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Name: Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Joined: February 3, 2005

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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.

"One day," he says, "I too will be so rich that I shall have my photo on the bands of the cigars I offer to my friends. That is my ambition." Will I have another little Pernod? I certainly will have another little Pernod. (Food? I don't want any food now. I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.) There we are, jabbering away as if we had known each other for years. He reads me a letter that he has just had from a girl. What's the matter with it? It seems to me a letter any man ought to be proud to have. All about frissons and spasms and unquestionable réussites. (Chéri, chéri, rappelle-tu-que...) A testimonial, that letter is. But the snag is at the end, as usual. The girl wants a new pair of shoes and she is asking for three hundred francs to buy them.