Unacceptable Handles...

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

Unacceptable handles...

Here are two that "Buzztime" would not allow me and my friends to use:

"George"

"Gypsy"

I can understand the obvious "No No" handles not being acceptable, but what could possibly be wrong with "George" or "Gypsy"? Anyone ever run into other handles that you couldn't use, other than the obvious ones?

p.s. One time I tried to use handles that might have been a little risque, picking out words that "Buzztime" put on the screen in questions, answers, and explanations. Yep, they weren't allowed. I think NTN may have a double standard here. If a word is unacceptable for a handle, how can they use that word with what they put up on the screen?

Jethro · **Posted:** Thu Jun 16, 2011 1:25 am

'orge' = orgy

'psy' = pussy

THE ICEMAN · **Posted:** Thu Jun 16, 2011 1:28 am

For some reason "BTPLUG" is allowed. Don't ask. :shock:

Akbar71 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 16, 2011 2:10 am

"FAKBAR" is verboten.

zog741 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 16, 2011 3:18 am

"PSYCHO" is another one that is "unacceptable". Wonder if the censors have ever heard of Alfred Hitchcock? :roll:

-- RWM

MitchWolf · **Posted:** Thu Jun 16, 2011 5:31 am

WLFCCK & FATCCK is allowed as well. No need to explain those meanings.

MitchWolf · **Posted:** Thu Jun 16, 2011 5:34 am

zog741 wrote:

"PSYCHO" is another one that is "unacceptable". Wonder if the censors have ever heard of Alfred Hitchcock? :roll:

-- RWM

Again the PSY comes into play there. They think it means pussy show.

MiniYoda · **Joined:** Wed Feb 24, 2010 2:55 pm **Posts:** 733

George was probably banned due to the previous president.

I'm still surprised they allow anything that starts with an F and a space, such as "F CLDY"

zog741 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 16, 2011 6:45 am

MitchWolf wrote:

zog741 wrote:

"PSYCHO" is another one that is "unacceptable". Wonder if the censors have ever heard of Alfred Hitchcock? :roll:

-- RWM

Again the PSY comes into play there. They think it means pussy chow.

"Very interesting ... but stupid!" :mrgreen:

-- RWM

Dante · **Posted:** Thu Jun 16, 2011 8:38 am

I think they should block all names containing consonants.

googie · **Posted:** Thu Jun 16, 2011 8:42 am

You can have CRAZY but not WACKO. and HOTDOG but not WEINER.

-BO- · **Joined:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 3:20 pm **Posts:** 2295

googie wrote:

You can have CRAZY but not WACKO. and HOTDOG but not WEINER.

What about IHACK, PTMNCH, CRDCHT, and LAGDIK?

BO

TCHCNB · **Joined:** Tue Jan 19, 2010 2:19 pm **Posts:** 284

-BO- wrote:

googie wrote:

You can have CRAZY but not WACKO. and HOTDOG but not WEINER.

What about IHACK, PTMNCH, CRDCHT, and LAGDIK?

BO

Love it!! Priceless!!

IDJIT5500 · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:02 pm **Posts:** 404

when i first signed in many years ago idjit was acceptable. then they got a new bad word dictionary and that handle was no longer acceptable. apparently jit was a bad word in some language at some time.

MitchWolf · **Posted:** Thu Jun 16, 2011 6:14 pm

There are 93 P+ Players with this handle = "OMGWTF"

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

MERKIN is one of the best trivia players I have ever met. (If you don't know what a merkin is, Google it.) If I remember his story correctly, he had established an account with NTN using the handle "MERKIN", then one day he couldn't log on, because it had become an unacceptable handle. He called NTN and argued that he should be allowed to continue using the handle. MERKIN won...!

p.s. How many children or their parents could be offended by a word they have never seen before, and have no idea what it means?

MitchWolf · **Posted:** Thu Jun 16, 2011 7:51 pm

Cloudy wrote:

MERKIN is one of the best trivia players I have ever met. (If you don't know what a merkin is, Google it.) If I remember his story correctly, he had established an account with NTN using the handle "MERKIN", then one day he couldn't log on, because it had become an unacceptable handle. He called NTN and argued that he should be allowed to continue using the handle. MERKIN won...!

p.s. How many children or their parents could be offended by a word they have never seen before, and have no idea what it means?

then all the GEORGE's need to do the same I guess. 8-)

richte09 · **Joined:** Thu Jan 21, 2010 11:24 pm **Posts:** 196

googie wrote:

You can have CRAZY but not WACKO. and HOTDOG but not WEINER.

But one of my teammies Al (Twit) wa abe to use Weener as 2nd box handle, Go figure!!

spotes · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:27 pm **Posts:** 1558

I've seen a player registered as "O SHIT" in the top twenty two times.

teverett · **Posted:** Fri Jun 17, 2011 10:02 pm

They won't let my friend Cassie use the name Cassie because of the word ass - what the hell...

scannon · **Posted:** Fri Jun 17, 2011 10:19 pm

My cousin's last named is Zahn, so he tried both ZANADU and XANADU, but both were rejected. He ended up using ZAHNDU. The only thing we could figure was the embedded NAD in the name. :roll:

MitchWolf · **Posted:** Fri Jun 17, 2011 10:53 pm

spotes wrote:

I've seen a player registered as "O SHIT" in the top twenty two times.

FLY saw that one night when I wasn't looking. Did you saw where they played at???

MitchWolf · **Posted:** Fri Jun 17, 2011 11:12 pm

spotes wrote:

I've seen a player registered as "O SHIT" in the top twenty two times.

I found him

http://www.buzztime.com/players/bt_profile.php?pid=242170

Falcon · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2011 10:44 pm

MiniYoda wrote:

George was probably banned due to the previous president.

George Washington, maybe. "ORG" is one of the letter combinations banned from the beginning. I can remember the late George Morgan (NAGROM) complaining about 1990 that he could not get in either of his names (so he used one backwards). Three-letter combinations seemed to be commonly filtered then; ANA may have been one of them, which might explain the "Xanadu" problem.

MitchWolf · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2011 10:49 pm

Falcon wrote:

George Washington, maybe.

No, MiniYoda was mentioning "Dubba" Bush

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