What knee-slappers your comments on your names were, Dear Readers! It now occurs to me that perhaps humans are like the feline characters in “Cats” who have everyday names like Spot and Tigger and Joe and One-Eye, and then they have their “cat” names like Skimbleshanks and Grizzabella and Bustopher Jones and Old Deuteronomy. Now, if you’re feeling left out because (a) you’re not a Buddhist monk or (b) you have no frickin’ idea what your name means or (c) you don’t have enough energy to make something up, fret not. For your entertainment, today I present Name Generators!
Hobbit name generator. While my plan is to let you'ens figure out and post your own names, I have to post Big Sister’s Hobbit name: Daisy Bracegirdle of Hardbottle. Isn’t that a hoot? Oh, and mine? Tigerlily Bulge of Hobbiton.
Middle Earth Name generator. This link will generate multiple names for you, such as your Hobbit name, your Elven name and, for those who woke up on the wrong side of bed this morning, your Orkish name. Oddly, I enjoyed my Orkish names the most. If I put in just Ryan Morrissey, I got Wurrrárz the Hated. If I put in my full name, Ryan Richardson Morrissey, I got Mortrak the Pillager. Mortrak the Pillager, Mortrak...the...Pillager—I like the sound of that.
Smurf Name Generator. Not quite as amusing as the others, but I posted it because I like saying "Smurf." My Smurf name: Cleft Palate Smurf
Gangsta Name Generator. My Gangsta name: Mad Cow Crack Robba
Silly Name Generator. My Silly name: Grimy Liverjuice
And my all-time favorite, the Professor Poopypants name generator (graphics and animation intensive). My Professor Poopypants name: Loopy Banana Brains
100 Things...
Still plowing along on this list. Here are seven more things:
16. I am a trivia fanatic. This comes in quite handy since Pure God's Gracious Gift frequently calls me with inane and obscure questions like, “What’s the name of that Spanish guy who used to have a puppet made out of his hand?” Anybody?
17. My sister and brother-in-law both used to work at the World Trade Center. This scares me to think about even today. Then again, it probably scares them even more so I should just hesh up.
18. My mother said we had an ancestress named Marcia Lucia Ave Maria Van Pelt Buckingham, but I’m un peu skeptical about this. When Daisy Bracegirdle of Hardbottle was younger, she used to have a large, stuffed toy snake with seven sections, each a different color, and she named each one of the sections after one of La Buckingham’s names. Which meant one of the sections was named just “Van.” Go figure. Actually, I wonder if Daisy even remembers this…
19. I am flaky. This is either annoying or endearing, I don’t know which. Pure God's Gracious Gift can’t decide either. Fortunately I am also Responsible and am able to prevent my flakiness from getting in the way of Things That Need To Be Done.
20. I can say the alphabet backwards. It saddens me that this could possibly be my greatest claim to fame.
21. When I was a child, I thought working hard on your homework meant pressing more firmly on your pen or pencil. I’m amazed I made it through grade school.
22. I am crazy about animals, reptiles, and birds. Oh, sure, I like the usual: Dogs, horses, cats, parakeets. But get me around the rare, the dangerous, and the unusual and I'm in seventh heaven. In fact, last summer when Daisy Bracegirdle of Hardbottle and family came to visit, and we went to the Pacific Science Center, I missed a goodly portion of the activities because I had my nose pressed up against the naked mole rat display.
