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Open Thread: What’s In A Name?

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I owe you a full-fledged duckling post, but it’s been a busy week of cleaning up after the blizzard and taking care of increasingly more time-consuming soon-to-be feathered housemates.  So here are a couple of photos from yesterday. Tomorrow they’ll be bigger still…

Open Thread: What's In A Name?

This happened yesterday:

I have lost all control. The ducklings were out and I was busy working. Suddenly all I hear are duck feet running and lots of squawking.
They had made their way to the bathroom and were making a ruckus at the bathtub.
To recap, three weeks old, they know the word bathtime, they know how to find the bathroom and they know how to get their point across. Give them another week, they’ll be running their own bath.
(Oh, please, warm weather hurry up, these guys need outside time!)
Open Thread: What's In A Name? 1

So I’ve kind of named them. But I’m not sharing in case it doesn’t stick and you guys complain for the next 8 years that you know them as their original name from when they were 3 weeks old. ?

How about you take a swing at it? What should I name them? They have very distinct personalities. The larger one is very grumpy and protective. Not fond of being picked up and prone to nibbling on me. The smaller one is the adventurous one and loves to be held.

Remember….we don’t know their sex yet, but by their voices, I’m still suspecting they are both female.

No. Food. Names. It’s not funny, even though you think it is. ?

Otherwise, open thread

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  2. 2.

    mrmoshpotato

    So I’ve kind of named them. But I’m not sharing in case it doesn’t stick and you guys complain for the next 8 years that you know them as their original name from when they were 3 weeks old. ?

    LOL

  5. 5.

    Ken

    I am trying to thick of duck names from children’s literature, but drawing a blank.

    (Children’s cartoons, easy, but “Daffy” and “Donald” might get the blog taken down by the copyright police.)

  8. 8.

    CaseyL

    They’ve lost the adorable-fluffball look and are starting to look like real ducks!

    A fellow who farms waterfowl in Vermont says you can differentiate duck sexes because girl ducks quack and boy ducks have a raspier sort of grunt.  But I don’t know how old they have to be before their voices get “grown up.”

    Names?  For a protective, rather grumpy girl: Gertie.  For an affectionate, adventurous girl: Billie.  Maybe Billie Jean :)

  15. 15.

    Another Scott

    Galina (reminiscent of Ga2O3 (a white mineral in powder form and exciting new semiconductor)) and Silica (silicon dioxide – quartz – a white powder).

    /materials-nerd

    Good luck!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  19. 19.

    cope

    If they are both female, may I suggest Tina and Chloe as names. Short and with a hard consonant sound and long vowel. I have been told these are useful criteria for giving pets names that one hopes they will respond to.

  23. 23.

    The Fat White Duchess

    My ex was the eldest of four children, and at some point they were all given ducks. Ex and sibs named them Mack, Jack, Quack, and Agamemnon.

    (No prize for guessing which name was chosen by the ex.)

  24. 24.

    piratedan

    Myrtle and Ethel, because I am sure that they are old souls at heart…. and there’s just something awesome about saying Myrtle

  25. 25.

    bluefoot

    @raven: ​
      Weren’t those the names of Rocky’s two turtles in the original Rocky movie?

    A friend named her gerbils Bertie and Jeeves.

  29. 29.

    namekarB

    On the Left Coast we have these car washes named Quick Quack which I cannot seem to get out of my head

  33. 33.

    A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

    I had originally thought of Huey and Dewey (what – not original enough?), but if they are girls, how about Lucy and Ethel? Or Tina and Amy? Thelma and Louise are too obvious

    ETA: I do like Betty Quacker but what about the other one?

  34. 34.

    Villago Delenda Est

    “Donald” and “Daisy” are both invitations for the hacks of Disney legal to serve you with a cease and desist.  You don’t have a letter signed by Walt himself, as the University of Oregon does, to slap them in the face with.

  36. 36.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Now that I think of it, and since we’re baiting Disney, Wanda and Pietro?

  39. 39.

    RaflW

    How about Gertrude and Alice?

    (Have you ever used the Alice B Toklas cookbook, TaMara? I’ll be honest and say that I didn’t even know it existed until I did some googling before posting this comment. But now I’m curious!)

  41. 41.

    A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

    Or Emma and Aurora.  Larry McMurtry just died (author of Terms of Endearment) which reminded me.  The personalities work – Aurora is prickly and protective and  Emma is loving.

  44. 44.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    You don’t have a letter signed by Walt himself, as the University of Oregon does, to slap them in the face with. 

    What the?  Disney tried to trademark the word “duck?”

  51. 51.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @mrmoshpotato: UofO (also known as Knight U) uses Donald Duck as a mascot, with Walt’s express permission, in perpetuity.  Every so often Disney legal (perhaps as a hazing ritual for new hires) sends the UofO a cease and desist letter, and the UofO fires back with copy of the the original letter signed by Walt.

  58. 58.

    Mike in NC

    Just ran a couple of errands and spotted a woman walking around dressed up as an Easter Bunny. Hope she’s well compensated for that job.

