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I'm taking suggestions on what to name my newest member of my stuffie zoo - a pink octopus.
any and all suggestions will be considered, and appreciated.
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Aunt Army
win
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Octavius
... and for short, Gus.
-- Daphne Xu
I'm going to use the female equivalent
as a middle name, thanks for the suggestion !
Oooh I got it!
Cally-Marie... Cally being short for Calista of course ;)
*big hugs*
Amethyst
Don't take me too seriously. I'm just kitten around. :3
we have a winner!
Calista Octavia Rose
Awww, I'm glad you liked the
Awww, I'm glad you liked the name enough to use it, even if I was mostly joking. It's a nice name for a stuffy.
*big hugs*
Amethyst
Don't take me too seriously. I'm just kitten around. :3
Glad!
Glad you liked it!
-- Daphne Xu
I kinda like that! Lol!
I kinda like that! Lol!
Hugs!
Rosemary
Seeing as it's a pink octopus...
My first thought would be Pinky Inky. Or Inky Pinky. I think the first would be better, though.
Hugs!
Rosemary
Ringo.
Because I'd like to be under the sea in an Octopus' garden in the shade.
stuffie
Cephie the cephalopod
Octopockles
Oddly Jen, I was thinking Seffie (Le Pod),
but by then Dot had already settled on a name.
And I named one of the mermaid queen's two
octopus maids in OFF THE DEEP END Octavia,
the other one being called Giselle, because she's an octopus French maid.
Giselle is as shy as Octavia is brash and opinionated; because in real life
these clever mollusks seem to have very distinct personalities.
And weirdly (what is it with me and octopuses?) my young
trans character Jackie in THE ABATTOIR actually had an octopus plushie
that she named Scotty, because they're covered with a tartan fabric. Scottie
didn't seem to have a gender, and when asked (in Jackie's imagination...)
whether they were a boy or a girl didn't really understand the question.
~hugs, Veronica
The Potato says:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/o4jTclx61Tc
octy
octy
I Was Going...
...to suggest Standard Oil (or maybe Esso), figuring that oil is basically what their ink is. In The Sea Fairies by L Frank Baum (his mermaid book), the octopus character is insulted that his species is being compared to "the Stannerd Oil Company", which was broken up under antitrust laws in 1911, the same year the book was published.
Eric
Thanks Eric!
CAPTAIN KID GLOVE???
Yep, that's gotta be L Frank Baum.
I stumbled across the name after I'd downloaded
THE SEA FAIRIES from Project Gutenberg and was reformatting
it into 13 point Times New Roman to read later, and just had to groan!
(Only Beany + Cecil creator Bob Clampett came up with worse pun names {No Bikini Atoll};
and if you watch old MGM and Warner Bros cartoons Clampett had wrote for
you can practically smell which jokes are his...)
I'd never heard of Baum's mermaid book, which is not surprising if as the intro says sold about 600 copies so he went back to writing Land of Oz books. Maybe he should have tied the mermaid theme into his more popular series by retconning an ocean into the Land of OZ (he was never big on continuity between the early and later books) + have Dorothy be the main character to make this book more popular; but I guess he thought it was gonna be a whole new series...
PROJECT GUTENBERG also has a whole lot of OZ titles that have lapsed into the public domain; so I'll try to figure out which ones I haven't read and give em a look. Thanks for the recommend, Eric!
~EeEeE!! EeEeE!! EeEeE!! EeEeE!! Veronica
The Potato says:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/o4jTclx61Tc
I Have an Original Copy...
...that my grandfather gave me as a kid, circa 1960 (or maybe earlier, since it was pristine or nearly so when I got it and it's considerably less so now). Never knew it was rare, though I'd read in a Baum bio that sales were disappointing and that was the reason the Oz series resumed. (IIRC, Baum had tried to end it in an epilogue to the previous year's book by saying that Glinda had hidden Oz from the rest of the world. The next year he said they'd gotten back in touch by wireless.)
He brought Trot and her uncle Cap'n Bill from this story into Oz as soon as he could, I think -- they were sweet characters, too good to waste on a dead end -- and he did have Trot reference her ability to call on the mermaid queen once in an Oz book when they were in danger, while acknowledging that since they weren't in the ocean, there didn't seem to be any point in her doing so.
Not sure why, but I still sing the Fiddler Crab's brief song from the book occasionally:
Ah well, I hear the curfew
Please go away and come another day
Goliath tussles
With Samson's muscles
But the mussels never fight in Oyster Bay
Eric
It's no good
I keep reading the subject line as "Octopus shuffle".
"Is that a dance, Mistress?"
Penny
Not the Only One
I hear in my mind, "Something something do the Octo Shuffle."
-- Daphne Xu
Gave you my answer on FB,
The full name, though, is an Irish one:
Seph Al o'Pod
Have to admit
Have to admit I never offered you a name because I got bit by that meme where you read something using only the first and last letters of each word. So... I misread your desire as being for a name for your oedipus stuffie. The image this summoned in my head precluded any useful thinking.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Whereas...
... a couple of us misread it as "octopus shuffle".
Your misreading led me to this not-so-nice thought: "One should take that Oedipus stuffie and shove it." (Probably summons a worse image, sorry.)
-- Daphne Xu