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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.

Somebody once called me Gary by accident. And then everyone who heard started calling me that. And persuaded everyone else do so too. And then they thought that wasn't foolish enough, and shortened it to Gaz. See: a nickname of a nickname. I must be very cool indeed.

Oh yes, you may not have realised, but I'm destroying America from afar. Apparently this can be achieved just by arguing against executing a crazy woman. If only it were so easy ;)