Why the names from cartoons? - By Charles Brown
Good question! In primary school
(Primary school is a junior school where you start when you are 5
years old and leave at 12) we had a group of what would now be
called hackers, we would set the school computers to run games
programs instead of serious math's applications. We never got
caught and why, because we used names from cartoons. In secondary
school (Westhill Academy
So in primary school we were: -
Charles Brown - Brain (Inspector
Gadget), Broo (The Racoons) and very rarely Uni (Dungeons and
dragons)
Ashley Welfare - Chief Quimbe (Inspector Gadget), Bert
(The Racoons)
An(Tony) Dimelow - Inspector Gadget (Inspector Gadget), Shaffer
(The Racoons)
Graham Lion - Mad Cat (Inspector Gadget), Ralph (The
Racoons) and rarely Scrappy-Doo (Scooby and Scrappy-Doo show)
Peter Johnston - Penny (Inspector Gadget), Cyril Sneer (The
Racoons)
In the academy we were :-
Charles Brown - Runt
/ Buttons (Animaniacs), Abu (Aladdin) and very
rarely Brain (Inspector Gadget)
Ashley Welfare - Pesto / Pinky (Animaniacs), Genie (Aladdin) and
sometimes Buster Bunny (Tiny Toons)
An(Tony) Dimelow - Yakko (Animaniacs), Mozenrat
(Aladdin) and EXTREMELY rarely Potsworth (Potsworth and company)
Graham Lion - Wakko (Animaniacs), Aladdin (Aladdin) and sometimes
Max (Mighty Max)
Peter Johnston - Jago (Aladdin) and very rarely
Skippy (Animaniacs)
The names in bold are the names we used most often.
So we never got caught because nobody knew our
names (I had to ring everybody else up to find out some of them!)
and when we left school we kept our names to remind us of how
incredible brilliant we were at hacking. I integrated the name I
hacked to most in secondary school into me E-mail address so I
am:-
runt@ooh.dircon.co.uk
Runt?
After asking Jago and Yakko, I was confused. You see I always thought I was called Runt just because. That's it but apparently there are two diffrent stories as too how I'm know as Runt.
Jago
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According to Jago I was first called Runt about 3 days after A!
#7 was aired in the U.K for those not familiar with this episode
it had When Rita met Runt in it. I (apparently) looked like Runt
with _the_ Runt hair style. So everybody called me Runt.
Yakko
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Yakko can't rember when I was first called Runt, it could not
have been long after A! started. Now according to Yakko it was
because I SOUNDED like Runt (Not looked like him) that I was
called Runt. I can't remeber ever sounding like Runt but then I
can't remeber what I was doing a week ago....
Abu?
I was confused about runt, little did I know that Abu would confuse me even more! You see there is no story, people just started to call me Abu for no reason this _WAS_ scary as everybody from Westhill Hackers (and those who went onto D.N.R.) has a story about how they got there name except Abu appears to have spontenousily generated and integrated him self.
Runt-Abu
Well it was only a matter of time before my accounts got muddled up and people began to think that Runt and Abu where two seperate people, so to end the confusion I brought Runt and Abu together to form Runt-Abu.