You got a nickname? I got like fiddy (50) of 'em. So does my friend Eric "Ponch" Buchanan. Of course Ponch is one of his and also the one used most. Otherwise we would be calling him Eric "ACE" Buchanan, and not Ace as in the "Ace of Base" or something. "Ace" as in A.C.E. as in I don't know. Often times in the closing credits of a movie you'll see a name Jauness Wagner, A.C.E. That kind of "ace". Ponch thought it was pretty cool, so he added it to his list of nicknames. Perhaps it means this.
One day we decided that single name "nicks" simply wouldn't suffice. Shortly thereafter we came up with full name nicknames where our original nicknames were lowered in status to nicknames of nicknames. From that day on we became:
Eric=Dabby Dean "Ponch" Burgoyne
I=Billy Dee "Domis" Lime
We came up with these names one day while sluffing school in Dabby Dean's (see how that works? We're still talking about Ponch, er, Eric), room after growing bored of playing NES.
Last November, A.C.E. and I were emailing back and forth and he was asking me about the new "town" I live in which can by no strech of the imagination (even while on drugs), be called a town. It isn't even really homes loosely grouped together--more of a peice of county land someone decided to give the awesome name of "College Ward". As our email chain continued, we decided that College Ward needed to be united and I would be the first mayor. Along with this came a new nickname which is more of a rip off than an homage to one of my favorite TV shows, Futurama.
So, even though the citizenry may not know it, those College Wardians are all secretly governed by Mayor Billy Dee Mechaleckahighmeckahineyho Poopenmeyer (yes, we also liked Pee Wee's blue-faced genie Jambi growing up as well).
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Chesno Nicknames
Posted by Chesno Slova at 7:17 AM
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What I wanna know is: why College Ward? Why not University Stake or Tech School Branch or summat else? MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE, no doubt.
So what does secret governing entail? Please tell me it involves digging a vast cavern below the city and filling it with pudding. I'd pay to see that.
Actually, ward in this sense is the Eastern US meaning of ward--region, area, district, zone etc. The college part came from Brigham Young. He owned huge tracts of land all over Utah (not surprisingly), and the land in the middle of Cache County where I live was part of it. A month before he died, he gave that land to the Utah Agricultural College (current Utah State University). It was literally the College's Ward (or zone, region, or whatever). A couple years later, the college began to let people settle the land and farm and ranch it (much as it is today). Many years later the college became a university and the name became completely obscured. That is today's history lesson of Northern Utah.
As for secret governance . . .
The cavern plan failed as it all filled up with water from our high water table, so we ate all the pudding. Now, it is mostly sending decrees through cyberspace to Ponch so he knows how he should act when he comes to visit. Perhaps I will post a decree or two here in the future.
I think that if you don't already know, you should become familiar with the decrees of Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_A._Norton
Plus, he issued his own currency! How cool is that?
Norton I, is a pretty cool guy. I was particularly interested in all of the pop culture references at the end of the entry. Pretty cool stuff.
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