# I gots a new baby snake! (Wanna help name her?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 7, 2002, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834 "2002-07-07T23:30:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![WSLer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WSLer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WSLer)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/41 "2002-07-09T00:41:58Z")
How about Julia Squeezer? _Ducks and sprints away REALLY fast_ ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/42 "2002-07-09T01:01:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LolaCocaCola \* > \*\*Welp, if it doesn’t have to start with the letter “Y”, then I like Ssssamantha, or Sammy for short. > > I loved Sammy the Snake on Sesame Street. > > 😛 \*\* So did I-in fact, that was the ONLY snake I liked, because real snakes are SCARY! I DO NOT LIKE SNAKES!!! No offense to Henry and Baby Snake, though, they’re cool, but they’re snakes, and I am severely ophidiophobic. How about Yelena? It’s the Slavic form of Helen? Cecilia, after Cecil? You could call her Ssssecilia??? ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/43 "2002-07-09T01:27:19Z")
> [@](#): > > Forgot to mention another movie tie-in for your bouncing baby. Since you’ve got a male named Henry, how about June? That would be her birthday month as well. Um…explaining to 10-year-olds that the snakes are named after the title characters of “an erotic adverture” film…scratch that, explaining to their _parents_…would not be fun. But thanks for the idea. Other ideas I’ve had that just stuck: Emma Baby Yazmine (so I could call her “Yazzy”) Rosie–except for that whole O’Donnell thing Gypsy BTW, **Guinastasia** , “Cecelia” is my school secretary’s name. Don’t know that she’d be flattered! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/44 "2002-07-09T01:39:06Z")
Ooooh…Gypsy is cool! One of my cats is named Gypsy after the 'Bot on MST3K. We call her Gippers, Gip-Gip, Gippersy, Gippy, Gips, Gip, Gippy-Sippy, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/45 "2002-07-09T02:23:47Z")
I’d say call her Scylla, as in Scylla and Charbonis(sp) but I don’t think our resident Scylla would appreciate it. 😛 Oh, Midgard, call her Midgardette, cause she ain’t quite big enough yet. Or Obourous (Snake that swallows its own tail.) How about Smaug, Glaurung, Scatha, or Ancalagon, good names for serpents all. ---
**Author:** ![Heloise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e36b37/32.png) [@Heloise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heloise)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/46 "2002-07-09T03:51:36Z")
I told Jasper I wanted a snake for my birthday and he said no. Pout pout. Heloise is a good name! Or Spot. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/47 "2002-07-09T04:26:55Z")
Huh. My corn snake just grabbed stuff and swallowed it so I didn’t think it was one. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/48 "2002-07-09T04:35:19Z")
Actually, it would be “Scylla and **Charibdes** ”… or at least, that’s how they spell it on the lyric sheet for the Police’s “Wrapped Around Your Finger.” F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/49 "2002-07-09T04:45:56Z")
> [@](#): > > Huh. My corn snake just grabbed stuff and swallowed it so I didn’t think it was one. Huh indeed, **Opal!** But you did say he was about double little baby’s size, which still makes him a bit of a baby. I’m not sure when they start to constrict; my 2nd corn, Cornelius, was a constricting madman (er…madsnake) when I got him at age 8 months, and about 2 feet long. I’ve gone to my Corn Snake Manual (yes, that is what it’s called) and it doesn’t mention when little snakies Grow Into Big Constricting Snakies. It only described the constriction process. I want to say it’s around 6mos or 2 feet, though… ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/50 "2002-07-09T05:10:54Z")
Yiddle. As in “itsa yiddle bitty snake”. ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/51 "2002-07-09T07:29:53Z")
What about Cleopatra? She had a thing for snakes. Also,the Y on the head kind of reminds me of one of her jeweled headdresses. ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/52 "2002-07-12T20:05:37Z")
**WE HAVE A WINNER!** After much consideration (and discussion with the hubby, who, of course, has a say in this) baby snakie’s official name is: **Cleopatra!** The irony of the name opens up a historical mini-lesson, plus, “Cleo” is a great name in and of itself. It suits her. 🙂 Thank all of you for the great ideas! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/53 "2002-07-12T21:41:56Z")
That’s great! Give her a pat for me! (Can you pet a snake?) ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2002, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/54 "2002-07-13T05:43:27Z")
How about Yeats? It’s a boy’s name(she wouldn’t know that though, right?) but it means “waiting at the gates” which I find sort of neat. You might not like names that unusual, but I do. Which is why one of the characters in my stories (see link) is named Price… For what it’s worth, I think baby reptiles are adorable. Especially tortiose hatchlings. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/55 "2002-07-14T04:02:31Z")
Oooh…I’m glad I came up with the name that works! 🙂 Pet little Cleo for me, ok? Oh, and one thing I forgot to mention…you can tell the kids to be gentle with her because snakes were sacred to the Egyptians. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834.md?page=2)