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Poll is culturally biased! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Poll is culturally biased! (Score:5, Funny)
Star trek then?
Re:Poll is culturally biased! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Everyone has something to name! (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, that's sick (Score:5, Funny)
.... Pronouns (Score:2, Funny)
Simpsons (Score:5, Funny)
or "stichface" (Score:3, Funny)
Homer: [gasps]
Ned: Tell you what -- Homer Simpson here's just about the biggest Atom fan that's ever graced God's green earth. I bet he'd enjoy it even more than me!
Stan: Sure, anything for Neddy. Here you go!
Homer: Wow. Now I have four children. [to ball] You will be called "Stitchface".
Bort? (Score:3, Funny)
[finds vanity license plate rack]
Cool...personalized plates! "Barclay"..."Barry"..."Bert"...
"Bort"? Aw, come on. "Bort"?
Child: Mommy, mommy! Buy me a license plate.
Mother: No. Come along, Bort.
Man: Are you talking to me?
Mother: No, my son is also named Bort.
Re:Simpsons (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Simpsons (Score:3, Informative)
M@
What about naming after the internet!? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:What about naming after the internet!? (Score:5, Funny)
Azzurro Thomas Irie Bumble Dragon Spider Azul Zimmerman-Camdus.
I suggested "Beat me up and take my lunch money" or Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. And yes, that whole name fit on the birth certificate. No, the kid doesn't know how crappy the name is yet, he's only 2. And yes, I did say "first," there is a second on the way, due middle of next month, and we don't know a gender yet so how could they possibly be held to a name....
Re:What about naming after the internet!? (Score:3, Funny)
>Azzurro Thomas Irie Bumble Dragon Spider Azul Zimmerman-Camdus
Of Ulm?
Re:What about naming after the internet!? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What about naming after the internet!? (Score:3, Funny)
And he was kind enough to entrust me with his email password so that I can check his mail if he gets lost. Such a good boy!
Re:What about naming after the internet!? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What about naming after the internet!? (Score:3, Funny)
My Children.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:My Children.. (Score:5, Funny)
I just got an Audi TT, and if I my SO and I conceive a kid in it, the kid's name will be "Backstrain" or "Legcramp".
What's wrong with us people?? (Score:2, Funny)
My cats are old, old enemies... (Score:2)
Beowulf (no, not a cluster) and Grendel.
Re:My cats are old, old enemies... (Score:3, Funny)
My Servers (Score:2, Funny)
Better then gold, silver, blue..
Star Wars (Score:2)
Lately however:
<shameless plug> I've been naming stuff after characters in a movie script [nakedpicc.com] that a friend of mine and I wrote that has since become an online comic [nakedpicc.com] called Naked: People in Car Chases [nakedpicc.com]... oh yeah you should go visit it [nakedpicc.com]
</shameless plug>
Argle (Score:3, Funny)
Former pets of mine:
Oin and Gloin, the rats.
Galadriel and Celeborn, the finches.
Shelob, the spider I captured in the back yard.
None of the above... 80s Video Games (Score:2, Funny)
Fuck yeah.
Then he could say "Rise from your graves!!"
Damn I'm good.
Typically... (Score:2)
Just 'cause I thought all of you would care.
Best Sci Fi of all Time (Score:3, Funny)
My first child (female) will be Romanadvoratrelundar...
umm, maybe not.
Re:Best Sci Fi of all Time (Score:2)
Other options... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Other options... (Score:4, Funny)
On a related note I also went to highschool with a girl named Blue.
Re:Other options... (Score:3, Funny)
At least the first name wasn't Colonel.
Re:Other options... (Score:3, Funny)
Daughter (Score:2, Funny)
Wife woudldn't have it, though...
Not me, but... (Score:3, Interesting)
I, on the other hand, am childfree (woohoo!) so no ratty little annoyances to name things after. And besides, if you name your kid Sisco or Neelix, you'll get what you deserve when they put you in a home years from now ;P ...or is this poll designed so that Mr. and Mrs. Taco can decide on a new name for a future Taco Jr?
Don't know about anyone else (Score:2)
~Chazzf
What about Babylon 5? (Score:2, Funny)
I was going to do Luke and Han, but that's just too damn unoriginal.
Maybe she would have gone for Aragorn and Boromir.
Re:What about Babylon 5? (Score:2)
Why don't you just name him "Desperate For A Shag"?
