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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.

Bill Hicks: "Wouldn't you like to hear a positive LSD story on the news, just to hear what it's all about? Just once? 'Today a young man on acid realised that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration; that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is a dream, and we are all only the imagination of ourselves...now, here's Tom with the weather'... 'Wow did ya see the news - something about how 'we're god's holy and perfect thoughts and we live in his mind and there is no reason to suffer or lack.. ever... I thought it was sorta newsworthy...'" Now that's the play ethic.