I've been a member of this forum for about a year and a half and just realize what someone's board name really is. I tend to be a fast reader and must just glace over some names and words. For all that time I've been reading "gonesewin" as "goosewain"! I don't know what made me realize my mistake today, but I did. I also don't know what goosewain would have meant so you'd think I would have looked closer in all this time! LOL
I wonder how many other weird names I've invented for the rest of you!!!
I am not gonesewin, but your post made me laugh. I made the same mistake one time. I was on a message board about weight loss and one of the participant's screen name was "butiful." I wondered why someone posted how nice the name was because I had read it as butt - full instead of beautiful! Hey - it was a weight loss group!!!! Susan
Posts: 611 | Location: West Central Ohio, USA | Registered: Dec 28, 2002
ROFL - thanks for the laugh! I may have to use goosewain for something else some day
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Kay-lin, I used to read goaskmom as goatsmom. One day I looked at it better(maybe I was trying to type her name.LOL) and saw what it really said. How funny is that.
I had to chuckle, too, because at the retreat several people mentioned that I was 'more mature' than they had thought because they had read my name as a terrible 2's mom instead of trouble 2's mom, which is my daughter's nickname. She's a 30-something.
Judy
Posts: 405 | Location: Formerly New Hampshire, back home in Maine | Registered: Sep 15, 2004
I don't think I've made mistakes on people's names but for the past week I've been going nuts trying to figure out what the 'foot swap' tisme has been hosting is about. I figured out it was 'food' but it comes back as 'foot' every time I see it.
Ohhhh, I take that back. I'm guilty of thinking trble2ssmom was 'terrible'.
When I first starting coming to this board, there were threads for string quilts and Warm Wishes quilts, and others. For the first few weeks, I saw threads for QWL (Quilts with Love) quilts and thought it said owl. I thought, "Gee, these people really specialize. There's even a group that makes quilts with owls on them."
Posts: 4129 | Location: Maryland | Registered: Jun 14, 2006
... oh dear... no wyou have us all looking twice ... I just read this from Irish**: http://pearlstreetroad.blogspot.com/ as Pearls Tree Toad ... not sure that's really what she had in mind .... LOL
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