I have changed my username to TNETENNBA. In commitment to transparency, I am letting you know that all the petty grudges you held against CRICETUS can now be held against me, TNETENNBA.
As you know, “tnetennba” is a real word which might be used in a sentence such as, “Good morning, that’s a nice tnetennba.”
But why? I mean, I know who Cricetus is. This tnetennba guy… he’s just some n00b.
I didn’t want to be just another hamster when there’s a Hamster King on board.
See, I could never get into “The IT Crowd” They were all just such pathetic wankers that I didn’t care what kind of crap happened to them. Clearly they brought it upon themselves, so quarantining them in the basement was probably the smartest thing anyone could have done. The only part of the show I liked was when that executive jumped out the window. Now that was funny.
Enjoy,
Steven
Thank you for your interesting and valuable contribution to the thread.
Couldn’t you have capitalized your new username?
Will you still be keeping **Diogenes the Cynic **on the straight and narrow since you can comment on what he was like as a kid? ;)
(I am pretty sure you are brothers IRL - sorry if I have that wrong)
Also - aren’t you a writer? Any new books coming out?
You got the right guy on both counts. I’ll distance myself from DTC… I think he deserves to flourish or founder on his own credibility. I regret having rebuked him here publicly.
I have a book coming out in September called The Tanglewood Terror. Due apologies to Hawthorne. We were all over the place with that title, and that’s what we finally came up with.
In hindsight, clearly not my finest moment. I apologize for any offense, none was intended. Sometimes when I recognize an obscure reference I say the first thing that pops into my head, and in this case I should have taken a moment to think about how it would have been perceived. I’ve had a good opinion of you as cricetus, and I see no reason for your nom de plume to influence that. I’ll see if I can rewire the parts of my brain which respond to unusual references to run the reaction through my cognitive processes before reacting in the future.
Enjoy,
Steven
tnetennba is abnnetent spelled backwards.
And an anagram for “Bent an Ent”. Gotta be pretty damn strong to do that…
Understood - hoist by his own petard, if you will 
And congrats - please post a link when it is published - don’t think of doing so as a self-serving ego-stroke; it is keeping us Dopers up to date!