# Your chance at fame: Name that cat **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 14, 2000, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-chance-at-fame-name-that-cat/29282 "2000-08-14T13:45:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-chance-at-fame-name-that-cat/29282/21 "2000-08-14T21:34:36Z")
Fitting, since the Bianca rooms are where you first got interested in my pussy. _groan_ ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-chance-at-fame-name-that-cat/29282/22 "2000-08-14T21:35:37Z")
So when do I get to see your pussy? ---
**Author:** ![tradesilicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tradesilicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tradesilicon)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-chance-at-fame-name-that-cat/29282/23 "2000-08-14T21:49:40Z")
Please Cranky, don’t condemn any creature just for having a penus. There are those of us with penuses who are still worthwhile life forms. 😉 Cat names are so much fun. I like Chairman Meow. Another winner - Chekov. Depending on the cat’s personality, this may also be a fit - Cecil. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-chance-at-fame-name-that-cat/29282/24 "2000-08-15T02:07:06Z")
How about Castle? After all, he got out of a tight spot in that shelter, and that’s what castling in chess does. ---
**Author:** ![dev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@dev](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dev)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-chance-at-fame-name-that-cat/29282/25 "2000-08-15T02:37:28Z")
How about Food. It’d sure be funny to be outside calling out for food. dev ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-chance-at-fame-name-that-cat/29282/26 "2000-08-15T02:47:38Z")
JoeyHemlock beat me to Gambit, so how about N. Pussant? Blue, for Deep Blue, the chess-playing computer Katsparov ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-chance-at-fame-name-that-cat/29282/27 "2000-08-15T04:23:41Z")
Chess related: Grandmaster? That’s the only chess-related term I can think of that hasn’t been suggested. Architecture: Roman, Doric, Corinthian, Ionic, Byzantine, Gothic, Baroque, Palladian I’ve toyed with the following names for cats: Loki, Damian, Lucifer, Merlin, Wizard, Hades, Vulcan, Zeus. ---
**Author:** ![randomlyblanks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@randomlyblanks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randomlyblanks)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-chance-at-fame-name-that-cat/29282/28 "2000-08-15T04:53:42Z")
WallyM7 ---
**Author:** ![randomlyblanks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@randomlyblanks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randomlyblanks)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-chance-at-fame-name-that-cat/29282/29 "2000-08-15T04:55:06Z")
No case needed! ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2000, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-chance-at-fame-name-that-cat/29282/30 "2000-08-17T15:59:38Z")
I’m curious,did you decide yet Cranky? ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2000, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-chance-at-fame-name-that-cat/29282/31 "2000-08-17T16:16:22Z")
Regrettably, no. I even started a contest at my office with a MONETARY PRIZE! I have to run the entries by my husband and see if we like any of them enough to settle on them. For about an hour, the cat was Taliesen, Tal for short, which is both architectural and chess-related, woo-hoo. But it didn’t fit. I do have a photo, now, to post. [http://www.zing.com/mypictures/inbox/view.html?url=http://www.zing.com/picture/p7a39221ffe2c0cd3ea8f7104599c644e/ff7b541d.jpg&caption=The%20New%20Nameless%20Cat&id=4286272541](http://www.zing.com/mypictures/inbox/view.html?url=http://www.zing.com/picture/p7a39221ffe2c0cd3ea8f7104599c644e/ff7b541d.jpg&caption=The%20New%20Nameless%20Cat&id=4286272541) Sorry that’s so long. ---
**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 17, 2000, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-chance-at-fame-name-that-cat/29282/32 "2000-08-17T18:10:09Z")
I second the motion for Gambit. Knight’s Gambit? Night Gambit? ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2000, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-chance-at-fame-name-that-cat/29282/33 "2000-08-17T18:35:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CrankyAsAnOldMan \* > I burned up most of my energy trying to get our baby named back in 1999. I need assistance. I will consider all serious entries, even if you’re submitting your own SDMB User Name. But you have to make a case for whatever you submit. Arnold Winkelried, the great swiss independence hero, would make a great name for a cat. All the other cats would be afraid to mess with him. (More details about the courageous and heroic Arnold Winkelried available upon request.) Chess-related: Nimzowitch, the chess player who pioneered many unusual and off-beat chess openings. Good for a cat that is slightly eccentric. “En Passant”, for the cat who likes to wander. “En Passant” is french for “in passing.” “J’adoube”, for the lazy cat that likes to be petted. “J’adoube” is the official expression when you’re rearranging a chess piece on the board but don’t attend to move it. Some other chess openings (or players) that are catchy names: Caro-Kann, Giuoco Piano, Ruy Lopez. I personally think “Ruy Lopez” has a very nice ring to it. Architecture - not my forte. How about one of post-and-lintel, arch, vault, dome, truss. Those of course would be chosen according to the cat’s body type. I also seem to remember that an architect tries to respect the three principles of firmitas, utilitas, and venustas (something like stability, space and beauty). Maybe one of those words would fit. ---
**Author:** ![Yankee\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7ea924/32.png) [@Yankee\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yankee_Blue)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2000, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-chance-at-fame-name-that-cat/29282/34 "2000-08-17T18:41:43Z")
Cthulu Xenos Pandora Chewbacca Oedipus ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2000, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-chance-at-fame-name-that-cat/29282/35 "2000-08-17T18:50:49Z")
That’s what I wanted to name my second cat, but my SO balked. We settled on Julius, so she can call him Jules. But Agamemnon is a fine, fine name for a cat. MR ---
**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 17, 2000, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-chance-at-fame-name-that-cat/29282/36 "2000-08-17T19:29:46Z")
Architecture: Crennalatted Battlement? Facade? Dorian? BTW, one of my cats is name Jack after the boxer Jack Johnson. One can get to carried away. ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2000, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-chance-at-fame-name-that-cat/29282/37 "2000-08-17T19:34:14Z")
Completely unrelated to any of your criteria, I humbly submit **slant**. ---
**Author:** ![A\_girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@A\_girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_girl)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2000, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-chance-at-fame-name-that-cat/29282/38 "2000-08-17T20:12:05Z")
My cat just had four kittens. We named them George, Paul, Ringo, and Spooky Poop. 🙂 A girl ---
**Author:** ![SaxFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SaxFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaxFace)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2000, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-chance-at-fame-name-that-cat/29282/39 "2000-08-17T20:43:03Z")
How about “Cad” after Auto-Cad? It would also be funny because it sounds like you’re saying “Cat” with a stuffed up nose. Hm, maybe that’s not funny, but I think Cad is a pretty cool name. ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2000, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-chance-at-fame-name-that-cat/29282/40 "2000-08-18T07:19:50Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried \* \*\* > [@](#): > > Chess-related: > Nimzowitch, the chess player who pioneered many unusual and off-beat chess openings. Good for a cat that is slightly eccentric. > > “En Passant”, for the cat who likes to wander. “En Passant” is french for “in passing.” > > “J’adoube”, for the lazy cat that likes to be petted. “J’adoube” is the official expression when you’re rearranging a chess piece on the board but don’t attend to move it. > > Some other chess openings (or players) that are catchy names: Caro-Kann, Giuoco Piano, Ruy Lopez. I personally think “Ruy Lopez” has a very nice ring to it. > \*\* More chess related names: Petrosian, Botvinnik,Capablanca, Lasker, Spassky, Alekhine: all world champions(?) “En prise” “fianchetto” “zugzwang” “Zwischenzug/intermezzo” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-chance-at-fame-name-that-cat/29282.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-chance-at-fame-name-that-cat/29282.md?page=3)