Knitting Knews
There is no, I repeat, no knitting news, for one understandable (I think) reason and one embarrassing reason. The understandable one: We spent a considerable portion of this weekend fretting about our Frankie, who was sick. I won't go into any of the gory details but suffice it to say a faint yet mightily malodorous green cloud followed her everywhere she went. She is much better now. No more green cloud. Then, Saturday night we went to a Christmas party. During this annual party, all the guests are invited to nosh, drink, socialize and then to walk to a large nearby lake to enjoy the luminarias and the carolers. Those who feel up to it walk around the lake. To my surprise, Pure God's Gracious Gift and the two people we went with announced We Were Up To It. So, yes, we walked around the lake, a reasonable distance of three miles. A reasonable distance if you're not a couch potato. A reasonable distance if you're not the kind of person whose idea of exercise is to get up to change your size 3 dpns for size 4s. A reasonable distance if you had had six months to work up to it. A reasonable distance if you had on durable hiking books, had a tent, pitons, ropes, a sleeping bag, and provisions in case of an emergency. A reasonable distance if you had not just eaten tamale pie, vegetarian lasagna, garlic bread, three cups of hot cider, a slice of chocolate pie and a chocolate chip cookie. Which explains why I spent all of Sunday sleeping. The whole day. And since I can't knit in my sleep, there you have it. Which makes it all the more embarrassing to learn that, while I was snoring and drooling, our Rachael was running and finishing her AIDS marathon in Hawaii.
Ta-ta for now, Dear Readers.
Ryan, aka
Tigerlily Bulge of Hobbiton
Mortrak the Pillager
Cleft Palate Smurf
Mad Cow Crack Robba
Grimy Liverjuice
Loopy Banana Brains
Today, please refer to me as Tiny Potatobutt, Flunky Chucklebrain, Wurrkur the Basher, or Rump-thumpin' Cracka Fool! [Much more appropriate than Pure God's Gracious Gift, me thinks!] ;-)
TMK
Posted by: The Mysterious K on December 13, 2004 11:31 AMOK here goes:
I was a Wicked Haradrim but I can also call myself Telavariel which I like tremendously.
Or, Lobelia Cotton from Needlehole.
Or, Borin Granitecrusher. Borin? I'd rather be Interestin.
Razhshash the Gasher.
Zimratukrak.
Daisy Millstone of Bywater.
Black Gorilla.
Ichabod Smurf.
Dinky Corsetjuice.
OK that was fun!
I am so glad to hear that Frankie is better. I just hate it when wee ones are not feeling up to par. I shall have to go through the name generators later (when I am not at work anyway)
Posted by: marti on December 13, 2004 11:43 AM#21 is my favorite thing about you yet!
uggog the crazed, or annoying gamgee, here- geez, i wonder if these generators know me?
first of all, get well wishes to frankie-
what's with seattle people and lakes? i live by the largest lake in texas, but when i head to your fair city to visit my daughter she always thinks we need to take a walk around green lake it was nice *once*- well, it beats watching those guys flinging fish around which my son thinks i need to see whenever i am there-
don't feel badly about spending time looking at the naked moles- whenever i visit any zoo i look for the sloths-
stay happy
Posted by: uggob the crazed on December 13, 2004 11:50 AM*sigh.. everyone is getting kick-ass cool rapster names.. and I get: drunken rappa. I am so uncool.
And, as always, I am with Norma-- (psst I also think she writes the funniest stuff) I think #21 is the best. Sue would agree that many children most likely have this problem.
Posted by: drunken rappa on December 13, 2004 12:00 PMGlad to hear Frankie's better. Pooch One just had a benign tumor removed and the fact that's she's got a bunch of stitches in her side does not slow her down one whit, more's the pity. If only I knew how to say "Chill Out!" in dog.
(I'm so envious. None of my generated names were that much fun, although Radioactive Smurf showed some promise.)
Your tale of Great Exertion after Large Meal gave me fond memories of one of my Iowan friends who, to celebrate her husband's birthday, would gather all her local friends together to go eat in the Amana Colonies. There we would all eat entirely too much hearty German food (is there such a thing as light German food?), stagger back to their place, and then lie around moaning and digesting. And then we would have cake. Because we were stupid. But convivial. Ah, good times.
Posted by: Melanie on December 13, 2004 12:04 PMWho is Senor Fuentes for 500, Alex?
This name thing has me snorting my Diet Coke (sorry, Norma). Mine translates as God is Gracious Warrior Maiden Moustache--a charming and feminine moniker if I ever heard one. Although the moustache part is much less funny now that I'm edging up on menopause...
Poppy Tussock from Sackville
Senor Wences--tol' you we were cut from the same whole cloth.
