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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 nickname came from a piano duet with which I fell in love and couln't find anyone to play the secondo with me: Liszt's Rhapsodie Hongroise.

For a while, I was rhapsodie_hongroise, but became tired of typing the whole thing out.
And in chat rooms, most people could only see rhapsodie_hon and thus called me hon.
That was uncool.

Bada bing, bada boom, I shortened it to rhapsodie.