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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.

I took my superhero name from the 12 grade (Spectre - based on Shadowcat except I would steal... and that really wouldn't make me a hero but I wasn't going to tell my english class my true intentions) but I thought it'd be a stupid handle. So I cut it down and plopped down the year of my birth '80 at the end. Because that would make it less stupid. Somehow.

My friend recently asked if I named myself after the Austrian or Italian cured ham known as "speck." As I find it delicious, I agreed that could be an alternate origin of my name.