I answered for the future, does that count? (Score:2)
With 2 exceptions:
1) Rasputin (but only if I want the animal to live for a long time)
2) Karla Cthulhu (Because "Call Of" is such an unwieldy first name)
Of course, given that my wife has some say in these matters, we're much more likely to wind up with names from celtic mythology, which is OK, too.
Good source of machine names (Score:2, Funny)
You can also use it to name your pets. Use it for coming up with children's names, and Child Protective Services might be knocking on your door.
Names (Score:2)
Our pets - we have a dog named Thunder. She was already named when we got her (she was a stray who found her way to my wife's office). So, when we later acquired another puppy, the obvious name to give was Lightning.
So, the only poll option I could choose was "What the hell is wrong with you people." I suppose you could get some decent names from some of the sources mentioned, but I shudder to think that one day Anna will be in school with a kid named Qui-Gonn and another named Jar-Jar.
I don't know what's worse - getting the names from sci-fi or from dreck like Splash. What is up with all the little girls named Madison these days?
Poll Topic (Score:5, Insightful)
I think that'll be more fitting.
Re:Poll Topic (Score:2)
But as for naming children, who in their right mind would name children after science fiction or TV shows? I mean, really? I'm named after an ancestor, and my brother and sister were both given Biblical names, although my parents ensured that they were common biblical names to try and work around the "beat me up and take my lunch-money" factor.
However, when it comes to naming servers... that's when sci-fi and fantasy can come into play. My high-school library named their Macs after Orson Scott Card books - we had Speaker for the Dead, Ender's Game, and various characters from that series as well as others that I can't remember. (Speaker for the Dead and Ender's Game being the newer and more functional computers...)
So yeah, if this poll were about servers, I could have given an answer. So I had to stick with "What the hell is wrong with you people?" - oh well.
(Although right now, I'm using Greek/Roman mythology for my systems at home.)
Re:Poll Topic (Score:2)
in Italy some years back there was a craze for 'The bold and the beautiful' (named simply 'Beautiful' in Italy) and there were all this mothers who tried (and sometimes, poor kids, succeeded) to get their kids baptized with names from the characters of the show (mostly from the male leads).
The puzzling part is that the show dub preserved the *English* names, which made the names proposed by the mothers (sometimes atrociously re-spelled in Italian to preserve the English pronunciation) totally ridicule-prone, as in Italy kids 99% of the time get a Saint's name that has been 'Italianized' in pronunciation and spelling (for example St. Ignacio -> Ignazio).
Fictional? (Score:2)
"Daddy, how come my name is Aurunicadriel?"
"Well son, I thought the name was cool, not really considering how the heck it makes any sense. But think of it this way: if you end up getting sucked through a portal to a far away universe to have fantastic adventures, you'll fit right in!"
[Child runs away crying]
Bernie Mac had a funny quote about this. "What happened to our names? Everybody had normal names. But then Roots came out and now every other person you meet is a Kalanjua or Kaliqua" (or something to that effect).
Free Software heroes (Score:3, Funny)
Perhaps I'll just go with Vash if it's a male...
Another Options (Score:2)
Band Names from the 80's
I've Morgan the Shih Tzu/ Maltese and Guiness the Lasa / Bichon.
Of course, I'm waiting to use the name "Devo" for my rescue whippet.
Would have to go with Sci Fi Books (Score:2)
What about S without the F (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What about S without the F (Score:5, Funny)
I have one cat named Einstein and another named Von Neumann. The looks I get from the vet are priceless :)
Schrodinger would work nicely too.
To those who name their children/pets CowboyNeal (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:To those who name their children/pets CowboyNea (Score:5, Funny)
I don't any have pets yet (used to, though), but my next ones will be named Cow, Boy, and Neal. Unless I get a dog, in which case I'll name it JonKatz.
Re:To those who name their children/pets CowboyNea (Score:2, Funny)
Grip
Re:To those who name their children/pets CowboyNea (Score:2, Informative)
- Julia Prima
- Julia Secunda
- Julia Tertia
If there were just a couple, they'd have names like Julia Major and Julia Minor. Or sometimes Julia and Julilla.Hence, CowboyNealPrimus, CowboyNeilSecundus, CowboyNealTertius, CowboyNealilus. Actually, -ul[a|us] is the latin diminutive[1] (like -ette or -ita), so "little girly CowboyNeal" would be CowboyNealula.
