Origin of the Not So Humble Hamsters

I was talked into reposting a compilation of all my parodies in the fall of 2000, over 20 tunes at the time.  In honor of the occasion, a new parody was born.  This parody was an experiment in special effects, specifically pitch shifting, similar to the effect David Seville used to create his Chipmunks.  Around this same time one of the personalities in the MP3 discussion group started referring to MP3 adherents as "hamsters" for reasons that are entirely unclear to me.  Thus The Hamsters were born.  It later occurred to me that this group name might have be claimed already, and sure enough, someone did do some Chipmunk work as "The Hamsters", so my Hamsters became the "Not So Humble Hamsters" for that reason.  They are, from left to right, Gypsy, Cephus, and Stewrat, namesakes of three regulars in the MP3 newsgroups.  My voice is not so terribly interesting to many, so the Not So Humble Hamsters have been a large part of the C. H. C. parody work from that point forward.