**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 <sup><sub>(Does anyone know of a link for this --> It came from the "new name for Welbog" contest that was deleted after Welbog made a fuss about it)</sub></sup>
- 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

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
- John Rudy
 - [John Rudy's Grumpy][19]
 - Cigars and Bourbon are Good
 - Cigars and Absinthe are Great
 - user0x36E0
 - Zombie Nixon
 - Dr. Gonzo
- [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]
- ccornet
 - ccomet
 - Grace Note

[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