[1] Dracula = little dragon, Caligula = little boots
Re:To those who name their children/pets CowboyNea (Score:3, Funny)
Re:To those who name their children/pets CowboyNea (Score:3, Funny)
C: CowboyNeal the fruit-bat.
S: Are all your pets called CowboyNeal?
C: There's nothing so odd about that: Kemal Ataturk had an entire menagerie called Abdul!
S: No he didn't!
C: Did!
S: Didn't!
C: Did, did, did, did, did and did!
S: Oh, all right.
Video Games should have been an option... (Score:2, Interesting)
Your -KIDS-?!?!? (Score:2)
Come on, with most of our genes, the poor kids have to deal with being a nerd, but the name just means extra beatings for them, and what are the chances its gonna get legally changed when they turn 18 and they'll hate you for a lifetime for what you did?
My son's named after my father.
Children naming pets (Score:3, Funny)
my Boston Terriers (Score:2)
My other dog Pepper Two is the second one, named after my childhood dog. The Atreides family always had a Duncan hanging around, so it's my intention to always have a Pepper hanging around. Each new one will get an incremented numerical middle name.
Re:my Boston Terriers (Score:2)
I name computers after (Score:3, Funny)
My computers are the closest thing I have to children (except maybe my plants.) Being a college student, besides my education, the only thing I've invested any real money into are all my computers. I gave birth to them (built/assembled in most cases). I interact them on a daily basis, probably more so than many parents do with their children! They expect input from me on all important decisions. They never do anything without permission. They go to sleep when I tell them to, and wake up on demand. They consume minimal resources (~$20/mo in electricity maybe) In fact, my children are better behaved and more economical than most 'human' children. =]
At least (Score:3, Funny)
FHQWHGADS [homestarrunner.com]
!!
Keep It Simple Stupid (Score:2)
Pet names will be in the following format:
For example, if I had two cats they would be named "Feline 1" and "Feline 2" in the order in which I obtained them. Of course you all see the problem here--name collisions. If you have a cat named "Feline 1" how is it distinquished from my "Feline 1"? The answer is namespaces. The fully qualified name for my cat would be "Kenneth Martens: Feline 1" and yours would be "John Doe: Feline 1".
Upon transfer of ownership, an animal will be be reinstantiated with a new name. If you already have two cats and I give you my "Kenneth Martens: Feline 1", that cat then becomes your "John Doe: Feline 3". In order that a pet's origins can always be reconstructed, the pet will also retain its previous name in the following form: "John Doe: Feline 3 (Kenneth Martens: Feline 1)".
I submit this beta version of my Universal Pet Naming Scheme (UPNS) to the community for discussion.
Please be careful what you name your children. (Score:5, Insightful)
I've endured 35 years of my name being mangled and maimed. 35 years of explaining it's origins. 35 years of saying "Just call me by my nickname" when someone tries to say my legal name.
Even with all this, I couldn't imagine being named after a movie or TV show character.
What happens when that show falls out of favor?
What happens when fads change?
Think about all those 60's children named Rain, Moon, Sunshine and the like. Alot of them changed their names when they legally could. Children have enough troubles with their parents without having to hate them for their choice of names.
My son was not named after anyone in the family, after any fictional character or any famous person. We though long and hard to choose a name that would not haunt him into his adult life. So far it's served him well.(he's 14)
Touchy subject? You bet!
Re:I totally disagree (Score:3, Interesting)
My last name, on the other hand, is extremely rare and I am very happy with it. It gives me a sense of identity. I think that the key to naming kids is to go for a name that is 1) different (kids should be raised with a heavy emphasis on self-esteem anyhow - so they like being different) 2) easy to pronounce and spell 3) not a noun. Nouns suck, why would you want to be named after a thing?
Computer/Video Games? (Score:2)
What about me? Well, my wife and I have already decided to name our two children, boy and girl preferably, after two characters in Lucasarts' cult classic Afterlife [lucasarts.com]. Jacob and Aria don't sound like bad names, do they?
What about UNIX commands? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:What about UNIX commands? (Score:3, Funny)
No Tolkien? (Score:2)
That said, I don't have any kids or pets. My wife has a cat but technically it doesn't exist. (Don't ask.)
Hans and Frans! (Score:2)
Godfather (Score:2)
It's a trick!! (Score:2, Funny)
He is trying to find clues as to your passwords for the pr0n sites you visit! (based on your browser window's history, accessible via javascript.)
Fizzgig (Score:2)
And I know this guy who has 4 cats (born at the same time) who's names are War, Pestilance, Famine, and Death. He said Pestilance was the cute one.
