Do library cats' names count? Like Catticus Finch and the Great Catsby?
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2024
48 points (91.4% liked)
Ask Lemmy
26996 readers
1521 users here now
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Please don't post about US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Chairman Meow Zedong
I'm rather partial to Ma~
I see what you did there!
I don't get it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde?wprov=sfla1
Ma tilde = Matilda
I thought it was a ma squiggly and got confused
Drag queens have the best names. My favorite from this season of RuPaul's Drag Race is Amanda Tori Meating.
She should have been an email.
Don't you mean Annie Mail?
Well played. 👏
My friend lived in a house with 4 other guys and all but one was athletic and outdoorsy. The other guy was a WOW addicted Mexican who never left his room except to get food deliveries or cigarettes. The others called him The Brown Recluse.
amazing
Pizza delivery for, I. C. Weiner
Alotta Fagina - Austin Powers:International Man of Mystery
Also, I used to have a friend called BroDeal because he used to flip land. Then he became an Ayahuasca shamen and now people call him "the profit"
Donald Glover goes over his own name in one of his stand up specials. His parents named him “Don Glover”. I guess it’s better than Tess Tickles.
Sum Ting Wong
We Tu Low
Ho Lee Fuk
Bang Ding Ow
Oswald Endswel
Sue Yoo, attorney at law
Bob Loblaw
Wendy Oldbag.
Ah thank you, it's about time I replay Ace Attorney
Here in dutchland this family by the name of 'Modder' (meaning mud) gave their baby girl the traditional Frisian name 'Fokje', which is female of 'Fokke' which is Frisian for Alphonse.
They obviously didn't speak English as 'Fokje Modder' pronounces as 'Fuck yer mother'.
I read "dutchland" as "Deutschland" (which means Germany)
Also also, herr van Lemmy, das klinkt wie Duitsland!
It was actually a GURPS character I made for a homebrew setting. It was a male techpriest named Silas Berg who fell out of the imperium and was working to get back to his home. It took something like 6-8 months before my GM noticed, because I only ever used the full name once (initial introduction), then only ever called myself Sy in all interactions after that.
The day that he finally noticed glorious. He had captured our party and was going through the prisoner list. He got to me, read out 'Sy Berg's, and I swear you could see him bluescreen for a second when he realized that he'd been running a game with a cyborg named cyborg for months without noticing.
Easily one of my favorite experiences in a TTRPG. I'm hopeful that when I get around to running my own game, I'm able to work in the story I've got in my head about the library dungeon that culminates in a fight with a wyrm. I really hope I get a similar reaction when I reveal that it's actually a bookwyrm.
Slarty Bartfast?
I always wondered about that name. It seemed deliberate, but I didn't know what he was going for. TIL
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slartibartfast
Douglas Adams wrote ... that he wanted Slartibartfast's name to sound very rude, but still actually be broadcastable. He therefore started with the name "Phartiphukborlz"...
...
"One thing I don't think I explained in the script book was that I was also teasing the typist, Geoffrey [Perkins]'s secretary, because ... she'd be typing out this long and extraordinary name which would be quite an effort to type and right at the beginning he says 'My name is not important, and I'm not going to tell you what it is'. I was just being mean to Geoffrey's secretary."
That's fantastic and I don't doubt for a second he was being a smartass with his friend's secretary. Hell, the first book was begun on a hillside in Amsterdam after plural bottles of wine and who knows what else. Makes perfect sense.
There are hills in Amsterdam? gasp
O’ranjelo and L’monjelo. I was told these were names of real kids, but that was third hand information and i was a kid myself, so probably just someone goofing.
Trace for a third child
The often repeated Carson for a boy born in the car on the way to the hospital.
Hairy Pitts
Ella Vader
Shanda Lee
Robin Banks
Chris P. Bacon
There was a Harry A. Hole in my hometown
“Can I be frank with you?”
“Sure! You be Frank and I’ll be Ernest”
- Richard “Dick” Fitzwell
- Harry Balsagna
- Adolf Oliver Busch
- Mike Rotch
- Pat McRoyne
- Ben Dover
Playing D&D, we inherited a haunted tavern that was home to a ghost named Lift (tbf, that's the name we gave it since it could only communicate by lifting things). After we solved the mystery of Lift and allowed the spirit to pass on to the afterlife, we renamed the tavern The Lifted Spirits.
Not a name, but a fun one...
The Bible is not an archaic edict.
Because you can't have archaic and edict too!
E. Norma Stitts
There was a NASCAR driver named Dick Trickle. The only motorsportsman I'm aware of named after a symptom of enlarged prostate.
I like the robot in the dogman books named 80-Hexotron Droidformigon. AKA: 80-HD
Colonel Angus is always a classic.
Not sure if it was a real name or a joke, but I had a service ticket once for Stu Pedasso. It gave me a light chuckle.
Mike Ochzarekt
Mike Rustibalz
Micah Misztiki
Mike names go on for miles
I'm currently playing in two D&D 5e campaigns.
Silver-Dragonborn Cleric, Twilight Domain named:
Argentus
The other is a Shadar-kai Circle of Moon Druid. His name is:
Hrast Quercus
I don't get the second one
Hrast is Croation for Oak.
Quercus is the genus of the oak tree
So his name is Oak Oak.
view more: next ›