  66. 66.

    Juju

    Millie and Laura. Neighbors from New Rochelle.
    Myrtle is a nice suggestion from up above, but I’d pair it with Lydia.

  69. 69.

    Martin

    @Amir Khalid: I was going to offer up Daphne and Velma. So given the intercontinental agreement on this issue, I proclaim this to be the definitive answer.

  75. 75.

    Catherine D.

    As long as we’re suffering from Seuss cancel culture: Thing One and Thing Two. One and Two for short.

    ETA – stupid cancel culture

  77. 77.

    trollhattan

    @rikyrah:

    Began the Audrey Hepburn bio on Netflix and had to laugh when she first met Givenchy and he was very surprised, having expected Katherine. She quickly became his muse and epitomized a new style.

    So either Hepburn would certainly work for a classy lady duck, but there’s a very different implication depending on which pops to mind–a Kate would argue with you and an Audrey would simply gaze until you change your mind and let her into the house. :-)

  78. 78.

    Sure Lurkalot

    I’ll pick Midge for the large duck and Molly for the petite one. A propos of absolutely nothing.

  79. 79.

    There are those who call me...tim... (Still posh)

    @Ken: Daphne and Debbie. Dodie and Didi. Doodles and Dumplin’.

  82. 82.

    Jay

    This is Sisu. He kept breaking into a dollar general to steal this purple unicorn. He tried so often they had to lock the doors and call animal control. Before the responding officer took him to the shelter, she bought it for him. Now he, and the unicorn, have been adopted. 14/10 pic.twitter.com/hjGpdwpHdg— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) March 27, 2021

  83. 83.

    VeniceRiley

    Cole and Betty. (I do like the idea of naming them after jackals that have similar personalities … Your pick!)

  86. 86.

    NotMax

    Thinking outside the box: Fido & Spot.

    Honoring female fliers: Harriet (Quimby) & Amelia (Earhart).

    Artistically inspired: Mona & Lisa.

    In a more classical vein: Clio & Doris.

    ;)

  87. 87.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    If they’re boys:

    Itchy and Scratchy

    Bert and Ernie

    Felix and Oscar

  88. 88.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    If they’re a combination boy and girl:

    Larry Bird and Sue Bird

  91. 91.

    JCJ

    When I was a kid I had a pair of mallards.  I named them Frankie and Lizzie (Sir Francis Drake and Queen Elizabeth)

  93. 93.

    SpongeBobtheBuilder

    Place names like streets or towns. Woonsocket and Pawtucket, or Wacker and Wabash, but pick something near you.

  94. 94.

    Luigidaman

    I’ve raised ducks and geese. I had one Chinese Goose (big horn on his orange beak) who hung around with his mate for about fifteen years. They mate for life.

  95. 95.

    jl

    ‘What’s in a name?’

    Trick question? Those are ducklings!

    We had ducks from time to time on the farm when I was growing up. We made a duck pond for them. they were cute and fun to care for and I feel in love with the duck family. I remember leading the ducks and ducklings in a line through one of the veggie gardens and devising a way for them to eat a bunch of bugs.

  98. 98.

    S. Cerevisiae

    Duck Dodgers in the 24  1/2 Century!

    and I’m surprised nobody has mentioned Howard

  101. 101.

    NotMax

    OT.

    In place of the usual banner up top promoting a movie or program, today Prime video is displaying this message:

    “We stand in solidarity with Asian and Pacific Islander communities.”

  104. 104.

    MagdaInBlack

    I’m living vicariously through your ducks. I had such fun with ours and the pair of geese. I don’t recall that my husband named the ducks, (they were his) but the geese (mine) were unimaginatively “Mother” and “Father”

  107. 107.

    Richard Grant

    For a female, Ritzie or Sunshine.
    For a male, Bill or Gus (more formally, Gustave Mallard).

  112. 112.

    OzarkHillbilly

    How about you take a swing at it?

    Fuck that. You know them. They are your ducks. You name them.

  115. 115.

    Miss Bianca

    @The Fat White Duchess:

    My ex was the eldest of four children, and at some point they were all given ducks. Ex and sibs named them Mack, Jack, Quack, and Agamemnon.

    OMG…that’s the start of a children’s book right there!

     

    @A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan):  In the Freddy the Pig books, some of my fave raves from childhood, there were two white ducks named Alice and Emma.

    Also their Uncle Wesley, but the less said about him, the better. ; )

  122. 122.

    xjmuellerlurks

    Downey, Billie, Webb, or Quackers

    Sadly, you are forbidding my fave, coagulated milk protein casein and quackers.  Forget I even mentioned it.

  123. 123.

    Mary Ellen Sandahl

    If you were English you could opt for Dana and Beverly, which are both unisex in the UK. And one even starts with D! Also, I think they’re pretty callable.
    PS – they’re lovely. Love the way they sit head to tail like a couple of pretty little ornaments. And love hearing about how they rule your entire existence not already ruled by the dogs and the older ducks.

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