using-my-name/179056/15 "2003-06-03T05:55:00Z")
Almost all my posts make me quirk an eyebrow when reading over them. 'Course, it doesn’t help that most of the people I converse with do the same. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-that-person-using-my-name/179056/16 "2003-06-03T15:10:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \* > \*\*… > And those old ENT threads in Cafe? Who ARE these people? \*\* Bunch of no-life loser geeks, I should imagine. Heck, I don’t even know what ENT stands for! Really! Must be some dork thing for which I am far too cool. hi there, by the way. I never go back to read my posts from months of olde, because I remember what I wrote, and most of it embarrasses me. Hell, what I wrote five minutes ago embarrasses. I haven’t been here long enough to have changed my political views, personal beliefs, etc. - I just tend to post stupid shit without previewing, and then regret it. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-that-person-using-my-name/179056/17 "2003-06-03T18:04:55Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Kn_ckers \* > \*\*Bunch of no-life loser geeks, I should imagine. > Heck, I don’t even know what ENT stands for! Really! Must be some dork thing for which I am far too cool. > SNIP \*\* Ents are those walking talking tree things in LOTR, don’t’cha’know. – **viva, Unrepentant FanGirl** ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-that-person-using-my-name/179056/18 "2003-06-03T18:39:37Z")
I thought they were those little bugs that build hills and come walking through the kitchen in a great long line… Oh, right, that’s _ants_. Kn(Really not a geek! Honest!)ckers ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-that-person-using-my-name/179056/19 "2003-06-03T18:59:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by clayton\_e \* > \*\*I look back… and hope to God nobody read ANYTHING I wrote the first few months I was here. \*\* I was going to say “Don’t worry; no-one ever reads your first 1000 posts.” but there wouldn’t be much point, would there? > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Troy Maclure_As I just mentioned in another thread, when I looked back at my first posts, I wanted to Pit myself for being such a putz. **Mis Magic 8 Ball** did this quite impressively in MPSIMS recently. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-that-person-using-my-name/179056/20 "2003-06-03T19:00:17Z")
I thought ants were my parent’s sisters! Oh, right, that’s _aunts_. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-that-person-using-my-name/179056.md?page=2)