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Name: hendler
Joined: September 19, 2000

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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.

my friend andrew was reading a book on ancient taoist practices and came across a small sect of monks who were called light conversationalists. they spent their days talking intently about the most inane of subjects; the more minute the topic, the better. by giving their fullest attention to the smallest points, they achieved enlighenment. we (he, myself and and our friend mark) realized that we, too, were light conversationalists.

we decided to form a church. #1, for tax reasons and #2 so that we could wear comfortable clothing. as founders of the church of the eternal light conversation, we realized we needed new names to signal our religious conversion.

andrew, to whom things came seemingly without effort, became wu wei ("effortless effort"). i became bison after a shonen knife song. and mark, who had no cute nickname became "son cher sobriquet".