# You can call me ellen-oh, or you can call me noem
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-call-me-ellen-oh-or-you-can-call-me-noem/110564
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [May 23, 2002, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-call-me-ellen-oh-or-you-can-call-me-noem/110564 "2002-05-23T22:02:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2002, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-call-me-ellen-oh-or-you-can-call-me-noem/110564/1 "2002-05-23T22:02:52Z")
Or you can even call me el-no. But not eye-no, nor in-oh, nor eye-en-oh.
l understand that this is due to fonts. l don’t take any of this personaIIy, since **lno** by itseIf over on the Ieft side of the screen aImost Iooks Iike a sans-serif version of **Ino**. What confuses me, though, is when peopIe quote me, but stiII have
> [@](#):
>
> _OriginaIIy posted by Ino_
in their post. ls the vBuIIetin software pIotting against me? TruIy, a diIemma.
lt makes me wonder if this problem is pureIy specific to me. Does this happen to other peopIe on a daiIy basis, where peopIe confuse I and l? lf so, poor **UkuIeIe lke** shouId be apopIetic with rage.
Or is this a gueriIIa movement to get me to change back to **LNO**? l won’t, and you can’t make me. l’m much too Iazy to return to my originaI name. Not gonna happen.
This doesn’t quite make my rage burn with the fires of a miIIion suns, nor even simmer with the rage of overcooked pasta. l’ve resigned myseIf to the fact that l’ll have to accept this.
…
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BUT IT’S AN L! L L L L L L L L L!
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### Author:  [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2002, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-call-me-ellen-oh-or-you-can-call-me-noem/110564/2 "2002-05-23T22:08:01Z")
At least it’s only your **handle**. I’ve got online people forever calling me **LANNA**.
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### Author:  [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2002, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-call-me-ellen-oh-or-you-can-call-me-noem/110564/3 "2002-05-23T22:10:39Z")
Thats truly baffIing. L dont have any idea how something Iike that couId’ve happened.
_Iooks around_
(god, this is awfuI.)
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### Author:  [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2002, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-call-me-ellen-oh-or-you-can-call-me-noem/110564/4 "2002-05-23T22:17:55Z")
See how much this flusters me? I said l’ll when I meant to say l’II.
I hate you all.
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2002, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-call-me-ellen-oh-or-you-can-call-me-noem/110564/5 "2002-05-23T22:52:35Z")
Note:
puNHa
I even go by this in chat now (long-ish story). N, then H. No “the” in my name. no “iamapauanahaha”.
iampunha. very simple. i-am-pun-ha. If I ever change it, it’ll be to simply punha, at which point **Jonathan Chance** and all you other stringent folks (;)) can drop the apostrophe:)
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2002, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-call-me-ellen-oh-or-you-can-call-me-noem/110564/6 "2002-05-23T23:07:53Z")
What’s happening is some poor sod has copied and pasted your comment into a reply box, instead of hitting the quote button, and then, in a feat of pure, anadulterated FRAUD, manually inserts the
_Originally posted by_
line, but mangles your name when he types it in.
You see, folks, this is what happens when you try to be clever. The world would be better off if we were all dumb.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2002, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-call-me-ellen-oh-or-you-can-call-me-noem/110564/7 "2002-05-23T23:10:43Z")
What a baby.
Try explaining why people see “Bryan” and think (and write) “Brian”.
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### Author:  [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2002, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-call-me-ellen-oh-or-you-can-call-me-noem/110564/8 "2002-05-23T23:18:10Z")
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You can be my bodyguard
And I can be your long lost bro’
And I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me ellen-oh!
\*
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2002, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-call-me-ellen-oh-or-you-can-call-me-noem/110564/9 "2002-05-23T23:20:50Z")
You guys have weird user names. You’re evil. ALL OF YOU!!!
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### Author:  [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2002, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-call-me-ellen-oh-or-you-can-call-me-noem/110564/10 "2002-05-23T23:29:26Z")
Tell the story! Tell the story of the name! Go on Uncle lno!
