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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.

My nickname derives from a friend's bad handwriting. We used to have a (very immature, but fun) passtime at our house in which we ordered free catalogues and what-not for each other (back in the day when those things were sent out in the mail and you used coupons to order them). He wrote my name on a coupon for a margerine gift catalogue, and the processers got my last name completely wrong. And the name stuck. That must be ten years ago by now. And the rest is history.