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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.

The nick comes from an appalling lack of inspiration while signing up - I sat there feeling a terrible pressure to think of something impressively witty, and was coming up empty, when my eye fell on my beloved DVD of "Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eigth Dimension".
I briefly considered claiming the nick "Lord Whorfin", but ultimately, I just lacked the "berries" to assert outright Lordship.