# An unkillable cat needs an unkillable name **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 6, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unkillable-cat-needs-an-unkillable-name/484724 "2009-02-06T17:30:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unkillable-cat-needs-an-unkillable-name/484724/21 "2009-02-06T18:26:52Z")
Well **Frodo** was deemed killed three or four times but always got better. Seems like a good cat name, too. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unkillable-cat-needs-an-unkillable-name/484724/22 "2009-02-06T18:26:58Z")
Well, if she’s looking for biblical references I suppose she could go with Moses or Job, both characters who triumphed over difficult circumstances. Zero is a great name. Or, since he was found behind a lettuce fridge…Iceberg or Romaine. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unkillable-cat-needs-an-unkillable-name/484724/23 "2009-02-06T18:28:10Z")
Kane died…a few times. ---
**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unkillable-cat-needs-an-unkillable-name/484724/24 "2009-02-06T18:29:32Z")
No offense to the oh so melodious “US Federal Sugar Subsidy Program,” but these are getting really good. As an aside: “Niner”? “Eighter”? I’m either tired, daft, or out of the loop. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unkillable-cat-needs-an-unkillable-name/484724/25 "2009-02-06T18:31:49Z")
“Cold to the bone” but unkillable? Why “Hemlock” of course… as in Dr. Jonathan Hemlock. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unkillable-cat-needs-an-unkillable-name/484724/26 "2009-02-06T18:33:03Z")
**Osiris** - another resurrected god. **Ed Teach/Thatch** - the historical **Blackbeard** , quite Rasputin like. To quote: \*Teach was reportedly shot five times and stabbed more than twenty times before he died and was decapitated. Legends about his death immediately sprang up, including the oft-repeated claim that Teach’s headless body, after being thrown overboard, swam between 2 and 7 times around the Adventure before sinking. \* > [@Birdmonster](#): > > As an aside: “Niner”? “Eighter”? I’m either tired, daft, or out of the loop. Running low on those nine lives, don’t you know ;). ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unkillable-cat-needs-an-unkillable-name/484724/27 "2009-02-06T18:33:38Z")
> [@Borborygmi](#): > > The US Federal Sugar Subsidy Program? I missed this. This is awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unkillable-cat-needs-an-unkillable-name/484724/28 "2009-02-06T18:36:02Z")
Frank, after [patron saint of animals](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_of_Assisi). ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unkillable-cat-needs-an-unkillable-name/484724/29 "2009-02-06T18:37:39Z")
Logan? Wolverine? Methos! Agrajag? Marvin? ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unkillable-cat-needs-an-unkillable-name/484724/30 "2009-02-06T18:39:55Z")
Jason Vorhees ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unkillable-cat-needs-an-unkillable-name/484724/31 "2009-02-06T18:42:24Z")
Subzero? Actually, I’ve got a soft spot for pravnik’s suggestion: Wowbagger. ---
**Author:** ![maladroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@maladroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maladroit)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unkillable-cat-needs-an-unkillable-name/484724/32 "2009-02-06T18:42:33Z")
Achilles - mostly invinceable ---
**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unkillable-cat-needs-an-unkillable-name/484724/33 "2009-02-06T18:44:55Z")
> [@](#): > > Running low on those nine lives, don’t you know ;). So “daft” was the answer. I feel dumb now. But thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unkillable-cat-needs-an-unkillable-name/484724/34 "2009-02-06T18:44:58Z")
**Cockroach** or **James Bond** ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unkillable-cat-needs-an-unkillable-name/484724/35 "2009-02-06T18:47:53Z")
> [@maladroit](#): > > Achilles - mostly invinceable Yes, much better for a cat than a dog… “Heel Achilles, heel!” ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unkillable-cat-needs-an-unkillable-name/484724/36 "2009-02-06T18:53:18Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Yes, much better for a cat than a dog… “Heel Achilles, heel!” oh, \*\*lieu \*\*- I knew we could count on you. (Seriously, how do you get through your day without collapsing in secret giggles due to all the \*quippage \* (new word coined just for you) going through your brain?) I got nuthin’ - maybe Nemesis, since they always come back… Ffaulkes, after Dumbledore’s Phoenix? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unkillable-cat-needs-an-unkillable-name/484724/37 "2009-02-06T18:58:23Z")
Kevlar. Because he’s bulletproof. ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unkillable-cat-needs-an-unkillable-name/484724/38 "2009-02-06T18:58:33Z")
You’re sure he’s a him? If it was a girl you could name her Thomasina after the Disney movie. ---
**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unkillable-cat-needs-an-unkillable-name/484724/39 "2009-02-06T19:01:05Z")
> [@Emily\_Litella](#): > > You’re sure he’s a him? If it was a girl you could name her Thomasina after the Disney movie. Yes indeed, it’s a male. But we’re also in San Francisco, so, well, let’s just say all suggestions will be considered. ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unkillable-cat-needs-an-unkillable-name/484724/40 "2009-02-06T19:14:57Z")
Prometheus? He’s brought warmth into your lives and he is most definitely resilient. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unkillable-cat-needs-an-unkillable-name/484724.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unkillable-cat-needs-an-unkillable-name/484724.md?page=3)