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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.

Thunder? No one had taken it yet and I wanted something short and snappy. Unfortunately, my weblog/domain came a little later, and so I'm signed up for most OTHER things using "foxvox" - sometimes I think about asking Mr. Matt to change my user ID (don't want to drop that beloved low user number!) - and then I just think that would be wrong somehow to screw with it - ahhhh, well. Oh, the pain, oh, the pain of it all! *grin* Added to this pain is the fact that my online shop is also called Art of FoxVox - so much for name recognition - LOL!