And what am I, chopped liver?
(Don’t get too excited Pup, just a figure of speech, no one has liver in their pocket)
Ahem, I believe I started this campaign to oust a poseur tryna gaslight the Dope, at large. And steal your beloved persona.
I won’t have it, I tell you. It just won’t do!!
or maybe they’re hesitant to cook for strangers, not knowing their “I don’t/can’t eat that”, so store-bought is safer
Not really, since it is well known that icon changing is allowed.
In most frontend/backend languages, it is quite trivial to send the individual collections of letters back to the server in real time,
Eg: Enter name:
“John”
The front end starts firing off simple requests for all users, who match starting characters “Jo*”, then filters that list by all that have an “h”, and filters those that do not have an “n”.
It takes more text to describe the process than code to do the comparison.
Chronos has already suggested the m that user contact the mids to get their name changed, so i expect this situation will be resolved, one way or another.
I know that this is a typo, but I am offended on your behalf by the title “mids”.
Y’all are better than that!
He was referring to @Chronos calling him a St Bernard.
That is one happy dog.
But nothing can beat a Saluki for elegance.
Thank you for your constant explanations on my behalf. So so helpful.
In fact,
I knew who he was referring to. I would liked him to refer to me.
Hence my lamentations for recognition.
But that is ok. I would do it for any one. 'Cause I’m nice like that.
I thought there were three: The bad one, the bad one, and the bad one.
(and my apologies to the young Canis lupus, of the familiaris subspecies, for the mistake of breed)
Hey there. I’m '92, so we overlapped. Broadview first year, then apartments the rest (including top floor of that tallish one at Blackstone and 52nd St).
Carry on…
You are Correct.
I figured it was the bad one, the bad, bad one, and the bad, bad, bad one. You don’t want to cross #3 when she’s in a mood.
I’m badx3 in a nice way. 
You’ll know if I’m mad. 
That’s all very well, but WHAT WERE YOU THINKING ?!
I instantly heard that screechy voice: “Harcourt Fenton Mudd!”. Some memes stick. Even if the word “meme” was 15 years in the future when that scene was shot. And it’s now just shy of 60 years since it was aired.
Shouldn’t that be “What WERE you thinking?”
Maybe.
Or possibly “What were you THINKING?”
Or “What were YOU thinking?”
Or even “What WERE you THINKING?”
“What, Where, Who, Why , When you thinking?”