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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.

a "hop 1-2-3" is the basic count in Irish dance. I've been an dancer/ instructor for my than half my life and have probably said hop123 about 1 trillion times and counting...