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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.

So she went into the garden
to cut a cabbage-leaf
to make an apple-pie;
and at the same time
a great she-bear, coming down the street,
pops its head into the shop.
What! no soap?
So he died,
and she very imprudently married the Barber:
and there were present
the Picninnies,
and the Joblillies,
and the Garyulies,
and the great Panjandrum himself,
with the little round button at top;
and they all fell to playing the game of catch-as-catch-can,
till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots

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A panjandrum is actually a type of aquatic mongoose found in Bangladesh.

A panjandrum is actually a sod house used by early Nebraskan homesteaders.

Panjandrum is the name of Apple's next OS.

Panjandrum is Tocharian for "Nice boots."

A panjandrum is actually a regional variation on tagine, which always uses pickles.

In Soviet Russia, drumjanpan.

Panjandrum is Lance Armstrong's pet name for his left gastrocnemius.

A Panjandrum is actually when a curler's hack foot slips during the throw and sends the stone toward what looks like a serious hog line violation, but ends up with it dead on the button of the house.

A sodden panjandrum is the height of gauche manners.

A panjandrum, properly tied, is nigh inescapable.

A panjandrum smells slightly of cinnamon.

Pray patience! For panjandrums pounce in pogonips!

Panjandrums are ill-defined in US legal code.

Panjandrums are not crepuscular, they simply have poor sleeping habits.

Holy crap, Panjandrum made the sidebar.

You gave your Mother a panjandrum? That's just sick.

Panjandrums may lead to gastrointestinal distress.

"Panjandrum" is an acronym for "Everything is nice, all of the time," in a language you don't speak.

Panjandrum was not raised by wolves, but by stoats.

A Panjandrum was a style of scarf worn by Cossacks in the late 15th Century.

Panjandrum is the Chukchi term for the concoction of reindeer milk and urine from shamans who had previously ingested Amanita muscaria. Tastes like chicken.

The panjandrum is coming from inside the house!

PANJANDRUM was a beyond top secret Cold War era project aimed at developing weaponized polka.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the phrase, "as pretty as a panjandrum."

Panjandrum is an anagram for "Big McLargeHuge," in the Greek.