Timewaster's Guide Archive
General => Everything Else => Topic started by: 42 on May 18, 2004, 08:50:52 PM
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So my 3-year-old niece told me the other day that she wants a guinea pig and she wants to name that guinea pig "Couch." How can you say no to that?
So what make good pet names for animals, rocks, cars or Spriggan?
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I want to get a hedgehog and name it Velcro.
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I wouldn't suggest naming anything Roadkill. It's just WILLING something to happen...
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I had a mission companion who had a dachshund at home named "Demieu" as in "Demieu! Get off that couch!"
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I really want to get a snake and call it 'HorseHam' after an insane IRC using Icelandic nutter I know. Spends all his time playing DAoC - he has two level 50 characters.
Wierdo.
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I like to give my pets funky/historical names
dog:magnus
Cat:neitchie(is that how you spell it?)
other cat: Asimov
My sisters pets
Jellyfish:1
Jellyfish:2
Jellyfish:3
Octopus: fido
Octopus:spot
eel:jarvus
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See I also like to give my pets historical names. There just something empowering about having Julius Ceaser as your pet hamster.
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I just posted this under the 'Bacon" topic. I need sleep.
One of my friends had cats named Hemmingway and Michaelangelo (Mike for short). Then they got a dog and named him Galileo.
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My father-in-law had a cat named Dammit! when he was in college...then he took it home to his parents' house, and the name changed to Dawg (he couldn't see his mother standing on the porch saying "Here Dammit!)
I used to have a dog named Hillbilly (I was five, and I named it after my "Hillbilly hat."
We also had a Wuppy (the puppy)
and my cousins were the proud owners of Maybe (as in Maybe we'll keep her, maybe we won't)
During my senior year of college, my roommates and I had a red and blue beta fish that we named Dr. Suess (red fish, blue fish...)
I also really want to name a hedgehog Pinpiggy.
I don't really want an octopus, but if I had it, I would name it Cthulhu.
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I had a friend who once owned a rabbit named Veto. It got that name because it was his mom's response to all of his other suggestions for names.
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Oh and we had two other cats, jules(verne) and a devon rex(egyptian cat) named tut
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Thinking of the naming pets after authors.
Someday, EUOL will be a reknown author with great fame and power, and I will name a hamster after him.
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If you do, that had be one devilishly handsome hamster!
Anyway, my pets have some pretty standard names. My bird, who many of you know, is named Beaker. As for my fish, all of the koi have been named 'Stupid' in a different language. The Oscars generally get named after dark gods.
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If I ever had a pet Panda I'd name him Panden.
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I definitely see Sprig having a pet Giant Panda. He kind of resembles one, which gives credence to the theory that people get pet they resemble.
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Hey! HEY!!!! I have a dog. Her name is Tammar (after the wallaby... and if any of you foreigners ask me what a wallaby is.... well, its a small kangaroo. You know what that is, right?) She is quite intelligent (she has been trained to play hide-and-seek etc.). But she has no common sense. eg. She's chasing a butterfly, running quite fast, butterfly goes over parked car *BANG* dog goes *into* parked car. So anyway, my point is that I would rather *not* be likened to me dog. Thank you very much.
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http://doors.stanford.edu/~sr/tasmania/wallaby-pouch.jpg
Is size the only difference b/t a wallaby and a kangaroo?
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As far as I know, a Wallby and a Kangaroo look similar, but are quite different, though similar, animals. That is, they're different speciies and everything, but act the same way. Although they move differently, and have a different type of balance, or something.
They also make a fine stir-fry. :)
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so do Koalas, though I prefer a roast.
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I live in an apartment, so we can't have pets. I do, however, have a plant (a Hawaiian Scheflera) named Admiral Horatio Nelson. I like the idea of giving pets ranks.
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I named my guitar (angelica) and my car (Ninja) and my computers: Fluffy and Squish (haven't named the current one, probably I'll call it "Crap").
I once had a hamster named Jaws. Which you think is ironic until you see one of those beasts yawn.
We had dogs: Helga the Dachshund, Grun Doon the Glum (basset hound), Opus (after the penguin, it was a hairy beast, part shelty, part whatever-got-over-the-fence, with black and white coloring) and the current dog at my parent's house is Abby, short for Abigail. As in Adams. As in, the president's wife.
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My cars all have had names. My current one is Shadowfax. Then there was The Mayflower, Dimples and Suicide.
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Hey -- me too: My last car was Beverly, and my current on is Sussudio.
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My parents used to own this big Chevy Van. It was the "Klingon Battle Cruiser." Jeffe and I have been riding around in it with our toy Klingon Disrupters. Yes, childish, but also fun. Because of this, when my parents got smaller cars: Ford Escorts, they instantly became "runabouts" and were named after shuttles in Star Trek.
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My computer is occasionally called 'Nineveh'.
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My computer is occasionally called," YOU SEE THAT WINDOW?", while my family car and the one I will be using in a few months is mostly called "If you make it up this one hill..."
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I had a horse named George once. None of us in the family could think of a good name for him, and one day a lady and her daughter stopped by (we live on a highway) to see the new colt they'd seen from their car as they were passing. She asked his name, and we told her we hadn't thought of one. So she said, "C'mere, George!" and he came to her. It stuck.
Most of my horses' names have grown out of the names of their sires or dams, though. Like my colt Gingerbread was out of my pony Ginger, and our other colt Boomer, whose nickname was short for Cherryboom, was out of Cherry and sired by Boomerang.
Then there's our dog Shady, short for Shady Lady, because all she ever seemed to do was lie in the shade.
I did have a cat named Chopin for a while. But usually they were more mundane names. We've had 2 or 3 Tobys over the course of the last 20-25 years. The current dog is named Skippy because she once got her head stuck in a peanut butter jar as a puppy.
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On a related note: Does anybody have a good name for a robin? A robin has taken over my flower planter and built a nest. I figure if I'm going to have an uninvited "pet bird," I might as well name it.
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Arrow catcher.
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Batman
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Meat