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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.

Thus have I heard:

Once UbuRoivas was procrastinating in MetaFilter at Intar Tubes Mountain, together with a great gathering of the sangha of MeFites and a great gathering of the sangha of Lurkers. At that time the Blessed One entered the samadhi that expresses the dharma called "profound illumination" and at the same time, noble UbuRoivas, the bodhisattva MahaFilttva, while practicing the profound prajnamatafilta, saw in this way: he saw the seven subsites to be empty of nature.

Then, through the power of the tubes, venerable Burhanistan said to noble UbuRoivas, the bodhisattva MahaFilttva, "How should a son or daughter of noble family train, who wishes to go beyond the names and the named into the undifferentiated bliss of now?"

Addressed in this way, noble UbuRoivas, the bodhisattva MahaFilttva, said to venerable Burhanistan, "O Burhanistan, a son or daughter of noble family who wishes to practice the profound prajnamatafilta should see in this way:

When the MeFite UbuRoivas
Was Coursing in the Deep Prajna Matafilta
He Perceived That All Seven Subsites Are Empty
Thus He Overcame All Ills and Suffering.

Oh, Burhanistan, Form Does not Differ From the Void,
And the Void Does Not Differ From Form.
Form is Void and Void is Form;
The Same is True For Blue,
Green, Grey and Miscellaneous.

Burhanistan, the Characteristics of the
Voidness of All Posts
Are Non-Arising, Non-Ceasing, Non-Defiled,
Non-Pure, Non-Increasing, Non-Decreasing.

Therefore, in the Site There Are No Forms,
No Feelings, Perceptions, Volitions or Consciousness.

No Post, Comment, Favourite, Flag, Callout or Snark;
No Tag, Flameout, Deletion, Lolcat, Wikipedia or Mushroom Object;
No Realm of the YouTube,
Until We Come to No realm of Consciousness.

No Ignorance and Also No Ending of Ignorance,
Until We Come to No Moderation and Cabal and
No Ending of Moderation and Cabal.

Also, There is No Truth of Commenting,
Of the Cause of Commenting,
Of the Cessation of Commenting, Nor of the Post.

There is No Wisdom, and There is No Attainment Whatsoever.

Because There is Nothing to be Attained,
The MeFite Relying On Prajna Matafilta Has
No Obstruction in His Mind.

Because There is No Obstruction, He Has no Fear,
And He Passes Far Beyond Confused Imagination.

And Reaches Ultimate Procrastination.

The MeFites of the Past, Present and Future,
By Relying on Prajna Matafilta
Have Attained Supreme Pointlessness.

Therefore, the Prajna Matafilta is the Great Magic Spell,
The Spell of Illumination, the Supreme Spell,
Which Can Truly Protect One From All Flameouts Without Fail.

Therefore He Uttered the Spell of Prajnamatafilta,
Saying Ubu, Ubu, Paratubu, Paratubguburoivasvaha!