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14934. robertjayb - 5/12/2005 3:44:44 PM My Uncle Babe (actually a great uncle) was never named by the family. He was Babe. As a teenager he left the central Texas farm for a town job and met a storekeeper he admired name of James Asbury. He took the name and became James Asbury Smith. But in the family he was always Babe. 14935. PelleNilsson - 5/12/2005 3:46:36 PM Hobo? Isn't that a down and out character found where the freight trains stop? 14936. judithathome - 5/12/2005 4:04:31 PM Yes, it is.
I've always liked the name Taffy. Especially for caramel colored dogs. 14937. alistairconnor - 5/12/2005 4:16:43 PM I've got an American friend near us who has a dog named Taffy.
I saw my daughter write down the name as "Toughie". That was how she heard it.
Question of accent. 14938. thoughtful - 5/12/2005 4:17:58 PM Well, if you saw this dog, you'd realize hobo was pretty appropriate...he was an airedale terrier/sheep dog mix and looked pretty ratty most of the time. Though he was a very good dog, very affectionate and protective. 14939. thoughtful - 5/12/2005 4:19:38 PM friend spent a lot of time in the south and said he knew a man named general washington. His first name was general. 14940. PelleNilsson - 5/12/2005 4:25:06 PM I don't know where I picked up 'hobo'. Steinbeck perhaps.
Karo is a classical Swedish name for a dog which I like (the name, that is). It is probably derived in some obscure was from Charon, the chap who for a fee rows you across Styx to the realm of the dead.
Considering that the pup is a female I propose Carrie. 14941. thoughtful - 5/12/2005 6:19:33 PM Does a dachshund need a german name? Frau Bluecker?
friend had a little bichon....musta had a french name, right? wrong...they called him Murray.
We've always given our pets human names, like trixie, emily, george, thaddeus, travis, tanya. My FIL named their animals after their characteristics...dummy, knucklehead, fiddlefoot. But i've not been a fan of regular pet names like spunky and fido and blackie. We did get a hamster once when I was a kid on St Patrick's day. Named her Erin-go-Braughless. 14942. wabbit - 5/12/2005 7:38:53 PM Frau Bluecker! thoughtful beat me to it! 14943. arkymalarky - 5/12/2005 7:50:00 PM This stuff is great!
I'm at my parents' today until late tonight, so I don't have free rein of a computer, but y'all have given me quite a bit to think about wrt names. I love Frau Bleuker (neeeeiiighhh!).
You're right, Ulgine--no hurry. I've met the puppy once and it will be over two weeks before she gets here.
I thought about Vida today, as a scramble of Diva that means "life," but I don't think I should go there. This pup was born the day of my hysterectomy, so there may be some possibilities there.
"Pervert" cracked me up. We had a cat named Spot and I had a friend who had a cat named Dammit. So we said "out damned Spot!" and he said "out Dammit!"
Lots more good tips, Mac, especially on the bedding. I will definitely use them. She will sleep in her little carrier in our bedroom, but not by our bed. And she won't sleep in our room until she is used to being at our house and quits whining. We'll put her in the room next to us and keep it dark.
Mags, what kind of dog are you and Flexy looking at getting? 14944. PelleNilsson - 5/12/2005 8:02:18 PM Remember Nurse Diesel? Diesel is a fine German name. But what about a Russian name? Natasha? Kalinka? Olga? 14945. Magoseph - 5/12/2005 8:13:13 PM We don't know yet--I leave that decision to Flexy's daughter-in-law who runs a private animal shelter in Chicago.
She's having a party for him the 4th of July for his birthday. The dog will be given to Flexy then.
14946. judithathome - 5/12/2005 8:27:29 PM Arky, what about Kashi? It's very good, Bob loves it already, and it's good for you! 14947. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 5/12/2005 9:03:37 PM I like Schopenhauer or Nietzsche.
Here Nietzsche! Come and get it, Schopenhauer! 14948. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 5/12/2005 9:04:59 PM Then it could be Neetch or Shoap for short! 14949. thoughtful - 5/12/2005 9:16:45 PM Well of course german brings to mind german food, and esp for a little hot dog...bratwurst, weinerschnitzel...or call her cherry, like in a black forest cake.
Lady I worked with named her dog after their favorite baseball player...jeeter... i thought that was cute. And a rw goper I know named his dog maggie after margaret thatcher of course. Of course, had he asked margaret thatcher, I'm not sure she would've been pleased to know someone named a dog after her... 14950. PelleNilsson - 5/12/2005 9:30:27 PM Schlagzahne. Wurst. Knödl. Max (as in Strammer Max).
We've only had one dog, a stray we took in in Yemen. We called it Felix as in Arabia Felix. 14951. thoughtful - 5/12/2005 9:36:05 PM Felix was the name of an old cartoon cat here in the states...I remember watching them as a kid growing up. I guess it dates me now.
 14952. Ms. No - 5/12/2005 9:55:33 PM Felix the Cat!
The wonderful, wonderful cat
Whenever he gets in a fix,
he reaches into his bag of tricks
You'll laugh so much your sides will ache
Your heart will go pitter pat
Watching Felix, the wonderful cat.
I used to watch Felix when I was a kid --- but this was the Don Oriolo version from the late 50's. Every once in awhile they'd slip in some of the earlier works from the 20's and 30's.
I'd love to see a few of them now, I be they make great comentary on their time. I especially remember that the Professor in the Cold War Era episodes was always trying to amass Plutonium.
14953. thoughtful - 5/12/2005 10:09:52 PM thanks ms no for making me feel not quite so old...
Hubby is chopping out and replacing the subfloor in our foyer in prep for putting down porcelain tile. Under the plywood we found newspaper from 1954 when the house was built...at least that predates me. I'm working with some of these kids fresh out of college and I realize I've been with the firm longer than they've been on the face of the earth! What a shocker!
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