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by cobbzilla 572 days ago
Watch as someone names themselves the bell character, “^G” (ASCII code 7) [1]

When they meet people, they tell them their name is unpronounceable, it’s the sound of a PC speaker from the late 20th century, but you can call them by their preferred nickname “beep”.

In paper and online forms they are probably forced to go by the name “BEL”.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_character

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Or Derek <wood dropping on desk>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNoS2BU6bbQ

The interaction brings to mind Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfKZclMWS1U

(from the Polish comedy film "How I Unleashed World War II")

I thought this was going to be a link to the Key & Peele sketch: https://youtu.be/gODZzSOelss?t=180
I can finally change my name to something that represents my personality: ^G^C

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-Text_character