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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.

motivations: cereal, LOLs
intent: create stuff and enjoy games of chance

SOME THINGS I LEARNED HERE

• Ponies aren't juvenile horses, yo!
• that Superego exists, and happens to be the funniest thing ever
• the slits in the sides of lab coats are so that you can get things out of your pants' pockets
• What lodestar means
• Some pants/shorts have drawstrings that are one continuous loop
• George Mann took fantastic photographs of Los Angeles in the 1950s and 1960s.
• How wonderful Charles Pierce is.

I discovered MeFi via a Fark mention of the Sleep is Where Ralph is a Viking thread and I never looked back. Other favorite threads:

• It's a parking lot on the southbound 101 this morning
  Why do people in Los Angeles usually refer to their numbered highways with "the" (for example, US 101 is "the one-oh-one")?
  
• Sitters Vs. Standers – The Great Wipe Hope
  In April of 2007, College Humor conducted an informal poll of their readership's (ahem) wiping habits.
  
• Note to self: invest in a deadbolt.
  When Brandon left for camp, his last words were, "stay out of my room!" Unfortunately for Brandon, he has the meanest most awesome family in the entire world.
  
• Consider the following... (Enough links about Bill Nye to last a lifetime!)
  
• Should I pay to replace a rude guest's shawl?
  Does etiquette require me to replace the shawl of a dinner party guest that she ruined while out walking our property?
  
• If you really want the help of parents, maybe don't start by insulting them?
  If you really want the help of parents, maybe don't start by insulting them? Lots of deletions, lots of parenting/breastfeeding flame-war brushfires being put out in this thread.
  
• Dear friend, here's the card for a babysitter. The party's on Saturday night.
  Miss Manners Filter: How can I diplomatically mention to friends that their infants are not welcome at my upcoming birthday celebration?

Other MeFites who are former cheesemongers: rtha, jacksemas.

Potential new user names if I ever BND: Mulled Whine, king hat, I'm not gonna debate you, Jerry

I got a pony!

Proudest MeFi Moment: being voted #1 by the quidnunc kid.