MetaFilter

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.

When I tried to sign up to Mefi with my usual handle, Epiphanius, I got an 'already in use' error.

Hence the 'not_that_'.

'MetaFilter:'s I have resisted posting:

: There's invective, but at least it's expressed correctly.
- John Farrier

: like a hatchet fight in a dark basement.
- BitterOldPunk

: like firing a nerfball at someone and watching it remove a limb.
- yoink

: We all know the vocabulary of facials and ass-to-mouth and threesomes, but on aggregate those things are mostly just fancy concepts.
- Forktine

: just more BoomGen psychobabble bullshit.
- R. Schlock

: grade-A Bible Code apophenia.
- Mr. Bad Example

: It seems to me to require a kind of super-fluency in multiple Englishes.
- kewb

: it's a sort of positive background radiation in your life.
- Eyebrows McGee

: exciting ideas, good animation, but badly scripted.
- Peregrine Pickle

:Flailing animal panic from the waist down, while everything else is inhuman, impassive and still.
- zamboni