List Hampsters
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In the Forever Knight fandom, the mailing list [email protected] is sometimes said to be powered by "hampsters", on whom are blamed any problems with the listserv.
The reference and spelling come from the joke script pages which were written to cheer up the cast when the series finale, "Last Knight", was being filmed.[1] (The finale originally aired 17 May 1996.)
For the final episode, two of the writers came up with a gag set of changed scenes for the script. In this the man who wouldn't go back became a kangaroo. The hospital scene included a nurse who was a "hampster," spelled that way. So we decided that the reason the listserv sometimes ran slow or did weird things was because it was powered by "list-hampsters" running in their little wheels.[2]
Fans who were later to join the list sometimes use the correct spelling (i.e. "hamsters"); and, in the interests of clarity, it is nowadays often spelled "ham(p)sters".
List hampsters are occasionally written into comic scenes in story posts made during Forever Knight Wars.
References
- ^ Lisa McDavid, "Remembering the list hampsters [sic]", posted to [email protected] 25 Jul 2010 16:47:26.
- ^ Lisa McDavid, "Admin: Where is everybody?", posted to [email protected] 6 May 2009.