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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.

merocet was the name of a brand of cough lozenges on my desk back in the old days of trying to sign up for screen names with compuserve. I tried everything that was like my name until I gave up and went with the cough sweets.

Once I lived in London with a successful career as a market researcher, now I live on the Upper East Side in New York with a lively dog walking business. Funny life innit?