Back before the forum conversion mid-'06 (EE, I see you joined in February), the filters would replace naughty words with other, cuter words instead of asterisking them. These included Spoon for S***, Wombat for F*** and Denis Leary for A**hole. Thus, a scrubbed flame might read: "Can you believe that Denis Leary? He's such a wombating spoonhead."

I prefer my theory that he was punted for his own safety following a cookie pun-related breakdown. (Amusingly enough, a newly created profile - "Ninja Wizard" - showed up the next day and picked up all of TLN's characters. 'A friend', he said, who TLN had asked to continue on for him. The mods weren't fooled, and noticed about three days later. It's not like the handle was even sneaky... he should have named it "Not Logic Ninja" and seen how that worked out. )