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Mouthy's name came about because he was the kitten in the litter that would sit in the middle of the room and play "Marco Polo" with his litter mates.
Brit here. I've heard of this before on TV programmes. How do you play "Marco Polo"? I thought it was just something where you said "Marco" and someone replied "Polo"...
True Marco Polo is a form of tag played in a swimming pool. "It" has to keep his/her eyes closed. It calls out "Marco" and the other players respond "Polo." It has to find & tag one of the others just from the sound.
Different groups of kids may add their own rules--no getting out of the pool, no diving under water, and so on.
We also had a Velcro once, so named as that's the sound he made when he ran across the couch as a kitten
We've also had
Diddums Rex Rex Miaow Miaow,
Leila (started as Lister and the we realised he was a she)
Morg N' Thorg (shout out to any Bloodbowlers out there) who lived up to his name in terms of temperament.
My brother has cats called Bastet and Uncle Chicken
but my all time favourite was my wife's dog: Bobby F'tang F'tang Ole Biscuit Barrel
Be Nicer To Retail Workers 2K18, also known as: stop being an incredibly shitty human to people just doing their job.
We once had an Attilla (not sure of spelling) who got renamed in a hurry when we found out that "he" was very pregnant.
Don't see why, I had a nun at a school named Sister Mary Atilla. Some sort of Hungarian name I guess. Pronounced the same as Attila
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... I had a nun at a school named Sister Mary Atilla...
A real Attila the Nun?
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We once had an Attilla (not sure of spelling) who got renamed in a hurry when we found out that "he" was very pregnant.
My parents had to do the same thing, but in the opposite direction: it turned out that "she" was a he. How they failed to notice it is beyond me... heck, even the vet had the cat's sex listed as F.
The cat's name was Cleo ("Cleopatra"). I told them that if they want to keep calling him Cleo, his new name should be the Reverend Cleophus James.
"I often look at every second idiot and think, 'He needs more power.'" --Varric Tethras, Dragon Age II
My strangest names for a pair of animals were Ziggy and Stardust. Yup, the David Bowie tune. They were also my favorite vapor of names even though lots of people thought of Ziggy the cartoon.
Yup. The Catholic school I went to from K-2 was decent, she was the K teacher. First grade teacher was old school nasty, she left bruises trying to force me from left handed to right handed. Then my parents told the school in no uncertain terms NOT to do that, but it was sort of too late, I write equally shitty with both hands. I almost wish that my parents had decided to ship me off to boarding school instead. [I never knew it, but Columbia, a private girls school in Rochester NY had actually sent some lady out to try and recruit my parents into sending me when I was just going into first grade. I can vaguely remember some lady coming out to the cottage and playing with me - I didn't find out for years what had happened.]
So, Mary Atila was this really nice sort of gnarley old grandmotherly type nun, perfect for kindergarteners. I have wonderful memories of a few events, a mental snapshot of the room we were in and some of the toys. I would imagine that she had dealt with being a primary teacher for decades, growing old in the job.
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I have two I call Huginn and Muninn. Named such because I had just read a bit of the Edda the week before I adopted them.
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"Hy kan tell dey is schmot qvestions, dey is makink my head hurt."
Hoc spatio locantur.
My bird started out as Avery, but got renamed to Ava when we found the wreckage of an egg in the cage one morning. Since we only had one bird, it wasn't hard to guess who did it.
I said to the bird, "We've known you over a year and a half and this is the first time you did this?" and got back a very worried look that seemed to say, "I'm not sure WHAT I did!"
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I've got a Russian Blue kitty that we call Katya, but her full name is Ykaterina Alexeevna Romanova *mylastname*. Yes, she is named after who you think - I studied entirely too much Russian history (by choice!) in university.
We've had:
Splat (bad idea because a bitch roomie helped this cat live up to her name...to make a long story short I almost killed said former roomie over it -_-)
Noodles
D9
Sparta
Wolfie
Tynan (actually still have her)
Ming (was a Siamese)
Boots
Shoe-Shoe
Simba (who answered to Fuzzbutt McFurr)
Smokey
Patches
...and various other names over the years, but those are the ones that stick out the most.
My cousin had a Splat... so named because she had a habit of jumping from high places and going splat.
My mom had a Patches (but then, who didn't, especially if it was a Calico). Mom also had a Maine Coon, which was originally named by a young me "Little Puff." Now, if you've never known a Maine Coon, they're fairly large cats, and their fluffiness makes them look even larger. "Little" is one thing she wasn't.
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