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GETTING PUPPY NEED NAME HELP PLZ =D =D =D
OKAY GUYS.
SO.
I AM GETTING A PUPPY.
This Friday! In fact! PUPPY IS COMING. I am super duper excited and also terrified.
However, one thing is still uncertain.
WHAT TO NAME THE BUGGER.
For this! Noble folk of the internets! I request your assistance.
... Okay so. I figure it is first necessary to show/explain how we name our pets here. Hint: we are NERDS.
Past pet name highlights:
Sherkhan: orange tabby cat, named after the tiger in The Jungle Book
Pi-rat: used lab rat I adopted -- sounds like "pirate" but at the time I was a math/physics major and the pun should be obvious
Attaq'l: Betta/Siamese fighting fish I had in high school, a spelling play on a verb I made up around then, "attackle", an affectionate attack-tackle
In other words: NERD NERD NERD
Now then! Currently we have three cats. They are called (nicknames in parentheses):
Fenrisúlfr (Fenris, as the former breaks down to "Fenris wolf"): A silver tabby, kinda wolf-coloured, but sadly, dumb as a rock. I love him so. Named after the monstrous wolf of Norse mythology, son of Loki and sun-swallower.
Xerxes (Xerx): A fiendinshly clever bugger, and a consummate strategist. Youngest and runtiest, but still head cat around here. Well deserving of his name, though it was initially a joke, because he was so tiny but also so clever, and we thought it would be cute to give the feisty runt an august name. He is now HUGE. Named after Xerxes the Great (Xerxes I). Well before 300, thanks.
Salvador Dali (Sal): A classic tuxedo cat. Named such because he is very melty and floppy and just kind of oozes out of your arms because he is too lazy to maintain muscle tension. Recalls particularly the watches in Persistence of Memory.
SO um I hope you can now see some TRENDS >.>
Anyway, so the dog we're getting is a Pembroke Welsh Corgi. They are super clever and ridiculously happy dogs and have adorable bunny-butts.
We would like an appropriately nerdy name but have a few candidates we like and are stuck. We would like to decide ASAP because the pup's coming home on Friday and we need to start teaching the name! Incidentally, gender is not of much concern to us -- we want a personality/energy level match, and we are first-time dog owners, so we're leaving the choice up to the breeder, in the end. Likewise we're not TOO worried about the name matching the gender -- it's a dog, who cares?
Also, hilariously INappropriate names are also welcome! For example, we had been reserving the name Tacitus for the German Shepherd we hope to own one day, as a sufficiently Serious Name for Serious Dog -- but Tacitus was also a snarky, bitter, BITTER historian, and I love him to pieces and so while the name sounds pompous and serious, what it actually means to us is a really smart guy with interesting opinions. And then we decided, sure, why not name a bouncy little Corgi that, with this pretentious serious Latin name XD
Anyway, here are the candidates! Feel free to vote, express thoughts, and suggest others, especially any appropriately Welsh or Brittanic ones =)
Provided is the full name and the shout-across-a-field version:
Ragnarok (Rags)
Ozymandias (Ozzy)
Amaterasu (Ammy or Tera)
Schrödinger (Rody? Dinger? uhhh no clue but it would be funny because then the cats can be, uh, Schrödinger's [herd of] cats? XD)
Pavlov
Tacitus
=D =D =D
SO.
I AM GETTING A PUPPY.
This Friday! In fact! PUPPY IS COMING. I am super duper excited and also terrified.
However, one thing is still uncertain.
WHAT TO NAME THE BUGGER.
For this! Noble folk of the internets! I request your assistance.
... Okay so. I figure it is first necessary to show/explain how we name our pets here. Hint: we are NERDS.
Past pet name highlights:
Sherkhan: orange tabby cat, named after the tiger in The Jungle Book
Pi-rat: used lab rat I adopted -- sounds like "pirate" but at the time I was a math/physics major and the pun should be obvious
Attaq'l: Betta/Siamese fighting fish I had in high school, a spelling play on a verb I made up around then, "attackle", an affectionate attack-tackle
In other words: NERD NERD NERD
Now then! Currently we have three cats. They are called (nicknames in parentheses):
Fenrisúlfr (Fenris, as the former breaks down to "Fenris wolf"): A silver tabby, kinda wolf-coloured, but sadly, dumb as a rock. I love him so. Named after the monstrous wolf of Norse mythology, son of Loki and sun-swallower.
Xerxes (Xerx): A fiendinshly clever bugger, and a consummate strategist. Youngest and runtiest, but still head cat around here. Well deserving of his name, though it was initially a joke, because he was so tiny but also so clever, and we thought it would be cute to give the feisty runt an august name. He is now HUGE. Named after Xerxes the Great (Xerxes I). Well before 300, thanks.
Salvador Dali (Sal): A classic tuxedo cat. Named such because he is very melty and floppy and just kind of oozes out of your arms because he is too lazy to maintain muscle tension. Recalls particularly the watches in Persistence of Memory.
SO um I hope you can now see some TRENDS >.>
Anyway, so the dog we're getting is a Pembroke Welsh Corgi. They are super clever and ridiculously happy dogs and have adorable bunny-butts.
We would like an appropriately nerdy name but have a few candidates we like and are stuck. We would like to decide ASAP because the pup's coming home on Friday and we need to start teaching the name! Incidentally, gender is not of much concern to us -- we want a personality/energy level match, and we are first-time dog owners, so we're leaving the choice up to the breeder, in the end. Likewise we're not TOO worried about the name matching the gender -- it's a dog, who cares?
Also, hilariously INappropriate names are also welcome! For example, we had been reserving the name Tacitus for the German Shepherd we hope to own one day, as a sufficiently Serious Name for Serious Dog -- but Tacitus was also a snarky, bitter, BITTER historian, and I love him to pieces and so while the name sounds pompous and serious, what it actually means to us is a really smart guy with interesting opinions. And then we decided, sure, why not name a bouncy little Corgi that, with this pretentious serious Latin name XD
Anyway, here are the candidates! Feel free to vote, express thoughts, and suggest others, especially any appropriately Welsh or Brittanic ones =)
Provided is the full name and the shout-across-a-field version:
Ragnarok (Rags)
Ozymandias (Ozzy)
Amaterasu (Ammy or Tera)
Schrödinger (Rody? Dinger? uhhh no clue but it would be funny because then the cats can be, uh, Schrödinger's [herd of] cats? XD)
Pavlov
Tacitus
=D =D =D
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