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I don't honestly remember how it started. It might have been when [livejournal.com profile] mabfan bought me a trio of stuffed dinosaurs in honor of not-our-wedding-date (a story unto itself; maybe I'll write that one up some day). So he got me a brontosaurus (don't tell me they don't exist; that's what the tag said it was), and I named it Charlotte. And then he bought me a second one. And I named it Emily. And then he bought me a dimetrodon, which is technically not a dinosaur, but that's neither here nor there. I named it Dmitri. But I'd decided that had he bought me another brontosaurus, I was going to name it Anne.

From there the floodgates opened. We have a giraffe I named Vander. We have a brown bear I named Frederick (now known by the girls as Fred the Bear). We have an obscurely named owl I call Rick Mercer (because this owl has 22 minutes). At one point, I compiled a list of names of stuffed animals in our collection, but it has fallen woefully out of date. Also, most stuffed animals in the house now belong to Muffin and Squeaker, and they're not so creative with animal names yet. (The bears that Sabba and Savta gave them are both "Sabba Savta bear." The bears that we told them were special to Mommy and Daddy are, respectively, Mommy's Special Bear and Daddy's Special Bear). The stuffed octopus that I knit ended up with the name Calamari, but Muffin only knows her as Callie.

At some point, I need to dig out the list again. I may post it here for amusement purposes.

ETA: [personal profile] mabfan reminds me that we named our stuffed bison Freeman.

Date: 2012-05-09 06:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mabfan.livejournal.com
How could you forget Freeman Bison?

Date: 2012-05-09 06:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com
Ooh, good catch. I shall add him.

Date: 2012-05-09 06:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vettecat.livejournal.com
Seems to me I contributed a name at one point, but I can't remember details anymore...

Date: 2012-05-09 06:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com
I'd have to check the list...

Date: 2012-05-09 06:24 pm (UTC)
gilana: (Default)
From: [personal profile] gilana
I had a well-loved teddy bear that was a hand-me-down when I was born. I forget what his original name was, but at some point I re-named him Thred Bead.

Date: 2012-05-09 06:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com
A good name for a bear!

Date: 2012-05-09 06:30 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com
it took me longer than it should have to get why you named the brontosauri charlotte and emily. >.< (partly because i always think "prentiss" - criminal minds - when anyone says "emily", and in that case the other brontosauri would have to be jennifer and penelope.) now of course i think you need two more to name anne and branwell. :D

Date: 2012-05-09 06:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com
I'm subtle like that. And, yes. I need an Anne and a Branwell. But those two dinos would probably be relegated to lives of mostly obscurity, the poor things.

Date: 2012-05-09 07:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cramerica.livejournal.com
Didn't you also have Hugh Manatee around the house, or was he not a stuffed animal?

Date: 2012-05-09 07:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com
We have a small manatee I often refer to as "Hugh," yes, though I don't remember if we ever formally named him that.

Date: 2012-05-09 09:28 pm (UTC)
dpolicar: (Default)
From: [personal profile] dpolicar
What distinguishes a formal naming from a mere reference?

Date: 2012-05-09 10:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com
Pedantry. :-)

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