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Joined: September 24, 2001

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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.

In a previous life, I lived in England. Armitage Shanks is the name of a British company that makes urinals (the equivalent of American Standard). That was always inexplicably hilarious after seven or eight pints of Fosters.