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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.

Horace Rumpole is the protagonist of John Mortimer's "Rumpole of the Bailey" stories, and the BBC TV adaptations. He's sort of like Matlock, if Matlock was a portly British guy who quotes Wordsworth and drinks red wine by the gallon.