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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.

rabi is my name. really. the one from my birth certificate and everything. of course, the way my birth certificate looks now, it's kind of hard to tell what my parents intended. that's what they get for deciding to change my name a few months after I was born -- and then letting the guy cross out my name and write in the new one with a pen, instead of actually issuing me a new birth certificate. but 'rabi' is one of the three names I've had since the minute I was born. it's way cooler than the other one. you say it like this: "rah-bee." I'm not a rabbi, even though the democratic party seems to think I am.