Or even worse. You see something like this “95 tibstanglewood,” and know the writer actually meant Tiburon.
And hell, I suppose it comes with the territory, but I’m pretty sure I couls list over 100 banned names from memory.
edited to fix linky loo (ahh, the perqs of a moderator)
I’d say the first time you are Pitted is a rite of passage 'round these parts.
Esprix
WAAAAHHH!! I didn’t make the list!!!
Not quite the same, but my time in #straightdope has gotten me thinking about wanting to SAY things like “/me is hungry” and just letting the…air?..fill in the appropriate username!
When you argue with a prof over the origin of “OK” and send him the straightdope article the next day!
When you type an email and put people’s name in bold (if you’re using a program that allows it)
You recite the details of each news story as they appear on the 6:00 to your SO.
Banned Names - that’d be a good name for a rock & roll band. 
Or maybe Banned Members.
I’ve actually asked people for cites when they say ridiculous stuff, and they give me the weirdest looks until I say “Em, I mean, do you have proof?”…
Sorry… you shouldn’t feel bad. Lots of people didn’t. Not cause I don’t love you, or remember you… It was a wierd exercise in free associtation. Much of the list is just strings of "This name or person makes causes me to think of this other name or person…"It was interesting to look back and see which names came up. A lot of posters that everybody knows aren’t on there. So don’t feel bad.
I mean, heck, Cecil didn’t come up till #32. 
You post you 1000th post in a thread about recognizing your addiction to the Straight Dope.
bows
I better do just one more search to see if anyone has replied yet.
…when you’re mildly pissed off because you didn’t make wolfstu’s list…
You’ve signed more than 3 checks using your username.
Your dog left you for some dude with a Frisbee…
3 days later you notice that your girlfriend must have tagged along!
A friend asks you how things are going on the Straight Dope.
You wonder how you come across to other dopers.
You find yourself trying to post a reply to an item on a news page.
You find a vanity search on Straight Dope much more interesting than one on Google.
When the server goes down for maintenance at 2:59 AM you find something interesting to pass the time until 3:59 AM.
: when you would willing give up the following to read here
*sleep
*meals
*work
*sex
* tv
*going out with your friends.
Every time you see or hear an unusual combination of words, at least one of which is of a sexual or scatological nature, you’d like to nominate it as a possible band name.
When you do at least two vanity searches a day. (Note to admins: I do them in the wee hours of the morning and late at night.)
When you go to the computer lab between classes to check some threads.
When most of your entire social life revolves around Dopefests.
When you invoke Godwin’s Law in an argument with your spouse.
When you feel compelled to start MPSIMS threads every time your kid does something significant.
Robin
Oh, and one more…
When you get an ego rush from being in wolfstu’s list.
Robin
You come to arguments well armed.
You don’t suffer fools lightly.
You say Og.
You have dreams that you are posting, and you wake up and rush to the computer to see if you actually did post, or it was just a dream.
Whilst speaking to a live, warm human body, you imagine yourself putting ‘’ ‘’ around the funny parts of a story just to get your point across.
Tripler
And you imagine previewing before you “submit” said verbal story.
[sub] One more thing. . .[/sub]
And, you keep kicking yourself in the ass because you seem to be one day and a dollar short of meeting Dopers in towns you visit, when they post that they are actually in the town you just left the day before.
Tripler
Cite? That South Dakota/Rapid City thread. :mad:
You write a letter to a friend…and draw smilies on the envelope.
You get banned and worry yourself sick that the mods won’t accept your apology…phew!..that was close!