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Post by embracethefall on May 29, 2015 16:18:54 GMT -5
So I can not, for the life of me, settle on a name for my wonderful little Quaker! It has gone from Lucky, to Buddy, to The Dude in a matter of a week. I have ultimately decided that each name I picked was not good enough, and so here I am. I want to name him something that befits an animal of his intelligence, since that is the feature I love most about psittacines. I'd like input from any fellow scholars, scientists, history buffs, nerds or geeks. Make it something profound. A famous scientific discovery, figure, or word that embodies the idea of knowledge. Right now, Hawking is at the top of my list, after my personal hero Stephen Hawking. Ideas?
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Post by easttex on May 29, 2015 17:52:59 GMT -5
Hmmm, Aristotle or Socrates. Isaac or Newt, Benjy or Franklin, the under-celebrated Dewey of Dewey decimal fame, Winston (Churchill). The last two were not scientists per se, but they were learned. Einstein has been way overdone with greys. That was fun.  |
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Post by embracethefall on May 29, 2015 17:57:01 GMT -5
Oooh. Darwin!
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Post by dfluff on May 29, 2015 22:19:31 GMT -5
Some more ideas: Albert, Parcival, Plato, Euclid  |
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Post by easttex on May 30, 2015 8:09:31 GMT -5
A few more, if you haven't settled on one yet: Copernicus, Sagan, Ptolemy, Nash, Bok (for body of knowledge). Or, for my personal science hero, some variation on Stephen Jay Gould.
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Post by embracethefall on May 30, 2015 15:12:41 GMT -5
I finally settled on Darwin. Or should I say, he settled on it! I gave him the choice between that or Hawking, and said several names each time for his judgement. I got three rounds of absolute silence for Hawking, and three rounds of resounding chirps and head bobs for Darwin, so I considered the matter closed, haha.
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Post by biteybird on May 30, 2015 21:59:55 GMT -5
Darwin is great! I was going to suggest Dalai (I like the Dalai Llama), but you have made a great choice already. |
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Post by julianna on May 31, 2015 13:09:27 GMT -5
I think you should have called him Julianna... lmaooo
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Post by aaron on Jun 1, 2015 9:44:07 GMT -5
Darwin is a great name!!
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