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Name: Tom
Joined: August 29, 2002

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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.

Jasper Ankle is the name of the (anti) hero in Edward Gorey's classic book "The Blue Aspic." He obsessively worships an Italian opera singer named Ortenzia Caviglia.

While he pores over his clippings and listens to recordings he loses his job and his home, and walks the streets in snowstorms "clutching his warping records to his chest."

He breaks out of an insane asylum, and finally meets his destiny by stabbing Madam Caviglia. He then shouts out "Jai trouve Hortense" and stabs himself.

The 411 was added because username Jasper was taken, and because dialing 411 will get you information!