# I'm thinking about changing my user name to The Swarthy Stuart **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 8, 2010, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-thinking-about-changing-my-user-name-to-the-swarthy-stuart/524105 "2010-01-08T01:19:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-thinking-about-changing-my-user-name-to-the-swarthy-stuart/524105/1 "2010-01-08T01:19:30Z")
But if you’d like it, feel free. I just feel the need to memorialize our dear departed friend somehow. (And it will ensure that, via the magic of Google, he’ll never forget _us_, either.) Any other suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-thinking-about-changing-my-user-name-to-the-swarthy-stuart/524105/2 "2010-01-08T01:25:17Z")
I have no idea who that is. Is it a dear departed friend of you personally? That would explain why I don’t know who it is. It certainly stands out. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-thinking-about-changing-my-user-name-to-the-swarthy-stuart/524105/3 "2010-01-08T01:33:40Z")
It’s a tribute to a true nutball. [Link.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=544874) ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-thinking-about-changing-my-user-name-to-the-swarthy-stuart/524105/4 "2010-01-08T01:39:29Z")
I wish that thread hadn’t been closed. Now I have no reason to live. **Egmond Codfried! Egmond Codfried! Egmond Codfried!** ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-thinking-about-changing-my-user-name-to-the-swarthy-stuart/524105/5 "2010-01-08T02:44:44Z")
We can change our user names? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-thinking-about-changing-my-user-name-to-the-swarthy-stuart/524105/6 "2010-01-08T02:48:53Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > We can change our user names? Yes. Generally speaking, TPTB allow one name change. If you want more, you’ll need to have a real good reason. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-thinking-about-changing-my-user-name-to-the-swarthy-stuart/524105/7 "2010-01-08T09:50:37Z")
Do I get to change mine to The Young Pretender? ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-thinking-about-changing-my-user-name-to-the-swarthy-stuart/524105/8 "2010-01-08T10:40:25Z")
Wow I just finished reading that thread. How come I always miss the fun ones? The last post was suitably epic. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-thinking-about-changing-my-user-name-to-the-swarthy-stuart/524105/9 "2010-01-08T12:13:37Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > I just feel the need to memorialize our dear departed friend somehow. > > (And it will ensure that, via the magic of Google, he’ll never forget _us_, either.) > > Any other suggestions? **I am the Egmond, they are the Eggmend**? **The Black Boy** or **Tall Black Man** would probably be misunderstood or confusing. > [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > We can change our user names? Yes. Just contact an administrator ( **TubaDiva** , **C K Dexter Haven** , **SkipMagic** , **Gaudere** , or **Lynn Bodoni** ) with a private message or an email from the account you use for Straight Dope notifications. ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-thinking-about-changing-my-user-name-to-the-swarthy-stuart/524105/10 "2010-01-08T13:17:37Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > But if you’d like it, feel free. I just feel the need to memorialize our dear departed friend somehow. > > (And it will ensure that, via the magic of Google, he’ll never forget _us_, either.) > > Any other suggestions? Only if you can prove to us that you have the true blue blood, by which I mean black blood, in your veins. ---
**Author:** ![Danika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@Danika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danika)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-thinking-about-changing-my-user-name-to-the-swarthy-stuart/524105/11 "2010-01-08T20:33:51Z")
Egmond Codfried needs a tribute. After all this is the man who found out that Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette actually were black. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-thinking-about-changing-my-user-name-to-the-swarthy-stuart/524105/12 "2010-01-08T20:44:18Z")
> [@Fleetwood](#): > > Only if you can prove to us that you have the true blue blood, by which I mean black blood, in your veins. Does ichor count? ---
**Author:** ![Noel\_Prosequi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b19c9b/32.png) [@Noel\_Prosequi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noel_Prosequi)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-thinking-about-changing-my-user-name-to-the-swarthy-stuart/524105/13 "2010-01-09T05:09:31Z")
So… was Egmond more fun or less fun than Beryl Mooncalf? I have to say I felt a great disturbance in the Force when Egmond was shut down - I am sure the whole Dopeverse went “Awwww” with disappointment. Egmond, we hardly knew ye. You will be missed. ---
**Author:** ![conurepete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@conurepete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conurepete)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-thinking-about-changing-my-user-name-to-the-swarthy-stuart/524105/14 "2010-01-09T05:20:11Z")
I miss him. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-thinking-about-changing-my-user-name-to-the-swarthy-stuart/524105/15 "2010-01-09T05:24:59Z")
> [@Noel\_Prosequi](#): > > Egmond, we hardly knew ye. You will be missed. Not around here, he won’t… …because there are many Dopers with excellent aim. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-thinking-about-changing-my-user-name-to-the-swarthy-stuart/524105/16 "2010-01-09T07:51:57Z")
He was like a falling star on a dark night - brief, blazing, glorious, obsessed with some bizarre theory\*. I was so sad to see the thread locked, and his highness banned. - fun astronomy fact - falling stars are generally conspiracy theorists. I can prove this with my collection of woodcuts. . ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-thinking-about-changing-my-user-name-to-the-swarthy-stuart/524105/17 "2010-01-09T08:01:38Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > - fun astronomy fact - falling stars are generally conspiracy theorists. I can prove this with my collection of woodcuts. I have no idea what y’all are talking about, as I’m too new, but even I want to make that my sig! ---
**Author:** ![Danika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@Danika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danika)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-thinking-about-changing-my-user-name-to-the-swarthy-stuart/524105/18 "2010-01-09T18:55:28Z")
I thought at first that Egmond Codfried was only joking with us when he presented his wild theories e.g. showing a picture of Anne of Danemark from a play as proof of her blackness. And especially since he didn’t have any evidences to back up his theories with even when he was beeing asked to show them. But I’ve noticed he’s been hanging around a lot of sites talking about his “research”. He seems to really believe in this stuff himself. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-thinking-about-changing-my-user-name-to-the-swarthy-stuart/524105/19 "2010-01-09T21:53:53Z")
> [@Danika](#): > > I thought at first that Egmond Codfried was only joking with us when he presented his wild theories e.g. showing a picture of Anne of Danemark from a play as proof of her blackness. And especially since he didn’t have any evidences to back up his theories with even when he was beeing asked to show them. But I’ve noticed he’s been hanging around a lot of sites talking about his “research”. He seems to really believe in this stuff himself. 😕 Crazy people rarely make sense. That what makes them crazy people. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-thinking-about-changing-my-user-name-to-the-swarthy-stuart/524105/20 "2010-01-10T01:32:10Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > I have no idea what y’all are talking about, as I’m too new, but even I want to make that my sig! Welcome to the Dope, dude. The line is yours, but you must use it’s power for good, not evil. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-thinking-about-changing-my-user-name-to-the-swarthy-stuart/524105.md?page=2)