# Name my Gargoyle! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 20, 2002, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-gargoyle/124794 "2002-08-20T21:46:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Iguana\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@Iguana\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iguana_Boy)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-gargoyle/124794/1 "2002-08-20T21:46:58Z")
I am now the proud possessor of a stone gargoyle that sits on the step outside my house. He has little horns, wings (folded) and sits with his chin on his hands staring out at the world. I have been asking him all day, but he won’t tell me his name. It’s a bit rude the way he ignores me actually, but hey, he’s a gargoyle! Any ideas what I can call him? ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-gargoyle/124794/2 "2002-08-20T22:05:29Z")
Mervin. ---
**Author:** ![Slainte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Slainte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slainte)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-gargoyle/124794/3 "2002-08-20T22:06:37Z")
Pablo ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-gargoyle/124794/4 "2002-08-20T22:32:55Z")
Manny Calavera ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-gargoyle/124794/5 "2002-08-20T22:43:22Z")
Fjordinand ---
**Author:** ![DemonSpawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@DemonSpawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonSpawn)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-gargoyle/124794/6 "2002-08-20T22:50:59Z")
Constable Downspout ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-gargoyle/124794/7 "2002-08-20T22:52:30Z")
Congratulations on your gargoyle-parentage, or at least stewardship. Your gargoyle should be safe for the indefinite future. So far, the German-based “Gnome Liberation Front” has yet to embrace the cause of gargoyle-liberation in a Popular Front expansion of their original ideological commitment. 🙂 Oh yes, the names. Ahem: Screwtape. Wormwood. (C.S. Lewis would be proud.) Uncle Fester. Fester Bestertester. (a Don Martin/MAD mag. reference) Imp-e. (tip 'o the hat to the bizarro TV evangelists, Jack & Drusilla Van Impe.) Are you a football (U.S.) fan? “Sapp” is funny, but something of an in-joke… The Bucs’ Warren Sapp has been in a trash-talkin’ war with the Giants’ Michael Strahan over the validity of Strahan’s breaking Mark Gastineau’s single-season sack record last year; Sapp has been very vocal throughout his career of his intention to someday possess that record himself; unfortunately for him, though, he only managed to rack up six sacks last season. [I say this as a big fan of his: “Sapp, just shut up and execute. And good luck; I didn’t like that giveaway to Strahan, either.”] OTOH, Warren Sapp is at least a generous tipper in restaurants, at least according to one waitron who posted as much to a web site on the subject of celebrities’ tipping (not tippling) proclivities… Adam (as in, short for “adamantine,” and appropriate for a first gargoyle. Tee hee, maybe you should get him a mate!) Felix (ironically happy-sounding, and a bit of a play on “fixed”) Absinthe. All gargoyles are really French, aren’t they? Abby-Normal. Grimace. Michael Jackson (“MJ?”), Joan Rivers, Liz, Liza… (Just kidding! I’m sure your 'goyle doesn’t look anywhere as scary as those celebs!) ---
**Author:** ![TheOnlySaneOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheOnlySaneOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOnlySaneOne)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-gargoyle/124794/8 "2002-08-20T23:21:33Z")
Goliath. Your gargoyle needs to be named Goliath. 😃 _doubts that anyone will get the reference, but oh well_ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-gargoyle/124794/9 "2002-08-20T23:27:37Z")
Is Iggy-Boy named David? are you referring to the cheesy made-for-network-TV sci-fi movie “Goliath Awaits,” starring Mark Harmon? C’mon, give us the reference! (I showed you mine!) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-gargoyle/124794/10 "2002-08-20T23:40:00Z")
I have three Gargies. Their names are George, Bernard and Shaw. George and Bernard were my first two, both somewhat doglike with quite large wings. Shaw is more human looking and sounds a little like yours. I have no life. ☹ Oh, a name: Either Spud or Spike. I think **TheOnlySaneOne** is referring to the cartoon show: Gargoyles. ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-gargoyle/124794/11 "2002-08-21T00:22:22Z")
Is this a boy-goyle or a girl-goyle? Blix, Pox, or Blunder Hugo, Victor, or Laverne Mugwort, Nightshade, or Wormwood Fred, Bill, or Jack [More gargoyle names.](http://www.compugarg.com/more_gargoyles_&_dragons.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-gargoyle/124794/12 "2002-08-21T00:36:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Scrivener \* > **Imp-e. (tip 'o the hat to the bizarro TV evangelists, Jack & Drusilla Van Impe.)** [nitpick] I believe her name is Rexella, not Drusilla…not that there’s much of a difference. [/nitpick] Name? I like **Thunk** , for some reason. It has a good, solid sound to it. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-gargoyle/124794/13 "2002-08-21T00:37:49Z")
Quasimodo. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-gargoyle/124794/14 "2002-08-21T00:47:39Z")
That’s it, Dijon Warlock! Rexella! Gad, they were weird! Always mining the day’s news for evidence of the coming Armageddon… ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-gargoyle/124794/15 "2002-08-21T00:48:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TheOnlySaneOne \* > \*\*Goliath. Your gargoyle needs to be named Goliath. 😃 > > _doubts that anyone will get the reference, but oh well_ \*\* \From the Disney Animated TV show _Gargoyles_. \ I vote for **Angus, The Argyle Gargoyle That Gar-r-r-rgles Ger-r-r-shwin Gor-r-r-rgeously.** And try picking out the source for that, **TheOnlySaneOne**. 😛 😃 ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-gargoyle/124794/16 "2002-08-21T00:54:31Z")
I like Hugo. I also like **Pablo** , of course (20 minute response time… nice!). I believe the Goliath suggestion is from the _Gargoyles_ cartoon of years past. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-gargoyle/124794/17 "2002-08-21T01:06:11Z")
What do you mean"were weird" **Scrivener**? They’re still on TV where I live. Jack’s still blathering on about the EU and the Mark Of The Beast references in newspaper articles and how great it is that Jesus is coming back soon. After telling us about all the horrible stuff that will happen first. Rexella’s still holding up “cute” editorial comics. She’s so flighty, they must bolt her feet to the floor just before taping. Gargoyle name: Mom ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-gargoyle/124794/18 "2002-08-21T01:09:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TheOnlySaneOne \* > \*\*Goliath. Your gargoyle needs to be named Goliath. 😃 > > _doubts that anyone will get the reference, but oh well_ \*\* How about Brooklyn, Bronx, Hudson or Broadway? Or Demona if it looks female?? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-gargoyle/124794/19 "2002-08-21T01:13:48Z")
Here’s an on-line comic strip about a gargoyle— [http://www.greystoneinn.net/](http://www.greystoneinn.net/) enjoy! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-gargoyle/124794/20 "2002-08-21T01:21:26Z")
Howzaboot…Bitey 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-gargoyle/124794.md?page=2)