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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

Hi! Looooooong time lurker..
I remember following 9|11 on Meta
while the other major websites were down...

Always loved the crazy bunch here at meta,
best commenters around the internets!
Sometimes I would have had my word to say,
especially in AskMe.
But:
Never had a credit card...
Its only today I dare asking my wife her card...
A 5.44$Can expense after 12 years of 'marriage'!


Please pardon in advance the typos and weird
syntaxes i may use. Je suis Québecois.