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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.

I was a New Yorker living in Tel Aviv. On Purim, a holiday where you get dressed up, I was wearing a teletubby head as a weird hat. With the political situation being tense I was reported as suspicious and an officer grabbed me, stopped me and searched me. Terrortubby was born. You thought you had to worry about them because they were gay - they're actually a terrorist cell.

I've since moved to the Northeast of England in Hartlepool, home of the monkey hanging legend.