Which usernames do you always read incorrectly?

does she play cricket?

Because of this thread I keep trying to read all usernames backwards.

Luckily mine is a palindrome…. nearly.

BoardinBob
Full Member

Never mind that, the real issue is the fact there’s you, Northwind, and some other 3rd rate tribute act, TheNorthwind on here

And I hope they take the bullet that I so richly deserve

Sirromj I always read as syrup, and then I think of pancakes. No idea why

Wally. I look at the thread and think ‘I didn’t write that’!

Ha ha, I’m a bit like Watty – if I read a post by Aidy I also think ‘I didn’t write that’. Glad it’s not just me

Cougar and Cougar2.

Always*getting those cheeky scamps mixed up.

*by which I mean in the last two minutes.

Not so much read incorrectly more just mix them up, DrP and DrJ,

Horatiofluffnavel.

There’s others too, but that’s the only one I can remember at the moment.

I remember the rush to register a forum name after the great Christmas hack and the period of changing your username to match the point you were making on the thread.

Happy days

I didn’t realise user-names here were case sensitive – are they?

Erm..

I remember the rush to register a forum name after the great Christmas hack and the period of changing your username to match the point you were making on the thread.

*sigh* I have clear memories of that, and I still wish I’d stuck with the username that I’d changed to during that time. I’m rather bored with the one I stuck with, in fact I was bored with it then, but there were some issues using different name, so I stuck with one that seemed to work better, wish I hadn’t now. *shrugs*

the period of changing your username to match the point you were making on the thread.

I remember a few accounts that several people knew the password for.

Oh what fun we they had.

Sirromj.

Always makes me think of Ron Jeremy.

rOcKeTdOgFull Member
I didn’t realise user-names here were case sensitive – are they?
Erm..

I meant relative to log-in names. There was, I’m pretty sure, a time when however you capitalised your user name when you logged in was your display name. That’s no longer the case.  ie: if I log in as ‘badlywireddog’ or ‘bADlywIrEdDog’ my log-in will still work just fine, but my display name on the forum is still BadlyWiredDog. Not that it’s very important, but there you go. It’s good to be clear…

So, even though I just logged out and logged back in again using ‘bADlywIrEdDog’ as my user name… I am still BadlyWiredDog 🙂

Any thread title with SpaceX in it, reads as SpanDex to me.

Spandex launched a massive into space yesterday.

It’s very stretchy after all.

@CountZero

I thought you were a Muppet ?

Only Kidding….. 😉

maccruiskeen Full Member
there was a period when folk could change their display name for their account completely l, including using other forum users names as their display name. Much to the hair-pulling frustration of the mods and a bit of banhammer swinging

Early on (I first found this place in 2002) while you could log onto the web site the forum was completely separate and there was just a free-text box where you could enter a name whenever you posted to a thread. The web site would remember the last name you used so most people just stayed with one name, but a few were more mischievous. You certainly had to keep an eye out for any unusual links in posts that might have been made by dan or beer using pseudonyms.

Anagallis arvensis…..

I assume he drives a Toyota estate

You assume incorrectly!

As a mod once said it’s just roadiemtber re registered with a smart arsed botanical name after being banned?.

Although I have often wondered if arvensis means something different in Japanese (is that where Toyota are from). Means field or summit in Latin

Salad dodger I always firstly imagine as spritely full of energy young man weaving between lines of lettuce on his bike while other salad flies through the air at then. Then the name clicks and transforms the image to an unshaven overweight middle aged man in a dimly lit room with a large steak on a plate in front of them. I have no idea if either image are close to the truth or not!

I thought you were a Muppet ?

Only Kidding….. 😉

I believe there’s a few who think so, but back on topic, I don’t think there are any I read incorrectly, I’ve always had good reading comprehension, I learned to read very young, and it served me particularly well when I started working in print and publishing – it’s a major prerequisite if you’re designing books and marking up manuscripts and proofreading.

Anything that involves figures or maths, on the other hand…

I do wish regular emojis would work, I can’t always find an appropriate one from my online resource.

Dick Raper/Rick Draper

Sorry/not sorry

ahsat

To make things worse, I’ve only just noticed that this isn’t “asshat”. Sorry, ahsat.

I did read once that if a word had the right start letter and the right end letter, you could mix up all the stuff in the middle and your brain didn’t crae much.

Not so much read incorrectly more just mix them up, DrP and DrJ,

To me they were both DrPJ… online purveyor of quality sleepwear.

I nearly chose PennyFarting for my user name, but Bunnyhop was more mtb

I can’t tell you how I would have misread the first choice.

Esselgruntfuttock. So much so that I’m still not sure I’ve processed it right.

TBH honest I always wonder if CountZero is actually hacker sat in the dark only illuminated by the scrolling numbers on his multitude of monitors as he’s coding  ice 🙂

ampthill –  I read ant hill every time

He has a mob too!

perchypanther
Free Member
Cougar and Cougar2.

Always*getting those cheeky scamps mixed up.

*by which I mean in the last two minutes

I was going to start a thread on this, had cougar had to set up a second account due to log in issues or something?

I is confuzzled!

I is confuzzled!

Twogar

I’ve remembered now how the capitalisation quirk is happening (for user accounts that are of the capitalisation quirk vintage)

For me my user / display names display differently between the forum and comments on the front page. So if I comment on a front page story my username displays as I wrote it when I first created the account – ‘MacCruiskeen’, but from the start it has always displayed as ‘maccruiskeen’ on the forum and on my profile.

Funkmasterp used to read as funk-ma-sterp in my head until it clicked… ?

I always get funkmaster twerp for some reason ?

Anyone else see Nobber-in-the-fridge?

Another one @donslow – is don not fast – or is he mr d onslow?

That one always gets me too…

thanks for the mention, suse pic…

Dan

There’s a boat I pass semi frequently, I think cougar is a sentient boat.

hightensionline  is “high tennis online”, which clearly makes no sense, except to my brain.

tthew

Is that T Thew? or T the W? or Thew with an additional silent T?

Ive met him a few times and clarified all this, but then promptly forgot.

susepic = Susy Pic

hightensionline  is “high tennis online”, which clearly makes no sense, except to my brain.

I always see “high tension online”

tthew

Is that T Thew? or T the W? or Thew with an additional silent T?

Nah, it’s definitely “the thew”

I always see “high tension online”

Yeah, it was the idea in all honesty.

I think someone got the actual reference once. It’s not very cryptic!