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Re: Name That Fish
« Reply #15 on: December 19, 2004, 05:17:05 PM »
Hey, that's not a bad idea.  Except that then I'd want to eat him.  And I'd be afraid he would slither out of his vase and disappear.  
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Re: Name That Fish
« Reply #16 on: December 19, 2004, 06:52:06 PM »
I'd be more worried that he'd slither away. I know *I* wouldn't want to eat an amorphous blue blob...I mean, a betta fish. ;)
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Re: Name That Fish
« Reply #17 on: December 19, 2004, 07:34:22 PM »
Aww...amorphous blue blobs are my *favorite*!
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Re: Name That Fish
« Reply #18 on: December 20, 2004, 11:47:55 AM »
I name everything after literary characters or authors. My laptop was Miguel, for example. I have a dozen things named after comic book characters.

You could name him Curry (after Arthur Curry/Aquaman)
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Re: Name That Fish
« Reply #19 on: December 20, 2004, 12:05:56 PM »
I've always had trouble coming up with good names for pets. Perhaps this is why it never occurred to me while growing up to name my stuffed animals, and I've never really named plants or cars, either.

I used to name my cats after composers--one of my favorites was Chopin. The rabbits kind of got named after their colors (Snowfoot, Butterscotch), and the horses often got names based on a combination of sire and dam--so Boomerang + Charmin' Cherry = Cherryboom, who we called Boomer. Bullet got his name because he was a silver Arabian (silver bullet).

The best name of a pet we ever had was a name we couldn't come up with ourselves. My pony, Ginger, had a colt, and I think we went a week trying to figure out what to call him. We live on a highway, so a new colt always attracted people to stop by, wanting to play with him. This woman stopped with her daughter and wanted to call him over to them, and asked what his name was. We said we hadn't thought of one yet.

So she called out, "George! C'mere, George!" and he came to her. It stuck.
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Re: Name That Fish
« Reply #20 on: December 20, 2004, 02:58:36 PM »
That's a cool story.  Maybe I should try calling the fish and see what name it comes to.  
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Re: Name That Fish
« Reply #21 on: December 21, 2004, 03:00:41 PM »
Maybe he is Shadowfax, Lord of the Fish.
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Re: Name That Fish
« Reply #22 on: December 21, 2004, 06:46:36 PM »
Shadowfax is the name of my car.
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Re: Name That Fish
« Reply #23 on: December 22, 2004, 12:02:11 AM »
shadowfax is the name of my fax machine...
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Re: Name That Fish
« Reply #24 on: December 22, 2004, 04:05:17 AM »
At this point I'm leaning toward Hadrian.  Is that pronounced Hay-dri-an as in Make or Ha-dri-an as in Apple.  

I'm looking at that and it makes no sense to me.  And I wrote it.  That's a bad sign.  

What I'm trying to say is, long A sound or short A sound in the first syllable?

Now that I think about it I could probably just look it up somewhere, but I'm lazy.  

Then it occurs to me that maybe it's pronounced some other way, which means it must be late and my brain has stopped working.  So I'm going to quite while I'm behind...here.
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Re: Name That Fish
« Reply #25 on: December 22, 2004, 05:18:21 AM »
I've usually heard it pronounced Hay-dri-an.
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Re: Name That Fish
« Reply #26 on: December 22, 2004, 07:50:41 AM »
Both. And the wall is quite close to where I live.
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Re: Name That Fish
« Reply #27 on: December 22, 2004, 09:27:48 AM »
I've only ever heard Americans pronounce it Hay-dri-an. And Americans are always right.
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Re: Name That Fish
« Reply #28 on: December 22, 2004, 11:27:04 PM »
how about naming it Dagon?
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Re: Name That Fish
« Reply #29 on: December 22, 2004, 11:37:04 PM »
Dagon. I like that one.
Reminds me of one of my professors who refered to everyone who doesn't hold a degree in fine art as "ignorant philistines."
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