The Cat Thread (aka Caturday!)

[Freebase Dali]

Originally Posted by Paloma

Cone kitteh

(this is my kitteh, Holden Caulfield )

Why do people give their animals names like that?
I understand some sort of sentimental value to books read or musician's loved, but most of the time it never flows well and is pretentious for no reason at all, and usually never has anything to do with the animal's looks or behavior, but everything to do with the owner's sense of needing to brand a subordinate with his/her own preferences.

I'm not really grinding on you so much, especially that you can't really ask a cat what it wants to be named, nor does it matter to the cat... but it reminds me of this girl I know... Such a weird bitch. She birthed a kid and decided to OFFICIALLY NAME HIM "Octavian Danger Clautier" (I don't remember her last name, but it was something like that)
WHAT THE FUCK!?!?
It makes me wonder if she's ever been to school as a child or if she was just dropped from a flying saucer when she hit 19. I understand wanting to be original, but there's really a line you have to draw between your own ridiculously twisted Tim Burton fantasies and what your child is going to be called, and resultingly picked on, for the rest of his life.
The least you can do is apply a little real-world knowledge you've hopefully ascertained from your own childhood and not make your child the butt of every kid's joke just because YOU happen to like a weird ass name...

Anyway, I digressed a crap load..
I didn't really mean all that about your cat, which I'm sure couldn't give a fuck less about what you call him, but it brought me onto the other thing and I just had to see if anyone else feels the same way I do about it.

[crash_override]

I've always said I want a bassett named Steven Seagal.

[Insane Guest]

My neighbors dog was named Ringo, and the dogtag was a star[r]. He acted like it had nothing to do with him, but I knew. It does get annoying at times.

[Sansa Stark]

Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

Why do people give their animals names like that?
I understand some sort of sentimental value to books read or musician's loved, but most of the time it never flows well and is pretentious for no reason at all, and usually never has anything to do with the animal's looks or behavior, but everything to do with the owner's sense of needing to brand a subordinate with his/her own preferences.

I'm not really grinding on you so much, especially that you can't really ask a cat what it wants to be named, nor does it matter to the cat... but it reminds me of this girl I know... Such a weird bitch. She birthed a kid and decided to OFFICIALLY NAME HIM "Octavian Danger Clautier" (I don't remember her last name, but it was something like that)
WHAT THE FUCK!?!?
It makes me wonder if she's ever been to school as a child or if she was just dropped from a flying saucer when she hit 19. I understand wanting to be original, but there's really a line you have to draw between your own ridiculously twisted Tim Burton fantasies and what your child is going to be called, and resultingly picked on, for the rest of his life.
The least you can do is apply a little real-world knowledge you've hopefully ascertained from your own childhood and not make your child the butt of every kid's joke just because YOU happen to like a weird ass name...

Anyway, I digressed a crap load..
I didn't really mean all that about your cat, which I'm sure couldn't give a fuck less about what you call him, but it brought me onto the other thing and I just had to see if anyone else feels the same way I do about it.

because I fostered a litter of cats and I named them all after book characters.

[Imperfect Haze]

Well, my pet's name is Spotted Thing Under the Fake Log.
But you use a gecko's name even less often than a cat's, so....

[Sansa Stark]

I like my cat's name, and it seems to fit him very well. I would never name a child something so weird as Octavian Danger though. I prefer older names though. Traditional ones.

[Imperfect Haze]

Originally Posted by Paloma

I like my cat's name, and it seems to fit him very well. I would never name a child something so weird as Octavian Danger though. I prefer older names though. Traditional ones.

Yeah, there's old-fashioned baby names, and there's old-fashioned graphic novel characters.
Anyone named Octavian Danger is probably going to end up a supervillain.

[Sansa Stark]

I wouldn't name a child something that would guarantee him getting picked on

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by Paloma

I prefer older names though. Traditional ones.

Like Hercules?

[Sansa Stark]

Frankenstein

or Pilot Inspektor

ffs