Help name our new cat

In My Humble Opinion
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Stately Mercotan Manor has been without a full-time cat for a while now, but the Mrs. changed that up this week when she adopted (with my consent) a 3-ish year old feline by the name of “Sandy”.

Now, living on the beach as we do, we both agree that having a cat named Sandy is too precious to allow. We plan to rename him.

Here’s the conflict: I love my proposed name for him, she doesn’t care much for it.

She likes her name proposed name for him much better. I find it an okay name, but it doesn’t thrill me with the name I prefer.

So please vote for the name you prefer!

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How are we supposed to decide without a photo?

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Is the Dope’s poll result binding on the Mrs. ?

Also, a photo would help. :slight_smile:

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Whiskers von Clawfoot McPurrington

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When this is over, you have to explain the etymology of “Wowbagger.”

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We need pictures…how can we decide without any pictures?

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:eek:

Douglas Adams died in vain.

Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged.

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Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged is a character from Douglas Adams’ Life, the Universe, and Everything who became immortal after an unlikely accident involving a particle accelerator, and some rubber bands. After a while he got bored, so to ease his boredom he decided to insult every intelligent being in the universe in alphabetical order.

It’s also the name I voted for, since cats have a way of being soooo goshdarned cute even when they’re insulting you.

ETA: darn you to heck, Skald!

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I don’t like any of them. It can’t be Sandy. I agree that under the circumstances, it’s too cutesy. The other two suggestions are… well, I can’t imagine liking a cat with either suggested name.

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Huh. I’ve read all of Douglas Adams’ stuff, and I completely forgot about Wowbagger.

Cool! I can start reading it again!

Zaphod, Arthur, Ford, Marvin, et all, here I come.

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How about Allesandro, Sandford or Alasdair, all could be called Sandy.

Or How about Koufax?

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If I had to pick one it would be Genghis I suppose. Although I’m not too fond of it, try Cleetus instead.

It’s what I’ll be naming my dog when I get him.

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Archie.

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Machine Gun Monkey!

But if that won’t do, I’d go with Robert Guiscard and refer to him as “Bob the Weasel.”

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I don’t like any of the proposed names, so I suggest Florian!

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Fido. There should be a cat named Fido.

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Pixel.

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Be that as it may, “wowbagger” sounds like an obscure species of sexual fetishist. I don’t know what wowbagging is, but I’m sure it’s illegal in Utah.

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I think it involves receiving fellatio while the female is raiding Firelands.

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Oh, gosh. I just went to the pet store the other day and bought four goldfish for my pond. I named the smallest ‘Pixel’. Within days, he came to an unfortunate end.

So I can’t endorse that as a name, although I obviously thought it was great at the time.

<heavy sigh…>

So…how 'bout a pic? I like ‘Koufax’ - how about ‘Lefty’? Takes the reference down another notch and I kinda like that. :smiley: