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i named my dog yarbles
after that fall song on This Nations Saving Grace

― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Sunday, 1 February 2004 06:20 (twenty years ago) link

Anyone else do this?
i'm bored......

― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Sunday, 1 February 2004 06:21 (twenty years ago) link

How about ILMers whose parents named them after songs? ;-) (Not that there are Beach Boys songs that my dad loves with my name.....)

― lyra (lyra), Sunday, 1 February 2004 06:33 (twenty years ago) link

have a cat named Octofish and two dogs named Limp and Bizkit..

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Sunday, 1 February 2004 14:33 (twenty years ago) link

How do you keep from kicking the dogs all the time?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 1 February 2004 15:55 (twenty years ago) link

snap!

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Thursday, 5 February 2004 19:13 (twenty years ago) link

When my partner and her daughter moved in with me a couple of years ago they brought a cat that answered to the name of Ellie.

Since then she's been subjected to me singing "Eloise" at her so much that she's now convinced it's her name.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 5 February 2004 21:34 (twenty years ago) link

My computer at work is named Jarvis (after Cocker). Does this count?

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 5 February 2004 22:51 (twenty years ago) link

sorry, Jarvis is not a song

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 5 February 2004 22:52 (twenty years ago) link

Just to be clear, I don't talk to my computer and treat it like a pet, but every computer in the department needs a name on the network, and mine is Jarvis.
However, it may be too late for you all to think I'm not wierd.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 5 February 2004 22:54 (twenty years ago) link

i've got a friend who named his dog isis. its a good name for a pooch i think

― gallantseagull, Thursday, 5 February 2004 23:04 (twenty years ago) link

I started at a job where the computers were already named... Mine was Manilow.

I think Barabajagal would be a good name for a dog.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 6 February 2004 13:08 (twenty years ago) link

I called my hamster Gruff after the singer from super furry animals, does that count? It was also because the band once had a hamster called Stavros, i thought it was appropriate.

― Kate Jane Connolly (fixitgirl), Friday, 6 February 2004 13:18 (twenty years ago) link

one of my kitties is called Linus, which is a song by Birdie

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 6 February 2004 13:19 (twenty years ago) link

Way back when in 1989, I named my burmese cat Bez, and it turned out to be an apt name as he used to get smashed off his brain on catnip and fall around. Now he's old and arthritic and lives with my parents.

Many years later, another cat of mine was burdened with the name Snowball (from the first Field Mice album), but that was truncated to Snowy by pretty much everyone, and anyway she didn't last long. The two cats in our house now have sensible names as the ones I named non-sensibly have ended up dead.

― Rob M (Rob M), Friday, 6 February 2004 13:25 (twenty years ago) link

Was snowball a black cat, by any chance?

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 6 February 2004 13:32 (twenty years ago) link

Nope, mainly white with a tortoiseshell tail. Lovely looking cat. Gone but not forgotten.

― Rob M (Rob M), Friday, 6 February 2004 13:39 (twenty years ago) link

seven months pass...

Our two dogs are named after Kinks songs: Lola and Watts. And before you ask...no, their is no ambiguity about their sexual orientation.

― Asthmatic Cajun (Asthmatic Cajun), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link

two years pass...

I have some friends who named their cat Carlos (after Santana) - i remember he had markings on his face that looked like a moustache.

I had a barn cat that made batch-after-batch of prime-grade kittens. One litter begat Cat Power and Peetie Wheatstraw.

― christoff, Monday, 10 September 2007 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link

I always name my pets after rappers (songs a bit harder):

Q-Tip
Wheezy
Missy (Misdemeanor Elliot)
Big Poppa
Lil' Mama
Scarface
Chingy

― Ms Misery, Monday, 10 September 2007 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link

You guys are nerds.

(My wife and I name all our tropical fish after characters from George RR Martin's fantasy novels).

― Jon Lewis, Monday, 10 September 2007 18:40 (sixteen years ago) link

I had a kitty named Jeepster

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 10 September 2007 18:40 (sixteen years ago) link

I named my kittens Yuko and Hiro in high school. And that's two threads I have mentioned Blur in, back to back.

― Finefinemusic, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link

I am Sore Tempted to go out and find a dog in need of adoption just so I can name him Lick the Balls.

Well, no, not really.

― Telephone thing, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link

Our dog's name is Veruca. Half for the band, half from Willy Wonka.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link

Our dog is named Jolene. We live in the South.

― city worker, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link

six years pass...

would love to name a pet Aikea-Guinea

― OutdoorFish, Wednesday, 18 December 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link

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