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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.

(Hey, in late 2016 I realized I could replace all of my userid-on-other-sites junk with the icons down below... Not sure how new of a feature that was!)

[A friendly game of Scrabble in deep space...]
CAT: Hey! I've got you now! J-O-Z-X-Y-Q-K.
LISTER: That's not a word.
CAT: It's a cat word.
LISTER: Juh-ZIX-kik?
CAT: That's not how you pronounce it!
LISTER: What's it mean?
CAT: It's the sound you get when you get your sexual organs trapped in something. "Jozxyqk!!!!"
LISTER: Is it in the dictionary?
CAT: Well, it could be. If you were reading in the nude and you closed the book too quickly. [slam] "Jozxyqk!!!!"