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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.

Johnny Zbobo was the default name of any run of the mill, man on the street person my buddies and I would mention in latenight weekend conversations back in high school. We'd say things like "Just because a million johnny zbobo's bought his album doesn't mean sammy hagar has talent." Then we'd argue for a few hours about it before finding a tangential argument to go off on. I don't know if the name came from our circle or was ripped off from somewhere. Probably ripped off.