# Help rename Five! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 25, 2001, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-rename-five/51753 "2001-01-25T18:50:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2001, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-rename-five/51753/41 "2001-01-31T20:36:53Z")
Any explanation would take _way_ too long or be a spoiler for a very good book. Sapient pearwood is from Terry Pratchett’s DiscWorld series. One of the main characters (Rincewind) owns a magical travel-trunk, called Luggage. Luggage is made of sapient (magic-infused until it has a life and motivations of its own) pearwood. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2001, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-rename-five/51753/42 "2001-01-31T21:11:46Z")
How 'bout **Khamsa al-Ta’ir**? Khamsa is Arabic for, well, “five,” and “al ta’ir” is Arabic for “the flyer,” (hence the origin of the star Altair). ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2001, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-rename-five/51753/43 "2001-06-14T23:12:54Z")
I can’t believe nobody has suggested **5ive**. [sub]I also can’t understand why I’m posting in such an old thread[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Protesilaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-rename-five/51753/44 "2001-06-15T20:24:38Z")
I just want to say that **Felonious Monk** would be a great band name. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-rename-five/51753/45 "2001-06-15T21:00:07Z")
**Mangetout** : > [@](#): > > I can’t believe nobody has suggested **5ive**. I can. How the hell did you even find this? What were you searching on? ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-rename-five/51753/46 "2001-06-15T21:45:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fiver \* > **[“Possible Joe.” Yes, you’re right, that’s from the juvenile novel Danny Dunn and the Time Machine, and I’m very pleased I wasn’t the only one here who read it.** A great SF book for kids not quite ready for Heinlein juvies. Jay Williams wrote it. I think “Possible Joe” is an insanely cool name, and vote for it. (If nothing else, it brought back \ 30 year old memories of that story) If you don’t go with “Possible Joe” )or possibly (“Possible Joeinator”?) I vote for Neville Chamberlin, on the assumption that if you don’t do what I want, you should suffer. 😉 😃 Fenrisinator(?) No. No -inator. Just Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-rename-five/51753/47 "2001-06-15T21:48:37Z")
Dammit, Suckered by a resurrected thread. I say: If it’s older than three months, lock it down! 😃 Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-rename-five/51753/48 "2001-06-15T21:50:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Protesilaus \* > \*\*I just want to say that **Felonious Monk** would be a great band name. \*\* [A dancing stuffed monkey](http://www.hubermarionettes.com/cast/Monkey.html) [A bear-like chemist living in a leafy suburb](http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/U108659) [Something involving “Crime Jazz”](http://www.rhino.com/hotpress/72912pr.html) [Quite funny, not monk related at all](http://www.sweetfancymoses.com/archives.html) [In which there is reference to an actual band named "Felonious Monk](http://www.wrighthanddrums.com/videos.html) ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2001, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-rename-five/51753/49 "2001-06-16T01:51:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by puddleglum \* > \*\*If you are a Simpson’s fan how about **Rory Calhoun** or **Shiney McShine**? \*\* Steve Bennett! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-rename-five/51753.md?page=2)