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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.

Born into a ninja orphanage at the turn of the 17th century, Jim Christian quickly established himself amongst some of the key protagonists who brought order to the world through this mystical art of subtlety, nuance and pain.

Killing all whom would dare block his path, Jim's popularity as a mercenary-for-hire rose to dizzying heights, his name spoken only in hushed whispers amongst the terrified and unjust, those most unlawful of men. However, he was cast out and sent away from his ninja-orphan brethren for not truly embracing their way of the warrior. He found no solace in his homeland and set out abroad, a dark angel on the horizon.

Some time later, he found himself living in West Hollywood. There, he trained the likes of Bruce Lee, Al Gore and Pee Wee Herman in the arcane crafts of Aikaido, Jujitsu and Balloon Animal Art. It was during this period in his life that he also invented the question mark and the donut - however, history neglects to credit him with these two inventions, arguably the most beneficial additions to the legacy of mankind.

Jim Christian, older and nearing the end of his days, is now retired and masking his true identity as an IT Consultant in the United Kingdom. He has taken on the guise of a youngish American man so as not to tip the balance of power towards his mortal enemies who would see him dead.