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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 handle is cheesy pun. I named myself for the famous Soviet era weapon, the Katyusha rocket. I need a diacritical mark u navailable to me on my used iPhone.

Here is a picture of an actual Katjuša Roquette :

http://en.rian.ru/infographics/20110715/165214156.html