**Meme:** Changing your display name on a whim. **Originator:** [Welbog][] **Cultural Height:** TBD **Official Response:** [Limited to one change every 30 days][1]. **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][2] (Censored Old English spelling) - Ouèlbogue - Susan (From the ["new name for Welbog" contest](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25136/rename-the-welbog-contest)) - Susan Papadismgaogenabhieanae - [Susan Papadismgaogenabhieanaelaegkae][3] - [www.biglaser.net][] (He is a big fan of lasers) <sup><sub>[(referenced here)](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26224/people-never-down-vote)</sub></sup> - [Steven Spielberg's Welbog][Welbog-the-movie] (Waste of a movie) - [Robox Prime][Robox] (best cartoon on television in 2009) - Chicago Ted - I'm really awesome. Really. - [welbog at googlewave.com][4] - [Hellbog][5] (Evil twin of Smellbog) - Birthday Welbog - firtjer (It's [fretje's fault][6]) - Gargamel ([because they only had on Smurfette][7]) - NIfE - [The Encapsulator][8] - [The Proposer][9] - Weblog - Double Welbog Also independently started by [voyager](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130127/voyager) in response to a [post asking what constituted spam][10], trying to convey that some users *are* spam, comedic effect enhanced by answering [in a post complaining about the Amazon Monty Python ads][11] 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][12] - [Eggs, Spam, Ham and Spam](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22433/possible-bug-with-ads) - Arthur voyager King <!-- had forgotten about this one! --> - [smeagol](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23724/small-formatting-quirk-that-bothers-me/23725#23725 "not the first occurrence") - [spam AKA smeagol AKA voyager](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23005/i-think-i-was-just-serial-downvoted-how-can-this-prevented-by-the-community/23008#23008) - ûöyàgúer (or something like that) - [`viyager`][13] - voyager's back - voyager's mask - the man with the shifting name - voyλger - waveyλger ([Google Wave is a time sink][14]) - [json][15] - perbert ###Other changes of management - Pesto - [Uwe Boll's Pesto](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26491/can-someone-let-me-in-on-the-6-8-weeks-joke/26492#26492) <sup><sub>Based on Welbog's change to Steven Spielberg's Welbog</sub></sup> - Pesto Demands Fealty - [CSI Pesto][16] - Policeman Pesto (oink oink) - Chetso - Hilarious Comedy Pesto - [Gnovice][17] - John Carpenter's The Gnovice - I'm kind of a big deal - [gnostradamus][18] - gnovices-exchange - Gnovice - John Rudy - [John Rudy's Grumpy][19] - Cigars and Bourbon are Good - Cigars and Absinthe are Great - user0x36E0 - Zombie Nixon - Dr. Gonzo - I miss my downvotes (a result of [this bug][31]) - John Rudy - [belgariontheking][20] - Michael Bay's belgariontheking - I am Chet Atwood - Ether - ðer - [Æther][21] - Ether - nobody_ - [Kyle Cronin][22] - Gortok - [George Stocker][23] - Rich B - Chet Atwood ([which has resulted in a suspension][24]) - Geoffrey Chetwood - Shog9 - [Smellbog][25] - Sam Saffron - [waffles][26] - [Chris Lutz][27] - [Changing my Meta Name is Cool][28] - Length Limits on Names are Stu - Adam Davis - [Pollyanna][29] - Gnome - The Cat - Gnome - Pekka - Questions - Down with the 30 day waiting period - [I outwitted the 30 day waiting period][30] - ccomet - ccornet - Grace Note - John Smithers - Ladybug Killer - Chacha102 - Tradition - Chacha102 - Fearless Spammer - Mehrdad - R. Bemrose - Powerlord [Welbog]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/52443/welbog "Beware: Not Safe For Work!!" [Welbo_g]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24079/Censored-for-your-protection "Censored for your protection" [Welbog-the-movie]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26437/Welbog-the-Movie/26440#26440 "Welbog the movie" [www.biglaser.net]: http://www.biglaser.net "Lasers!" [Robox]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27046/with-more-awesome-in-your-face/27050#27050 "Saturdays at 11 on Fox" [1]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29966/can-we-restrict-the-ability-of-users-to-keep-changing-their-names [2]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24079/is-the-language-brainfck-offensive [3]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25710/how-is-the-tagging-system-implemented-here-at-sofu [4]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28703/how-is-the-sea-perfume [5]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29233/playful-parodies-possibly-pose-plenty-perplexing-problems/ [6]: http://welbog.homeip.net/~inferno/images/so/firtjer.png [7]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31168/fork-you-frell-you-and-frakk-you/31196#31196 [8]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/48974/cyber-bullies-stole-my-identity-lunch-money [9]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/52900/area51-silliness-what-does-it-mean/52925#52925 [10]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21823/what-constitutes-spam/21824#21824 [11]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21855/monty-python-book-ad-showing-up-in-python-questions/21864#21864 [12]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21855/monty-python-book-ad-showing-up-in-python-questions/21864#21864 [13]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25676/do-vba-questions-belong-on-so-or-su/25682#25682 [14]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28882/what-is-your-google-wave-id [15]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/44461/usernames-ending-in-json-cause-trouble/44465#44465 [16]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28703/would-it-be-appropriate-to-make-a-thread-on-meta-asking-for-google-wave-ids-of-so/28709#28709 "enhance! enhance!" [17]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/52738/im-kind-of-a-big-deal [18]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30193/tag-badges-exploit/30216#30216 [19]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28612/discussions-should-not-be-marked-as-duplicate [20]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130890/michael-bays-belgariontheking [21]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30411/what-can-stackoverflow-do-to-persuade-female-programmers-to-participate-more/30418#30418 [22]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/658/kyle-cronin [23]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/16587/george-stocker [24]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29233/playful-parodies-possibly-problematic [25]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29233/playful-parodies-possibly-problematic/29237#29237 [26]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19392/what-is-up-with-the-waffle-fetish [27]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/135301 [28]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/can-haz-recurshun/26518#26518 [29]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2915/pollyanna [30]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/54986/name-change-limiting-can-be-broken/55942#55942 [31]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/59084/where-did-all-of-the-downvotes-go