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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 love puns. It's a pun! A bilingual pun!! And when I Googled it, the term hardly appeared anywhere.

That's it. Oh, and of course I wanted a relatively clever nickname for MeFi. You folks set a high standard.

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MeFi is the first place on the web that I've actually paid to access. It hosts the best, most respectful, most interesting, most civil discussions. Full stop. The only thing that held me up was the nickname issue. :->