Meme: Changing your display name on a whim.
Originator: Welbog
Cultural Height: TBD
Official Response: Limited to one change every 30 days.
Background: User Welbog likes to change his profile whenever it will make a post of his seem funnier. Other times it seems to just be on a whim. He will also edit his "About Me" text, to fit in with his current display name.
- Welbog
- Welboug (Old English spelling)
- Welbo_g (Censored Old English spelling)
- Ouèlbogue (French spelling)
- Susan (From the "new name for Welbog" contest"new name for Welbog" contest)
- Susan Papadismgaogenabhieanae
- Susan Papadismgaogenabhieanaelaegkae
- www.biglaser.net (He is a big fan of lasers) (referenced here)
- Steven Spielberg's Welbog (Waste of a movie)
- Robox Prime (best cartoon on television in 2009)
- Chicago Ted
- I'm really awesome. Really.
- welbog at googlewave.com
- Hellbog (Evil twin of Smellbog)
- Birthday Welbog
- firtjer (It's fretje's fault)
- Gargamel (because they only had on Smurfette)
- NIfE
- The Encapsulator
- The Proposer
- Weblog
- Double Welbog
- Toronto
- Sid Meier
- Whom
- Killbog
- FYI I'm still changing my name
- Can't stop the photons
- A very laser Christmas
- JSONBog
Also independently started by voyager in response to a post asking what constituted spam, trying to convey that some users are spam, comedic effect enhanced by answering in a post complaining about the Amazon Monty Python ads appearing when first introduced. After that, it just degenerated into a neverending competition with welbog to out do the wackiness of the other user's changes.
- voyager
- spam
- Eggs, Spam, Ham and Spam
- Arthur voyager King <!-- had forgotten about this one! -->
- smeagol
- spam AKA smeagol AKA voyager
- ûöyàgúer (or something like that)
viyager- voyager's back
- voyager's mask
- the man with the shifting name
- voyλger
- waveyλger (Google Wave is a time sink)
- json
- perbert
Other changes of management
Several other users have subsequently engaged in this meme. See the edit history if you want to see all the individual participants and their name changes. Meme listings are not complete catalogues.
