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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 nickname "Woody" was given to me roundabout 4th grade, when a friend's dad decided that I looked like a "young Woody Allen."

Mid-high school, I started using "Woody" full-time (too many Michaels in the world).

Started DJ'ing under the name "DJ Woody" (imaginative, huh?).

'Net searches turned up lots of Woodys, many DJ Woody's but absolutely no 'Wüdi's — and 'DJ Wüdi' was born.