Patton Oswalt on Tonight's Best Show 7/10/07

[Richard_From_CHI]

Grumpus is one of the top ten best dog names ever.

[Omar]

Grumpus is one of the top ten best dog names ever.

Top 3:

3. Funyuns
2. Dogmo
1. Mr. Belvedere

[erika]

Favorite nick-name: Grump-man-du

[Sarah]

The other day, my brain failed me, and I called Zach "Boxer."  Now I wish I'd named all my animals so straightforwardly:  Boxer, White Mutt, Black Mutt (renamed from "Large Black Mutt" after Small Black Mutt died a few years ago), Girl Cat, Boy Cat (the last two have always been known collectively as "the blacks").

Another good name for Zach would have been Spot, since he has just one, so it would have been nicely precise.

[Richard_From_CHI]

as we are veering off topic, my wife and I have not seen eye to eye much on baby names (october 27th!!!!!) and maybe something like "You" or   "Kid" would be a good direction to go in.

[Sarah]

"Offspring," I think, which can be modified to "First Offspring" if necessary.

[Sarah]

P.S.  I love it when threads take detours.  Makes 'em more like real conversation.

[buffcoat]

I would name my hypothetical pet Yakub, after the evil mad scientist who the Black Muslims say created the white man 6,000 years ago.

I would do it just so I could tell that story every time someone asked about his name, because I find the idea that my ancestors were created by an evil mad scientist to be waaay more compelling than many of the other creation stories out there.

NOW this thread is off course!  Damn straight!

[TL]

Why don't you just go with "You," "Kid," or "Offspring" until he or she is, like...  say... four years old, and then let the kid pick his or her OWN name?  That could be interesting...  

And for the record, I'm thinking of this more in an experimental case-study kind of way than a hippie kind of way.

[Chris L]

My Grumps

My Grumps

My Lovely Lady Grumps

[erika]

as we are veering off topic, my wife and I have not seen eye to eye much on baby names (october 27th!!!!!) and maybe something like "You" or   "Kid" would be a good direction to go in.

Spawn!

I used to have a dog named Sammy Davis because he was black and jewish and my mother is a bit of an odd duck. She originally wanted to call him Theodore and call him "The Beaver" but we vetoed that idea immediately.

PS. Has everyone purchased or downloaded Patton's CD yet?? Hmmmm?? If you don't like toilet talk, you won't like it. But I prefer to think of "cuss words" as nice punctuation to make a story or joke just a little more lively. That, and I have a vocabulary like a whiskey-drunk sailor.

[Martin]

Here's a great name for a dog, or a kid, but perhaps mostly a dog:

Fletch!

[dave from knoxville]

When I was 7 or 8, I got a dog, and I really really wanted to name him Scooby, like the cartoon dog, but I was wise enough to know that I would get laughed at and beaten for naming my dog after a cartoon dog, so I came up with an homage to Scooby that I knew would throw all the nay-sayers off of my trail.

I named him Scubby.

The neighbor across the street laughed at me, and said I was too chicken to name him Scooby, and he started to call ME Scooby.

So I drowned him. Which was a mistake, because his kickball skills were wicked, and my team was never the same. Well, not MY team, technically, but the team I would watch from safely from the other side of the fence, pretending I was a vital member.

Now our dog's name is Pepper.

[Richard_From_CHI]

Why don't you just go with "You," "Kid," or "Offspring" until he or she is, like...  say... four years old, and then let the kid pick his or her OWN name?  That could be interesting... 

And for the record, I'm thinking of this more in an experimental case-study kind of way than a hippie kind of way.

I swear I met someone who picked their own name at 3 or 4, and they picked something stupid and were unhappy with it. I wish I could remember the situation and whether or not their name was cookie monster or not.

[Richard_From_CHI]

Here's a great name for a dog, or a kid, but perhaps mostly a dog:

Fletch!

Playing fetch would be confusing.