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2002, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-call-me-ellen-oh-or-you-can-call-me-noem/110564/11 "2002-05-23T23:43:17Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Bryan Ekers \*
> What a baby.
>
> Try explaining why people see “Bryan” and think (and write) “Brian”.
Similar problem to yours. My middle name is a family name from, oh, a few hundred years or so, from about the 1750s to the early 1900s. It is a variation on Brian, and every year the uncle of mine (father’s side, which is the same as the side the name’s on) who does the calender messes up my middle name, and for YEARS we would write and say “here is how you spell my middle name.”
We just plumb fucking gave up because every year he fucked it up.
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### Author:  [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2002, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-call-me-ellen-oh-or-you-can-call-me-noem/110564/12 "2002-05-23T23:45:42Z")
Can’t you just change the capitalization when you log in, instead of going through the hassle of an official name change? I thought we could do that…we _used_ to be able to do that…didn’t we?
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### Author:  [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2002, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-call-me-ellen-oh-or-you-can-call-me-noem/110564/13 "2002-05-23T23:46:53Z")
Hmm…well, I guess not.
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### Author:  [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2002, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-call-me-ellen-oh-or-you-can-call-me-noem/110564/14 "2002-05-23T23:47:03Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by iampunha \*
> \*\*Note:
>
> puNHa
>
> I even go by this in chat now (long-ish story). N, then H. No “the” in my name. no “iamapauanahaha”.
>
> iampunha. very simple. i-am-pun-ha. If I ever change it, it’ll be to simply punha, at which point Jonathan Chance and all you other stringent folks (;)) can drop the apostrophe:) \*\*
Strangely, I “hear” that as i-am-punya. As if it were Portuguese.
Which is **very** strange, as I don’t even speak Portuguese!
jayjay
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2002, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-call-me-ellen-oh-or-you-can-call-me-noem/110564/15 "2002-05-23T23:50:33Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \*
> \*\*You guys have weird user names. You’re evil. ALL OF YOU!!! \*\*
Almost fergot.
I may have a weird username that even moderators can’t spell, but…
I’m allowed to post on the patriarch message board;)
::not running away. Already out of thr–::
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### Author:  [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2002, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-call-me-ellen-oh-or-you-can-call-me-noem/110564/16 "2002-05-23T23:50:52Z")
For those who missed the [first telling of the story](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=893012#post893012), and missed the [second telling of the story](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1483072#post1483072), and somehow also missed the [third telling of the story](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1583002#post1583002) …
…the story’s told at any of those links. Piece together all of it, and you’ll get it.
It really is funny. Honestly.
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### Author:  [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2002, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-call-me-ellen-oh-or-you-can-call-me-noem/110564/17 "2002-05-23T23:57:26Z")
Yay the story! (It’s better told in real time)
Lo! New Olf!
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### Author:  [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2002, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-call-me-ellen-oh-or-you-can-call-me-noem/110564/18 "2002-05-24T00:28:18Z")
While we’re on minor (or major) username annoyances here, I’d like to say that my username is **NOT** associated in any way with flaming people or being flamed! It does not have anything to do with drumming, either. In case you missed the explanation, it is given here.
**lno** , how’s about this for a mnemonic?
**L** emons, **N** ot **O** ranges
(though I did like the story, by the way 🙂 )
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2002, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-call-me-ellen-oh-or-you-can-call-me-noem/110564/19 "2002-05-24T00:40:01Z")
Why aren’t you allowed to post on Patriarch?
BTW, what is the POINT of your username? It’s a booger one! You’re a booger!
PPPPHHHHBBBLLLLTTT!!!
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### Author:  [@The\_Ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Ryan)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2002, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-call-me-ellen-oh-or-you-can-call-me-noem/110564/20 "2002-05-24T00:51:06Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Bryan Ekers \*
> \*\*What a baby.
>
> Try explaining why people see “Bryan” and think (and write) “Brian”. \*\*
You think people calling **you** “Brian” is strange?
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