# Help name this black-and-white cat! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 1, 2010, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541 "2010-12-01T15:15:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/21 "2010-12-01T17:08:14Z")
> [@appleciders](#): > > They’ve already got an orange kitty, who is unfortunately male and already named Jamie. Shame. Name the new one Adam. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/22 "2010-12-01T17:08:46Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > jelly, short for [jellicle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellicle_cats), a black and white cat =) From that link: > [@](#): > > They are featured in Cats, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on Eliot’s work, in which a subplot surrounds the disappearance of the Jellicle patriarch **Old Deuteronomy**. ---
**Author:** ![cruel\_butterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@cruel\_butterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cruel_butterfly)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/23 "2010-12-01T17:15:05Z")
He looks like a shadow… ---
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/24 "2010-12-01T17:27:25Z")
Luna Pixel Dumdum ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/25 "2010-12-01T17:33:44Z")
Batman! No? Okay, I vote for Joey or Oliver because those are the names of my fuzzy overlords and they have so far proven to be fantastic names for kitties. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/26 "2010-12-01T17:40:40Z")
Just don’t name him John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt. That’s my name. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/27 "2010-12-01T17:40:47Z")
Sir Fuzzybottom Whiskerface, esq., Master of All He Surveys ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/28 "2010-12-01T17:49:01Z")
He has boxing gloves on. Rocky. AKA Sir Rockford Huntington because he’s wearing a tuxedo and is probably always hunting for something. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/29 "2010-12-01T17:53:00Z")
Call him Bond. James Bond. ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/30 "2010-12-01T18:06:02Z")
Kato Bruce Lee’s masked character in the Green Hornet. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/31 "2010-12-01T18:11:01Z")
> [@appleciders](#): > > Ideally, we’d like to have a name that focus either on his being black-and-white, or one that focuses on his face looking a little like a mask. Lone. Or Ranger. Or Lone Ranger. Or, going in a different direction, Rexfelis–the Cat Lord from Gary Gygax’s Greyhawk campaign setting. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/32 "2010-12-01T18:12:13Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > Our black and white cat is named Penguin. It was that, or Piano. Or Oswald Cobblepot (i.e. The Penguin). Oswald Cobblepot. Name him Oswald Cobblepot! Other than that, I gotta go with Walter. Anyone asks me what they should name a cat, I always say Walter. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/33 "2010-12-01T18:12:29Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > Just don’t name him John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt. > > That’s my name. Wow. That’s my name too. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/34 "2010-12-01T18:12:30Z")
Can’t see him since that site blocked, so don’t know if he’s really there, so **Schrodinger** might be good. Or **Phantom** for the mask. ---
**Author:** ![nonacetone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonacetone/32/2819_2.png) [@nonacetone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonacetone)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/35 "2010-12-01T18:16:27Z")
I’m going with Claxton. I’ve been trying to get someone to name their pet this for a couple of years, with no good results. Imagine that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/36 "2010-12-01T18:19:21Z")
> [@appleciders](#): > > He came with some ridiculous name like “Kittyman”, so they’re looking for a new one. Sorry but if he came with a name that is his name. Oh you can call him Percy or Skeelers or whatever you like but God knows his name is Kittyman and that is what it really is. So don’t try to change him, love him, he loves you 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/37 "2010-12-01T19:55:56Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Wow. That’s my name too. No, his name is _my_ name too… ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/38 "2010-12-01T20:02:42Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Oswald Cobblepot. Name him Oswald Cobblepot! > > Other than that, I gotta go with Walter. Anyone asks me what they should name a cat, I always say Walter. Ours turned out to be a girl cat, therefore Penguin. Not Oswalk Cobblepot. But it is a great name for a black and white cat. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/39 "2010-12-01T20:17:51Z")
Arthur. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/40 "2010-12-01T20:23:08Z")
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