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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.

Sadly, I stole this nickname. Some friends and I in college used to use the name Bob Bisquick as a cover for filling out surveys, answering obnoxious telemarketers, and generally harassing TV add 800 numbers. Bob developed a rather extensive personality and history, much of which I don't remember, for reasons that should be fairly obvious to the typical 20 something unemployed person. He ran a magazine called Soup to Nuts which covered any subject that suited the specific scam of that day. One friend went so far as to take a tour of some kind of factory explaining it away as "research!" I was never so bold as to use Bob in face to face situations. All in all fairly harmless, if sophmoric, but still damn funny. If you're in to that sort of thing.