I tell ya, they’ll let just about anybody hand out awards around here! 
He should be proud someone felt him worthy of being a Curmudgeon. But, he still has years of work to go before he is recognized as a Duffer, a Codger, or a Coot.
Uncle Beer posts the following list of evolving user names:
I’ll add:
Ursa Major née PapaBear
scylla née alsmith
Krispy Original née Contestant #3, et alia
Sue from El Paso
Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.
Really? Papabear became Ursa Major? Hmmm. I didn’t know that. I’d been wondering where he went. Why doesn’t anybody inform me of these things?! Jeez, I feel so out of the loop…
You gotta worry when the Moderator’s out of the loop! :rolleyes:
SF/fantasy: Joe Haldeman, Stephen R. Donaldson, David Brin.
Mysteries: Laurie R. King, Jan Burke, Sara Paretsky, Lawrence Block, Nevada Barr, J.A. Jance, Karen Kijewski.
Two words:
Jerzy Kosinski.
Man, was that guy somethin’, or what?
Arthur C. Clarke.
Robert Heinlein.
David Gerrold.
Larry Niven (& Jerry Pournelle and/or Stevn Barnes).
Last and NOT least: Harlan Ellison.
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