The Evolution Of A Nickname

Everyone has a nickname or two. These can be inside-joke nicknames, nicknames to identify a person with a common name, or something else completely.

My friend Charlie (who has been mentioned on here quite a bit) has had an evolving nickname pattern since mid-summer.

One night when we were drinking he came out and said that his last name backwards was Semen. For those of you who are following... you would realize that he made a grave mistake in telling immature teenagers (and Fro) that your last name is Semen backwards.

So, many people started referring to him as Semen or Charlie Semen, my fault.

Well, one day when Fro and I went to Charlies house for a bike ride and his mom referred to him as Chuck.

This means I had more to work with.

I slowly spread it around that his name was Chuck Semen, something only I found funny, I think.

Somehow, I heard different incarnations from different people who had different versions of his nickname:

Chuck-a-nut
Chuck Widmore (LOST reference, nooch)
Charlie Balls
Semen Chucker

All of those are pretty dumb, but I'm proud that I have evolved a simple nickname into a progressively growing language. It's like SimCity, really. You start small and eventually it grows into it's own environment.

Soon, I want a language and a cult to sprout from a simple nickname. People start speaking semeniese and worshiping Charlie's Quake 3 account.

Either way, good times.

- Josh