The earliest post credited to "Once Famous" is dated April '04, and the most recent is dated May '06. That's in the entire Mudcat archive, as revealed by clicking on the name ~ not just in this thread,

Was Martin Gibson's tenure among us really only two years long? Seemed like damn near forever...

His contributions to this thread were clearly posted under the name Martin Gibson when they first appeared ~ that's obvious from other people's comments. So I conclude that most, if not all, of the archived messages currently attributed to Once Famous originally bore the name Martin Gibson.

I can't tell which, if any, of the most recent "Once Famous" posts may have originally appeared under the revised name of Once Famous. In other words, did MG change his handle and then continue posting (however briefly) under the revised name? Or did he change his name as a sort of good-bye gift, and immediately quit participating?

Or did someone else impose a "posthumous" name-change after he had gone for good ~ perhaps out of sympathy for those who were so grieviously insulted by MG that the mere sight of his name would be somehow traumatic?

Curiouser and curiouser...