As might be expected, the names were way cooler when I put in my Buddhist name. Rap name was so-so, but succinct--Da Bastard--but the site made me laff. Silly and Poopeypants names were good--Tiny Gorillasquirt and Flunky Rhinosprinkles respectively. But my real favorite was my Ork name--Bazzog the Obtuse.
Posted by: Cuzzin Tom on December 13, 2004 12:28 PMI believe your mother on No. 18. because I have a teensy neighbor (4 years, maybe 30 pounds) who glories in the name of Ava Luciana. Ava is more than up to the challenge and will correct your pronunciation with dignity, if not correctness. She would have no interest in the name generators being well aware that she is already the Pure Godess' Gracious Gift and don't you forget it.
Posted by: Kim on December 13, 2004 12:34 PMDon't forget these.
EXOTIC FOREIGNER ALIAS = Favorite Spice + Last Foreign Vacation Spot ::
Dill Mustique
SOCIALITE ALIAS = Silliest Childhood Nickname + Town Where You First Partied ::
Moose-a-Goose Nantucket
"FLY GIRL" ALIAS (a la J. Lo) = First Initial + First Two or Three Letters of Your Last Name ::
J. Ro
ROCK STAR ALIAS = Any Liquid on the Bar + Last Name of Bad-Ass Celeb ::
Knob Creek Coburn
DIVA ALIAS = Something Sweet Within Sight + Any Liquid in Kitchen::
Chocolate Juice
GIRL DETECTIVE ALIAS = Favorite Baby Animal + Where You Last Went To School::
Puppy Chicago
BARFLY ALIAS = Last Snack Food You Ate + Your Favorite Drink ::
Chocolate Chip Margarita
SOAP OPERA ALIAS = Middle Name + Street Where You First Lived ::
Leah Weaver
Uggog the Crazed: I forget sometimes that you have "contacts" in this city. It was, in fact, Greenlake that we walked around! And, you're right, once you've seen a fishmonger get hit in the chest with a 15-pound salmon...
LOVING the names, everyone, especially Tiny Gorillasquirt, Tiny PotatoButt, Dinky Corsetjuice and Flunky Rhinosprinkles. And Jessica (Rose-Kim Knits), the alias generators kick bootay! My Socialite Name was Pookie Bucknell. My Barfly Alias was Frito Daiquiri.
To reassure everyone, Frankie is definitely mo' bettah. And get this--because she's not supposed to be around other dogs for a few days, the elderly gentleman who walks her in the mornings is now walking his Corgi and then coming to Flunky Chucklebrain's house and walking Frankie separately. So sweet!
Oh, and speaking of animals, Dear Readers, make sure you visit Anj's site (she is Drunken Rappa today if you want to click on her name) to see the picture of her kitty stuck with its head in basketball cap. It is soooo funny. (She reassures us that she rescued the cat right after the picture was taken.)
Posted by: Ryan on December 13, 2004 01:13 PMRyan,
Best wishes to Frankie, glad she is feeling (and smelling?) better. My QH is also under the weather, maybe down for the count
:( but we wait and hope.
Loved your list - and the whimpering about Green Lake! Also enjoyed the name quest. Lovely feminine names were great, but I enjoyed finding I could legitimately go about as Gimli Goldarmor (and that dwarvish names are non-specific as to gender)...and that in Hobbitspeak I could stand up as Menegilda Boffin from Newbury. But given that I work with a fair number of rap-speakin' teenagers, it warms my heart to think of myself as Dank-ass Red Snappa!
I think I've been shot straight back to sixth grade in terms of damage to my self esteem (though the names back then were monosyllabic):
Hobbit Name: Esmerelda Grubb of Little Delving
Orkish Name: Ufzag the Choker
Smurf Name: Stanky Smurf
Gangsta Name: Da Stank Ho
Silly Name: Tiny Lizardkisser
Captain Whozits: Flunky Wafflefanny
I think the gangstas and the smurfs are in cahoots! (I always knew the smurfs were Crypts.) There are times when grading papers, however, that Ufzag the Choker wells up in me.
