Sessy

My father, for as long I have remember, has had a special nickname for me when he was feeling particularly fatherly - Sessy, which is a shortened version of the longer (spelled here phonetically)  Ses-a-re-a-fil-a-pi.  I never really knew what this meant - just always accepted it as my nickname.

That is, until about a week ago.

I was bored and searching Google for random* sites.  On an impulse, I typed out how I thought my nickname was spelled - Sesareaphilipi.  No google hits.  I manipulated the spelling and finally Google suggested "Caesarea Philippi", an old Roman city.  According to Wikipedia, the site has some Christian significance as well as being a place where a whole bunch of dudes decided to name a city after themselves.  Now, as a fan of the random article button on Wikipedia, I was appreciative of the information.  But why does my Dad keep calling me that?  What relevance does this old, dead city have with me?

None, it turns out.

I asked my dad about it.  Apparently he just made it up - Sessarea-fill-a-pie.  I used to call myself Sessy (not sure why - it really has no real connection to my name).  He just expanded the name a bit.  And yes, he knew about the city - that's one of the reasons the nonsense nickname took that name.  All of that research and fuss over ... nothing.

Sound familiar?

* A note - the use of the word "random" is not intended to promote the idea that these searches were random in a statistical sense of the word.  To all statistics enthusiasts, please substitute the word for "different".