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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.

Many times online you don't want to give your real name, whether it's registering pirated software or registering for some dumb web site, so I always put "Mijo Bijo" as my name when that instance comes up. I guess it's easy to type and seems reasonable for an ethnic name of whose origin I don't know. So that's where the nickname came from, 5 years of lying about my real name.