# Wookinpanub
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookinpanub/719445
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 7, 2015, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookinpanub/719445 "2015-05-07T03:24:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Billy-o](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy-o)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2015, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookinpanub/719445/1 "2015-05-07T03:24:12Z")
WOOKINPANUB, I’ve been reading your posts here for years, and every single time, my brain at first reads your username as WOOKIEE IN A PUB. Every. Time. And I’m not even a drug user (yet).
Anyway, I just want to say that a Wookiee in a pub is a great mental image, and is probably where I would expect to find an actual Wookiee.
(And yes, I’m old enough to understand where your username really comes from, which makes my inevitable brain fart on reading your name even more inexplicable 🙂 ).
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2015, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookinpanub/719445/2 "2015-05-07T04:24:41Z")
Yep. I always read her username as ‘WOOKIE IN A PUB’ too.
But then, every time I see **scumpup** I think, ‘Scumping up, sir!’
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2015, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookinpanub/719445/3 "2015-05-07T08:09:23Z")
I misread **engineer\_comp\_geek** as **engineer\_comp\_jerk** for I don’t know how long, and I honestly don’t know why. I don’t dislike the poster. I’ve _never_ disliked the poster. My brain just latched onto something and wouldn’t let go.
I hesitate to imagine what some people have done to **Derleth** in their minds.
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2015, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookinpanub/719445/4 "2015-05-07T08:31:45Z")
> [@Derleth](#):
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> I hesitate to imagine what some people have done to **Derleth** in their minds.
Maybe it all depends on familiarity. No doubt some here know about the [**Derleth**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Derleth) you’ve (apparently) named yourself after. Others, who have never seen the name, might come up with all kinds of imaginative explanations.
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### Author:  [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2015, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookinpanub/719445/5 "2015-05-07T09:33:59Z")
Same here. I always read it as WOOKIE IN A PUB.
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### Author:  [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2015, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookinpanub/719445/6 "2015-05-07T12:04:47Z")
Where does her username come from?
I’ve read it usually as Wookiee Panub, kinda like a scene with a bunch of characters heatedly debating and someone says, “let the Wookiee, Panub, speak!”
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2015, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookinpanub/719445/7 "2015-05-07T12:09:13Z")
For some reason I always read it as Workin’ In A Pub, but then I misread most usernames and thread titles.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2015, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookinpanub/719445/8 "2015-05-07T12:14:08Z")
> [@Derleth](#):
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> I misread **engineer\_comp\_geek** as **engineer\_comp\_jerk** for I don’t know how long, and I honestly don’t know why. I don’t dislike the poster. I’ve _never_ disliked the poster. My brain just latched onto something and wouldn’t let go.
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> I hesitate to imagine what some people have done to **Derleth** in their minds.
I don’t do anything to it – I just think you’re August Derleth, back from the dead and writing Lovecraftian horror with better insight now.
The one I keep misreading is **boytyperanman** , which always looks like **bootypiranha** to me
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2015, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookinpanub/719445/9 "2015-05-07T12:50:14Z")
Well heck, I never thought I’d ever see a thread about little old me (unless it was in the pit, which I would not like). Thanks for thinking of me, **Bill-o!** 🙂
The first time someone told me they read my name as you do I thought it was adorable and \*almost wished \*that’s what it meant. For anyone who is wondering why / irritated by the fact that it’s in caps, I am not yelling at you or being an attention whore. When I signed up years ago I was at work where the software I used required the use of caps. I really didn’t notice it was all in caps until I was done and was going to ask to change it but thought it kind of mirrored Buckwheat’s sort of loud and hapless delivery. Not everyone has been enamored of my name; someone - I can’t recall who- told me they hated it and it made them borderline sick :eek:
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### Author:  [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2015, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookinpanub/719445/10 "2015-05-07T13:14:04Z")
> [@Billy-o](#):
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> (And yes, I’m old enough to understand where your username really comes from, which makes my inevitable brain fart on reading your name even more inexplicable 🙂 ).
How can any image override the original? I smile just picturing Eddie Murphy with that string of question marks underneath! 🙂
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2015, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookinpanub/719445/11 "2015-05-07T13:33:33Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> The one I keep misreading is **boytyperanman** , which always looks like **bootypiranha** to me
That’s [Brian Boitano](http://www.technologytell.com/entertainment/files/2013/12/reg_600.south_.cm_.7812.jpg), from South Park because it’s really the only place I’ve heard the name.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2015, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookinpanub/719445/12 "2015-05-07T13:37:55Z")
> [@zweisamkeit](#):
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> Where does her username come from?
[Buckwheat sings](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jsk1A0tsSc)
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2015, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookinpanub/719445/13 "2015-05-07T14:09:53Z")
Why is she always shouting her name?
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### Author:  [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookinpanub/719445/14 "2015-05-07T14:29:06Z")
Unce, Tice, Fee Times a Mady.
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2015, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookinpanub/719445/15 "2015-05-07T14:35:19Z")
> [@jz78817](#):
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> Unce, Tice, Fee Times a Mady.
Fee Times a Mady was a close second 😃
[QUOTE=TriPolar]
Why is she always shouting her name?
[/QUOTE]
Are you being a wiseguy or did you not see my explanation? :dubious:
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2015, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookinpanub/719445/16 "2015-05-07T14:38:50Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#):
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> Are you being a wiseguy or did you not see my explanation? :dubious:
Sorry, missed that.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2015, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookinpanub/719445/17 "2015-05-07T14:45:20Z")
I probably shouldn’t open the Buckwheat sings YouTube right now. I remember the SNL character but can you tell me just what he’s mispronouncing… Look in a pub? I want to give your username all the respect it deserves!!!
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### Author:  [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookinpanub/719445/18 "2015-05-07T14:49:06Z")
So…you don’t work in a pub?
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### Author:  [@JuliaSqueezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JuliaSqueezer)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookinpanub/719445/19 "2015-05-07T14:58:44Z")
> [@lieu](#):
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> I probably shouldn’t open the Buckwheat sings YouTube right now. I remember the SNL character but can you tell me just what he’s mispronouncing… Look in a pub? I want to give your username all the respect it deserves!!!
If I remember correctly, it’s “lookin’ for love…”
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2015, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wookinpanub/719445/20 "2015-05-07T15:01:20Z")
> [@lieu](#):
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> I probably shouldn’t open the Buckwheat sings YouTube right now. I remember the SNL character but can you tell me just what he’s mispronouncing… Look in a pub? I want to give your username all the respect it deserves!!!
He’s singing “Lookin’ for love (in all the wrong places”.
[QUOTE=TriPolar]
Sorry, missed that.
[/QUOTE]
Dats OHHH TAY;)
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