# Our new kitties need names!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 21, 2009, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435 "2009-06-21T01:36:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2009, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/1 "2009-06-21T01:36:44Z")
Well, we have 2 new kittens. We were expecting to get one, but when we went to the shelter, the gray female “adopted” my wife, and the orange male “adopted” me.
We need to work on names! The shelter is in the town of Melbourne, so I thought we might go with Australian names - but we are not locked into that theme. The male is about 8 weeks old, and the female is about 10 weeks - so they are not related and the names don’t have to match.
The felines in question:
[Awwwww!](http://picasaweb.google.com/rocketsurgerysdmb/NewKitties?feat=directlink)
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### Author:  [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2009, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/2 "2009-06-21T01:41:48Z")
Orange male = Boyd
Grey female = Chelsea
PS - congrats on taking two!
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2009, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/3 "2009-06-21T01:50:12Z")
Well, it’s an English name, not an Australian, but what about Tobermory for one of them?
> **[Short Stories: Tobermory by Saki](http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Tob.shtml)**
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> Full online text of Tobermory by Saki. Other short stories by Saki also available along with many others by classic and contemporary authors.
This classic short story, by H.H. Munro(Saki) is one of my two favorite short stories in the whole of literature. You could call him Toby for short, as is done in the story.
For paied names you could do Victoria and Albert, or John and Yoko, or Brad and Angie, or Westley and Buttercup, something like that.
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### Author:  [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2009, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/4 "2009-06-21T02:13:14Z")
TAZ (for Tazmanian Devil) would be my recommendation for the evil looking orange kitty. He looks to have the same face as one of the evil gremlins in that Speilberg flick.
Gray kitty is too cute. I don’t do cute kitty names.
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### Author:  [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2009, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/5 "2009-06-21T02:19:13Z")
We once had a rather rough looking orange male cat like that.
His name was Scratch.
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### Author:  [@Baraqiyal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baraqiyal)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/6 "2009-06-21T02:23:29Z")
“One of two” and “Two of two”.
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2009, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/7 "2009-06-21T02:38:23Z")
Sand and Ash ?
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### Author:  [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2009, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/8 "2009-06-21T02:42:01Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#):
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> Sand and Ash ?
Scratch and Ash? 🙂
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### Author:  [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2009, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/9 "2009-06-21T04:08:52Z")
I’ve already had an Ash and a Chelsea in the past. All other names are in play.
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### Author:  [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2009, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/10 "2009-06-21T04:45:02Z")
Ginger and Pepper? Or is Ginger too girly for a boy-cat? Cumin?
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### Author:  [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2009, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/11 "2009-06-21T07:12:57Z")
Name one of them Poops!
(you will save some other cat the humiliation down the road)
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2009, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/12 "2009-06-21T10:21:25Z")
Just don’t name either of them John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt.
That’s my name.
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### Author:  [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2009, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/13 "2009-06-21T18:07:28Z")
ZOMG and SQUEEE!!
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### Author:  [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2009, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/14 "2009-06-21T18:15:20Z")
I think everyone should have a cat named Schrodinger. To keep with the theme, name the other one Godel.
(I have had cats, I have never named one Schrodinger).
Kooka and Burra?
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### Author:  [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2009, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/15 "2009-06-21T18:23:09Z")
**Cesare** and **Lucrezia** :).
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### Author:  [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2009, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/16 "2009-06-21T19:08:50Z")
(looking at the ears on that orange cat…)
his name is Spock.
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### Author:  [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/17 "2009-06-22T02:34:29Z")
Well, it looks like the cats have names! I had suggested the orange boy be named “Fry” after the Futurama character. But “Leela” (and “Amy”) were not likely to work for the girl. I told this to my friend (who’s wife used to work for the BBC) and he suggested going with “Fry and Laurie”. Since my wife loves “House”, that stuck!
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### Author:  [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2009, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/18 "2009-06-22T03:03:08Z")
Tom and Lucy. Tom for the tom cat and Lucy because it works well with Tom.
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### Author:  [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2009, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/19 "2009-06-22T06:53:19Z")
If you want Australian names, you want Bruce and Shazza (or Sharon, but Shazza is the nickname.)
Or Russ and Kylie.
🙂
Too late alas.
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### Author:  [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2009, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/20 "2009-06-22T13:46:00Z")
> [@Gleena](#):
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> If you want Australian names, you want Bruce and Shazza (or Sharon, but Shazza is the nickname.)
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> Or Russ and Kylie.
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> 🙂
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> Too late alas.
Actually, Kylie is pretty good! We’ll consider that if Laurie doesn’t take.
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