the origins of the squirrels can be found in a blog actor David Hewlett posted on Thursday October 12th 2006

"I’ve been reading some of the posts on the forum…fear not little squirrels, I’m not reading the fanfiction…yet! ;-)"

whatever made David call us squirrels I doubt he nor us realized back then what crazyness this little comment would cause. Many members at the dgeek forum have then "adopted the furry tailed rodents as our mascot". Icons, signatures, references in posts as well as David's news and blog updates keep the squirrel spirit alive.

 

And let's face it - we are nuts and we dig nuts