# And \_\_\_\_\_\_ was his name-o

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 20, 2000, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-______-was-his-name-o/22972 "2000-06-20T12:48:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2000, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-______-was-his-name-o/22972/61 "2000-06-22T12:29:32Z")

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At least I have finally found some people that don’t roll their eyes when I suggest Rebound.

Although in fairness, I initially wanted Rebound to be a middle name for a son. I wasn’t overly serious, but that did kind of brand me as a nutjob.

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**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2000, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-______-was-his-name-o/22972/62 "2000-06-22T12:41:34Z")

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Screw it. Go with Sparky.

Rebound is cool, too.

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**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:** [June 22, 2000, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-______-was-his-name-o/22972/63 "2000-06-22T18:37:12Z")

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Hell, if you’re open to names that will make your neighbors raise their eyebrows, how about calling your dog “Ballsy”? Distinctive sound, ends in a vowel… meets all the criteria. And, you can tell people it’s short for “Balzac.”

Actually, now that I think about it, “Balzac” is a **really** cool name for a pet, and not just because of the _double entendere_ so appropriate for a male dog. Maybe some other European writers would provide inspiration: Proust, Voltaire… hmm…

Anyway, the distinctive-sound rule is a good one. We named our cat “Tybalt” (after R & J), and he figured it out very quickly. He even comes when we call him, probably because nothing he’s likely to hear will sound anything like it, so the reinforcement isn’t undercut.

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2000, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-______-was-his-name-o/22972/64 "2000-06-22T19:00:01Z")

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If you want a distinctive name, than call him Piotr Dmitrovich Snrczyrski. That’s a great name for a dog, and it will look good on his dog tag.

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**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2000, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-______-was-his-name-o/22972/65 "2000-06-22T19:33:14Z")

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> \*\*  
> Sacagawea  
> \*\*

Or Jean-Baptiste (Sacagawea’s son.)

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**Author:** ![jesuslynch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jesuslynch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesuslynch)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2000, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-______-was-his-name-o/22972/66 "2000-06-22T20:01:16Z")

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I’d like to recomend just good old plain Spot.

Here Spot.  
Sit Spot.  
Come Sp…no that won’t work.

Sparky sounds good.

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