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.
Shortly before joining MeFi, a then-recent ex-girlfriend described me as a dangerous mix of the worst parts of Ferris Bueller, Thomas Crown and Alvie Singer. At the time, the quote struck me as both wildly funny and oddly flattering; it was on my mind when I joined up, et voila!