Posted by: Kristen on December 13, 2004 02:18 PMThis was just too hilarious. Turns out Kristen and I are cousins in several ways. Oh, and mad Cow Crack Robba had me throwing my hand over my mouth to stiffle the giggles. Just too funny. Ok, here goes.
Hobbit: Rosie-Posie Grubb of Little Delving
Elven: Galenduriel
Dwarven: Vim Musiceyes (I like that one)
Orkish: Grishaluk the Massive (I will not give up my brownies)
Smurf: Doctor Smurf
Gangsta: Rubba-lipped Crab Whacka *snort*
Sillyname: Runny Lizardkisser
Captain Underpants: Stinky Wafflefanny
Oh and my "Fly Girl" name? A. Hug. It's doesn't exactly scream "cool."
Oh and a note for Drunken Rappa. I ran a gangsta name for Backward Hat Cat. His new name is Fat Jimmy Jamma. Just thought you should know.
Hope everyone has a great day!
Posted by: Stalker Angie on December 13, 2004 03:12 PMNah, I lost to "Senor WENCES"? Damn. I hate these trivia games...
A Wicked Noldor
Posted by: Janine on December 13, 2004 03:18 PMMy gangsta name is Jimbo da Jimmy Jamma! I'm crying that made me laugh so hard!
Posted by: Diana aka Jimbo da Jimmy Jamma on December 13, 2004 05:31 PMooh ooh, i can say the alphabet backwards too! my dad's welsh nurse taught me when i was little. came in verry handy once when i used to drink and was pulled over for the roadside sobriety test. who'd a thunk it ;-0
Posted by: vanessa on December 13, 2004 07:30 PMOh! Pressing hard on the pencil!
That SO explains some of these finals I'm reading....
Posted by: Anne on December 14, 2004 05:05 AMThere's a naked molerat penny smasher at the San Diego Zoo. This cracked me up and I had to acquire a naked molerat mushed penny.
Posted by: Julianne on December 14, 2004 07:16 AMAnother responsible flaky person who brought home every bizarre kind of animal found in central MD while growing up (I adopted a family of pill bugs once. And snakes and turtles... the live action movie of Jungle Book makes me cry with all those beautiful animals... And I was about 3 inches from petting a giraffe at the zoo in Baltimore but the wall was too high - it was reaching its head down towards me with the sweetest eyes you've EVER seen... it drooled on me instead. I loved it.)
Signed, Gossamer Corndancer
(oh, did you forget the Fairy Name generator?
http://www.emmadavies.net/fairy/)
Hobbit: Lobelia Gamgee
Elvish: Carangondwen
Dwarven: Groin Talonlaughter (Groin? lmao!)
Orkish: Pushmazh the Ripper
Smurf: Man-eating Smurf
Gangsta: Off da hook
Silly Name: Tiny Gerbilmuffin
Actually, interestingly enough, if you translate the meaning of my name ("Little Womanly One") my real name in Elvish would be Telellewende. Yes, I am a geek.
If you want to see the Northern Lights, come up to Canada, to Northern Ontario. We get them often, all year round!
Posted by: Karlie on December 14, 2004 09:29 AMuninspired by the drunken rappa moniker.. and afraid to look at my orkish name I did a google search and came up with this link
http://www.bostonuk.com/names/default.asp
it tells you the meaning of your name in a nice, concise paragraph. here is what it said about Anjeanette :)
You have great self-confidence and a charming personality which attracts many friends and admirers. Your innate sense of personal power and ability to lead are ideally suited to positions of authority. Being so versatile and seeing the big picture your ambitions are high and much is usually expected of you. With patience and tenacity you will certainly fulfill the great potential you have for success.
And I feel really good about that.
Posted by: anj on December 14, 2004 09:50 AMThis has been such a blast.
Cecilia Leonia to you soap opera fans
Carrie Warren in the socialite sphere
Peanutbutter Tullamoredew at the bar
Sage Hanoi around the world
Kitten Michigan if you need a detective
I thought you might get a kick out of my smurf name:
Hoochie Smurf
My coworker sure got a kick out of it!
Posted by: Erin on December 15, 2004 01:03 PM