We just got these two. They're from different litters but are inseparable. They're both around 6 months old. The gray one is SUPER affectionate, and loves to play fetch. You throw a little red ball and he pounces on it and then brings it back for you to throw again. The striped one is a little more shy and hid under the bed for most of the first day we brought him home, but then came out at night to wrestle with his friend and then sleep on our feet. And occasionally nip at them. Actually, they're both feet biters. But they don't bite too hard. Just saying "hello! Night time = play time! play with me! Oh, did you think you were going to get some sleep tonight? Oh no! not at all! hee hee hee!"Okay, the thing is, we don't have names for them yet. (The names they had were gawd awful.) Anyone have any suggestions?
-David
No suggestions until I hear the godawful names you're seeking to replace.
ReplyDeleteGary and Todd
ReplyDeleteArnold and Willis
Jason and Bateman
Akbar and Jeff
Loggins and Messina
Caged Fear & Tennis
ReplyDeleteGaloob & Kenner
Prince Slavery & Princess Gorp
Chocolate Chip Muffin & Lord Decliciousnesse
Actually, I think Evan's 'Loggins & Messina' is the best
Fetchy & Bitey
ReplyDeleteOr maybe just Bitey and Bitey 2 - you can alternate!
Pompeii and Vesuvius.
ReplyDeleteThe striped one looks like a Blitzkrieg to me. Make of that what you will.
ReplyDeleteTenspeed and Brownshoe
ReplyDeleteShields and Yarnell
Holmes and Yo-Yo
Synecdoche and Metonymy!
ReplyDeletesimon | simon
ReplyDeletehardcastle | mccormick
mccormick | schmicks
chips | salsa
beans | rice
mother juggs | speed
mittens | the soulkeeper
the man from snowy river | the river
football | baseball
senior scratch | lazy linda
tiger woods | another golfer
happy happy 5000 | rajj
taco bell | taco time
barfy | pukey
yellow, the color | yellow, the song by coldplay
supreme court justice antonin scalia | supreme court justice anthony kennedy
hey | what
elton john | elton john's hat
the academy awards | the writer's srike
I third the vote for Loggins & Messina. I also like Synecdoche & Metonymy (they can be two of the geekiest cats ever. Would they get beaten up on the playground for those names, or would they grow up overcompensating for the names and beat up everyone who tried to make fun of them?), and most of Kirk's list (Simon & Simon! Ha! Chips & Salsa! hehe!).
ReplyDelete1. Loggins & Messina
ReplyDelete2. Faerp & Faerm
3. Moustache Ride & Happy Trail
4. Herb & Larry
The original names, by the way: Balloo (the gray one) and Sir Lance-a-little (the stripy one)
ReplyDeleteOkay, of the two only "Sir Lance-a-Little" technically qualifies as godawful in my book.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, I can't come up with anything to rival Loggins & Messina or Fetchy and Bitey. If it was just one, I might suggest General Bonkers, but alas. Rogers & Hammerstein? Phobos and Deimos? Lenny and Squiggy? Bob and Doug? Harold and Kumar?
How about David and Jen?
ReplyDeleteMIND BOMB!
Just throwing this out there, but the two names don't HAVE to be some matching pair, like Ike & Tina. They COULD be just two good names. Just saying.
ReplyDeleteBalloo is obviously a reference to the Jane Fonda film, "Cat Ballou," which is actually pretty cute. I vote that you keep Ballou.
ReplyDelete(rachel said... ) DENIED!!!!
ReplyDeleteBalloo is obviously a reference to the Walt Disney film, "Jungle Book", which is actually pretty cute. Balloo is a bear! Not Jane Fonda! Look for the Bear Necessities! THE SIMPLE BARE NECESSITIES!
If You Win You'll Get This Shiny Fiddle Made of Gold & If You Lose The Devil Gets Your Soul.
ReplyDeleteKunja & Bunja
& & And
David & Hates Pair-y Names
Balloo is a great name for a cat.
ReplyDeleteJust sayin'.
I stand corrected, RIW. Balloo from the Jungle Book is also cute, but c'mon! Cat Ballou (*for a cat*) is a much better reference. Plus, this is her theme song:
ReplyDeleteCat Ballou, Cat Ballooooou,
She's mean and evil through and through...
How great is that?
Either way, the cats are adorable and will withstand even the silliest of names. Congrats, Kitty parents!
Warlock + Hammerschool
ReplyDeletefor god's sake, please name the damn cats so we can all GET BACK TO WORK.
ReplyDeleteHow about Rubin and Ed.
ReplyDelete"My cat can eat a whole watermelon."
Sounds meant to be to me.
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Huntley & Brinkley
ReplyDeleteGrey Poupon & Peanut Butter
Chico & The Man
San & Reas
Rhythm & Blue
Beans & Weenie
jacket and hatch.
ReplyDeleteRUBIN and ED for the WIN!
ReplyDeleteCrispin Glover & Danny Glover
ReplyDeletePhil Collins & "Easy Lover"
Hey! We're naming cats like it's 1999!
Okay, look: I don't know who that Gillian is up there...either there is another Gillian in the Awesomeiverse or someone was using my computer.
ReplyDeleteAnd it's not like I thoroughly read any of the other suggestions, so I'm just going to say that when Erin and I were little (like, I was four and she was two) we named our two kittens Grey-White-White and Black-White-White.
The mother of those kittens--named by our father--was Moody Blue.
Whatever you name your kittens, you will NEVER SURPASS THAT BRILLIANCE.
(Although I suppose it could be inferred that mentioning the name "Moody Blue" is a vote for Loggins & Messina...)
Lemonjello & Orangejello (the Ebonics pronunciation - leMAHNjelo & orAHNjelo)
ReplyDeleteUpdate: We've been calling the fluffier stripier scaredier one William Carlos Williams. (But sometimes I still call him Bitey.) Nothing has stuck with the little gray fetchy one.
ReplyDeletei asked william carlos williams what he thought of the proffered names for his young friend, at which point he purposefully walked over to the computer and paced around on the keyboard. this is what he said:
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i'm not kidding. and i think that last bit is a form of cautionary advice..............
at any rate, if anyone is able to translate cat typing, i'd like to know what his entry might mean.
if that doesn't prompt something, i think we might go with Balloo Loggins-Kant
Whitman.
I recommend Schnapps or Blunt Instrument.
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