~Will
Some Names Are Real. (Score:2)
Nintendo games (Score:2)
Mario, Luigi, Zelda, Link, Toad, Princess, Nestor, Chaos, Wyvern, Gold Gollum, Justin Bailey, Simon Belmont, Alucard, Samus, Tetris, etc.
who did i forget?
My children.... (Score:2)
I don't know what the big deal is.
My laptop is known as the Millennium Falcon.
My Sun Sparc is R2D2
My game machine is simply "lightsabre".
Amidala is the name of my iMac.
My web server is Yoda.
My old 486 is Bib Fortuna.
My Windows machine is the Rancor Monster.
Huh? What do you mean those count as "children"?
Computer Naming (Score:2)
my star trek name (Score:2)
Daughter (Score:2)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Character (Score:2)
what about naming servers... (Score:2)
Linux (Score:2)
Family names. (Score:2)
Now, boxen, on the other hand...
Scotch! What is wrong with you people? (Score:2)
--Jim
How about Biblical characters? (Score:2)
Sorta odd for an atheist, but they're good names anyway.
Try to get some outside insights (Score:2)
How's this for lazy? (Score:2)
I don't have kids (and don't ever plan on changing that), but even if I did I don't think I would carry this naming scheme on to them.
Rigged poll (Score:2)
After anime?! (Score:5, Funny)
Miki: Who was I named after, Daddy?
Me: You were named after Miki Koishikawa. She fell in love with Yuu, whom she didn't stop seeing after she found out that they were siblings.
Meiko: What about me, Daddy?
Me: Well, Meiko Akizuki slept with her high school teacher.
Hideki: Well, I guess my namesake can't be any worse, right?
Me: Well, that depends. Would you mind that he fell in love with his computer?
Ranma: Ha ha, you guys all suck. There's no possible way that my namesake is as weird as all that.
Me: Okay, kids, that's enough of that.
I'm going to name my kid... (Score:3, Funny)
Why?
I don't know, the idea just came to me.
I named my cats after the elements... (Score:5, Funny)
I guess now I should train the three to come when I call them all together: "Here, Deuterium!" We could get ride of the male and have hyrdogen...
Thank god. (Score:4, Funny)
Of course, we almost named our dog Spock.
Does that make me a total geek?
Why is everyone laughing at me?
Hello?
I name them what their name is. (Score:3, Insightful)
I tell people that the animals tell me what their name is. It doesn't make much sense, but it ends up working. So far I've had a girl cat named Piper, a boy cat named Dinsdale, another boy cat named Lynx, and we just got a puppy named Gigi.
network pets (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Common names (Score:2)
I think this makes me a horrible person.
Re: Why? (Score:5, Insightful)
The world out there falls into three categories- works of "god", works by other people, and works by yourself... and well the first two are significantly greater than the third.
A lot of people name their kids after characters in one specific book, which happens to fall into the first and second categories being the word of God but written by many people. Thinking how many people give their kids biblical names, it's a bit difficult to generalize and say they're all lame and "not really experiencing much".
Have you tried to come up with an original name? I did, I came up with several for my son. "Broccoli Hexafloride" was one. "QZXY" was another. Of course, I didn't use either, I didn't want my son getting beat up in school. But more importantly, although creative and unusual, neither had any significance for me.
We give our kids certain names for two reasons- to honor the past, and to give the kid a destiny. We want our sons to be just like their great grandfather, so they too can become brave firemen. We name our daughters after their aunt, who was a fiesty, hardheaded woman who never took no for an answer and travelled around the world in search of adventure because we want our daughters to grow up strong in spirit.
Of course, not all of us have such namesakes, so we name them after our heros. My son is named after Alexander the Great (I wanted Alexander Darius but got overruled by the wife). Others pick Michael Jordan as their hero.
Some pick Bible names. Some pick Qur'an names. Some pick names from "Gone With the Wind". Some pick names from "Peter Pan". Are you saying everyone who ever named their daughter "Wendy" wasn't experiencing enough? Think Dave Thomas here.
Naming a kid after a SF/Anime hero doesn't mean anything except the parents thought that character had some qualities that the child should grow up to embody- no difference whatsoever from parents picking names biblical names for the same reason.
Re:the next poll should be.... (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, I offered to lick her...I've got the scars to prove it.
Re:What kind of name is Julian for a cat?? (Score:4, Funny)