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Name: Stella
Joined: February 7, 2005

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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.

We were at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, watching feeding time at the otter tank. After enthusiastically disposing of a fish, one male otter was floating on his back, grooming his fur -- and quite obviously pleasuring himself with his clever little paws.

As the scandalized mothers towed their children to a safer exhibit, my friend Kris just managed to gasp one word before sliding to the floor in giggles.

"Ottereroticism."