From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 7 03:35:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA15994 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 03:35:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA15985 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 03:35:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.7/8.6.9) with ESMTP id DAA28179; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 03:34:28 -0700 (PDT) To: Greg Lehey cc: Marco Molteni , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Chuck image being used in a sex ad In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 Oct 1997 19:03:55 +0930." <19971007190355.52064@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 03:34:27 -0700 Message-ID: <28148.876220467@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > We've discussed this a number of times already. Kirk claims that it > was a "Walnut Creek marketing droid" who invented the name Chuck. A > number of the FreeBSD people, I think including Jordan, claim that the > name has been around a lot longer, and that de facto, his name *is* > Chuck. I first heard him called Chuck back in 1985 sometime, at UCB. My first reaction was also "*what?*" since it seemed a strange name indeed for an imp with sneakers, but it's sort of grown on my since then. Having to say "the bsd daemon" when referring to the little guy is a bit heavy on the d's and I think he started getting called Chuck more for convenience than anything else ("pick something short"). :) Jordan