Usernames you've misread

[Trebuchet]

Note to self: Go do some work on the treebucket tomorrow! Hurling Season approacheth.

[Fazor]

... would a treebucket be a bucket made from trees -- which is just a wooden bucket, and thus not very exciting -- or a bucket for carrying trees -- which would have to be either huge, or magical?

I think most of the ones that I misread have already been mentioned -- RAF_Black(F)Ace the most often. I know when I first joined, other new people would confuse my name with Fraser . . . which was a little embarrassing since when I joined, I wasn't aware of the name or the fact that he was one of the co-owners. I know "trolls" often intentionally mimic those names. But I've been using "Fazor" since the early 90's . . . back in the direct-dial BBS days.

[Trebuchet]

... would a treebucket be a bucket made from trees -- which is just a wooden bucket, and thus not very exciting -- or a bucket for carrying trees -- which would have to be either huge, or magical?

Certainly all of mine are made from trees! Or at least, mostly from trees. And they often have a bucket on the short end, which you fill with rocks or other heavy stuff!

[Gillianren]

... would a treebucket be a bucket made from trees -- which is just a wooden bucket, and thus not very exciting -- or a bucket for carrying trees -- which would have to be either huge, or magical?

Or for very small trees. At my old apartment, there was a pretty standard plastic bucket that someone had thrown into the pond behind our building; it had a palm tree growing out of it.

[HenrikOlsen]

I know there was discussion on wikipedia claiming that the redirect of Fraser Cain (which is his real name) to Universe Today was trying to leech off Frasier Crane the sitcom character for hits.

[HenrikOlsen]

Or for very small trees. At my old apartment, there was a pretty standard plastic bucket that someone had thrown into the pond behind our building; it had a palm tree growing out of it.

I have three treebuckets on my balcony at the moment, with two small apple trees in each. The fourth isn't a treebucket as it has a vine and a raspberry bush growing in it instead.

[slang]

As Nicholas isn't active, it doesn't happen the other way around.

No wishlists intended for the St. sent to you then? :-)

[slang]

I have three treebuckets [...]

I keep reading Treebucket as Threebucket. Misread usernames that I've misread...

<mind warps> "The Bouquet-residence, Ent of the house speaking!".

[Noclevername]

<mind warps>

I have to admit I misread this as well.

"It's just a jump to the left..."

[KaiYeves]

... would a treebucket be a bucket made from trees -- which is just a wooden bucket, and thus not very exciting -- or a bucket for carrying trees -- which would have to be either huge, or magical?

Maybe a bucket intended to be hung from the branches of a tree?

[LookingSkyward]

I was thinking sugar maple sap tap collector bucket :>

[HenrikOlsen]

Maybe a bucket intended to be hung from the branches of a tree?

Treebuckets. (link to page with image)

ETA: Two minds, one thought.

[LookingSkyward]

Henrik, once is an innocuous coincidence. But if you find substantial evidence of thinking like me, seek help :>

[Nicolas]

No wishlists intended for the St. sent to you then? :-)

It blew the fuse on my spam filter last december.

[Ara Pacis]

re OP, I also sometimes mistake cjl for cil, short for Cecilia. Luckily, my heart remains unbroken and my confidence unshaken.

[mutleyeng]

slight tangent, but related.
when looking at the forum index, you can get some amusing combinations of partial thread titles followed by last poster username.
there have been some interesting "Could the universe be...." combinations couple of nights ago it was randy, and been grey and strange.

well, it made me laff

[mike alexander]

I once misread Paul Beardsley as Annette Funicello. I've never eaten one of those brownies again.

[Paul Beardsley]

I once misread Paul Beardsley as Annette Funicello. I've never eaten one of those brownies again.

This is far more common than people think. Once when I turned up for a job interview, the interviewer glanced at my CV*, grinned, and started singing, "M-I-C, K-E-Y, M-O-U..." then reddened as he realised his mistake.

Ironically I only got the job because they wanted a tall person called Paul.

*Resume in the US

[LookingSkyward]

LOL

[Noclevername]

This is far more common than people think. Once when I turned up for a job interview, the interviewer glanced at my CV*, grinned, and started singing, "M-I-C, K-E-Y, M-O-U..." then reddened as he realised his mistake.

Ironically I only got the job because they wanted a tall person called Paul.

*Resume in the US

Wow, what a silly mistake to make! Incidentally, are you ever doing another movie with Frankie Avalon?

[Swift]

Frankie Avalon was the most cautious man who ever lived.

He never worked without Annette.

[Noclevername]

*groan*

[Gillianren]

Ironically I only got the job because they wanted a tall person called Paul.

If you get that song stuck in my head today, I may turn out to be the mysterious Punch Beardsley. And then I will tell you who wrote that song and what substantially more famous song they wrote, and I will be avenged.

[Trebuchet]

If you get that song stuck in my head today, I may turn out to be the mysterious Punch Beardsley. And then I will tell you who wrote that song and what substantially more famous song they wrote, and I will be avenged.

Thanks a bunch! Every time somebody mentions an earworm, it starts going through my head, only to be followed quickly by The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Now I'm going to have that all day.

[KaiYeves]

Thanks a bunch! Every time somebody mentions an earworm, it starts going through my head, only to be followed quickly by The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Now I'm going to have that all day.

My friends and I started singing The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald while walking up the sidewalk after our White House tour a few weeks ago. I'm sure we got some looks.

[LookingSkyward]

AGN Fuel - keep thinking it's a thread title

[closetgeek]

It took me quite a while to realize that 'noclevername' meant "no clever name'. I thought it was something in a foreign language that I wasn't understanding. I wasn't even sure how to pronounce it.

I was reading Novaclaim, for the longest time. I also read Whirlpool as Whipperwill.

[Noclevername]

I keep reading BetaDust as BetaBeast. What is a beta beast you ask? It's an obscure type of alien monster from the short-lived Godzilla comic book in the '70s. How is it I remember that but I still have to look up my own social security number?

[Gillianren]

I learned mine in college. The summer after I graduated, they switched over to "student ID numbers." I got one, because I think technically all alumni did, but I have no idea what it was, because I've never used it.

[KaiYeves]

I was reading Novaclaim, for the longest time. I also read Whirlpool as Whipperwill.

I just read that as Novaclam, which I assume would be an alien shellfish.