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14 June 2007
Help name the new pooch! I adopted this little guy yesterday afternoon and he needs a new name. My friends (if you can call them that) keep coming up with bizarre suggestions, so I turn to Metachat in my time of need...
I'd probably not listen to me, though. I've got associations with probably the top 90% most common pet names. Hell, my dog's named after an ancient Incan term for "sister of the emporer".
AK-47
Fart
Jon Jon Baccardi
The Red Baron
Buckets o' Blood
King Snood
DFENS
Golgi Body
The Missouri Compromise
Sir
Cheese Helmet
Hex Key
A Player to be Named Later
Hilarious Bookbinder
Velvet
Cujo
Jake
Chance
Sammy
Bailey
Baxter
Neil Diamond
Barry Manilow (and when I said no, she called me and sang "Mandy" to me with my name instead)
Barney
Remington
Shaft
Bryce / Tristan (for the frat boy effect)
Google or Wiki
Rusty
Prince
Levi
Vincent
Guido
Hoffa
From my dad (who apparently thinks he looks like a comic book character):
Star
Raven
Sable
Monk
X-caliber
And from my grandmother (exactly as e-mailed):
kanine, ko-ko,kasper kaper karl, karp, kody, keeper, krocus, like crocus, which is sure to dig up or squash down.
I tend to prefer human names, especially those that don't rhyme with my first name, like Barry. You guys are cracking me up!
My black Lab bitch was Lennon. If I ever have a chocolate Lab, he or she will be Clift, for Monty. A German Shepherd or Akita will be Archie, for Cary Grant and the cockroach. How about the last name of your favorite musician, author or actor? If I ever have a black cat, I'll call him/her Buttercup, because when my first godmother used to sing me the song that's what I imagined her to be.
Santos
Labby
Labz
Labzie
Labcoat
Labron
Labby Lab
LL (Lucious Lab)
The Labster
Sugar/Shug
Ossie
Hamas
Selassie
Hamassie
Grand Slam
SharkAttack
Martha and the Vendellas
Vendetta
Coltrane
Cosby
The Burning
Grill
GG (short for Grilly Grill)
NoneMoreBlack!
HELP ME! (so when you call him people will be all "ARE YOU AlRIGHT??!")
FIRE! (so when you call him people will be all "FIRE? WHERE??!")
FUCK YOU! (so when you call him people will be all "HEY PAL, FUCK YOU!")
James
I'm trying out Gus right now - I liked that one from the start, but I don't know if he is a Gus in real life - that may be his myspace pseudonym. Fart will obviously be his middle name no matter what, thank you hellbient. I'll post the final result tomorrow... we're off to the toy store now.
Fart will obviously be his middle name no matter what, thank you hellbient.
No, no, thank the Wino. But please give McDoobish, MD, Coltrane, Duke, Santos, Ossie, Klugman, Smitty, SharkAttack and Mr. Bojangles (that's a new one) your consideration. I feel like there should be a courting session now, where we all spend loads of money taking you out to dinner, buying you fruit baskets, putting you up in fancy hotels, etc., because there's so much at stake. Here's a gold-plated saxophone clock for starters: ≡ Click to see image ≡
While I appreciate a gold plated saxophone clock as much as the next girl, I am going to have to decline. It's Mr. Hugh Janus for the win - Sammy is the name of choice and what the loud, grating machine at the front of the local PetCo has engraved on an electric blue, bone-shaped tag. Nothing but the best for my new pal Sam.
wait, wait - that's me for the win, and Mr. Hugh Janus as default windaddy for reasons that talk to themselves. Er, no. Um, for reasons that are self-explanatory.
Anyway, as a child I knew a black Lab by the name of Sam who was the best dog evar. You haven't lived unless you've shared a a motorboat with a cool dog named Sam on pristine Alaskan lakes.
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