What's my age again?

Have you realized you can change your name? Well, not entirely. At Hope College, you can change your first name on Moodle, a Course Management System. My house-mates and I figured this out a few weeks ago; it was like figuring out the ‘D’ in Disney is actually a ‘D’ for the first time.

Are you sure that's not a backwards 'G?'

Sunday nights in our apartment usually consist of everybody sitting around, watching TV, finishing up homework they neglected to start until 8 p.m. that night. Naturally, somebody was on Moodle checking to see what was due the next day and happened upon this wonderful gem.

By clicking on your own name it takes you to your profile. The middle tab at the top of the screen says "Edit Profile." Clicking that let's you change not only your first name but your hometown, country, profile picture and let's you add a description. Tom Foolery ensued.

Some of the names that started appearing in the "Online Users" box on the right hand side of Moodle included: 

• Why Does it Burn? Rebhan
• James "Ranch Dressing" Nichols
• Moodle is fun Gabhart
• We Eble

The best part was when we literally broke Moodle. It was still functioning but severely distorted.

This is Moodle on a good day

Apparently, a 150-character long name it too much for Moodle to handle

The scene in our living room was spectacular; red faces gasping for breath, giggles and chuckles filling the air and the occasional, accidental fart creeping out from excess laughing.  After an hour of amusing ourselves we settled on names. Only two of us kept pseudo-names. Everybody else went back to their real name.

Dixie Doodle Fur Bomb Nichols and Black-crowned Central American Squirrel Monkey Rebhan still roam the "Online Users" box on Moodle, looking for oddly-named friends to join them in their quest to fill Moodle with better, more adequate names. Cotton-headed ninny-muggins need not apply.