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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 brother invited me to his dorm in college to destroy me utterly at Halo (and I went because his RA often dropped by to play Street Fighter III), and I decided I suddenly wanted a new handle to replace what I'd been using for years at that point. I'd recently re-watched the Homestar Runner Decemberween pageant toon and found the name "Doctor Christmas" utterly delightful, and combined that with the sort of hat I wore (and still do, though only with proper outerwear, so hush, you), and there you have it.