But something is missing…
My Lucky Bamboo plant needs a name!
Normally I don’t have any problems naming things [1], but this time I thought I’d enlist the devious services of the Voodoonista to find the perfect name. Failing that, at least a name that wouldn’t make a Lucky Bamboo plant cringe with shame or embarrassment or lots of shame and embarrassment simultaneously.
I can’t believe it isn’t called Bamby
Please shove your suggestion in the comment box below, feel free to argue with each other and call people rude things, since I know you will anyway.
The winner will be immortalised by, well, having a plant sitting on a desk in Brisbane bearing the name you submitted. Sweeeeeet!
Footnotes:
| 1. | Yeah, I’m looking at you, Stark Raving Duncan. |
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It’s definitely a Barry
“Feel free to argue with each other and call people rude things”
OMG, no let me rephrase that, OMFG. Barry for a Lucky Bamboo plant?..hmm…It’s not exactly “a name that wouldn’t make a Lucky Bamboo plant cringe with shame or embarrassment or lots of shame and embarrassment simultaneously” is it?
I pity poor Barry, dang now I’m doing it.
It has a nice ring to it, and no not ring bark. I notice Stark Raving you didn’t offer a name yourself. I was expecting something alog the lines of Bam Bam Bamboo, or Brutus the Beefcake Bamboo, or Big Boy Bamboo. I think a wrestling name would be approapriate for you to give Barry….
Well I was thinking something along the lines of “Genghis
little II” as it would appear that something horrid must have happened to Midnight’s last potted friend(1)
(1) Midnight that was Potted Friend not Pothead Friend, as the later still postes here.
Stark Raving is absolutely right, I do have a potplant (this one is at home) called Genghis Little. It’s a small cactus-type-thing of some description, and is immensely patient with all of my foibles and evident character flaws [1].
Barry was one of the names that leapt to my mind for my Lucky Bamboo plant as well, but then so did Trevor and Silent Sentinel Twelve [2], so obviously my input can’t be trusted.
I do think I’m looking for something a little more exotic for the Lucky Bamboo plant, something perhaps with an Asian flavour, and no I’m not going to call it Mongolian Beef.
Murray @ Midnight
See, now you’re setting guidelines. you didn’t implement those at first so we were led merrily down the garden path before you brought us back again. Maybe you need to post the rules and regulations by which we need to offer suggestions or I might just nominate Barry again.
I think Shark Fin Soup is a good name. what it has to do with bamboo I have no idea but it sounds Oriental.
Twelve is the answer to everything?
Kown many apostles were there?
Twelve
How many signs of the zodiac are there?
Twelve
How many months in a year are there?
Twelve
Wow that’s spooky, you could be on to something here.
How many in a dozen?
Twelve.
What is Saturday’s IQ?
Twelve
This is amazing, I think you’ve cracked it Midnight….
The judges were forced to give Trevor extra points for Technical Difficulty (because he was a plant), but he still found himself cut from the final round due to another controversial interpretation of the tango.
Oh right…um sorry ’bout that…for a minute I thought this was another Slugfest.
The Creature said:
I don’t see these as much as being ‘guidelines’, as I see them as being ‘incontrovertable rules, the transgression against which will result in hideous punishment, such as can only be achieved with two paper clips, a passport-sized photo of Benito Mussolini, and a roll of dental floss’.
Actually, the only real guideline in play is that I’d like it to be something a little unusual / not run-of-the-mill, which is why I originally rejected Barry.
Murray @ Midnight
Stark Raving said:
I must go and close out the current Slugfest. I don’t think it prompted the best effort from the Voodoonista, for some reason.
Murray @ Midnight
The Creature said:
Right right… once you’re hip to Twelve, you start seeing it everywhere.
What are the first two prime numbers? 1 and 2. “12″… is Twelve!
Another interesting prime number is 13 [1]. 13 is… a Baker’s Dozen!
How many days in a week if you don’t like your job? Figuring each workday feels twice as long as a weekend day, that makes… Twelve!
Even Douglas Adams was onto it. He claimed that the answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is 42. 6 x 7 = 42. 6 + 7 is… a Baker’s Dozen again!
Seriously, it’s all about Twelve.
Murray @ Midnight
I may be Captain Obvious here and a little out of my league with all you big boys and your mad naming skills…..but how about Juuni (pronounced joo-knee), which is Twelve in Japanese.