A houseplant by any other name
Yesterday I bought a plant. More precisely, it’s two plants in one pot. One plant has tall, narrow stripy leaves; and the other has broad, solid leaves. Since both plants are in the same pot, it is convenient to write about them in the singular.
I am responsible for watering this plant once a week and keeping it in indirect sunlight. Or else it may die. I, to a large extent, control the fate of this plantÉmuhahahaha.
Anyway, this plant needs a name. Being a dork, I was thinking of naming it after some mathematician (Pythagoras, Euclid, Fibonacci, Leibniz, etc) or ancient Greek natural philosopher (Thales, Anaximander, Xeno, Socrates, Aristotle, etc). J. suggested ironically common names, such as Doug or Bill.
Sorry females, girl’s names are out of the question. It’s a manly plant.
Here’s the idea: leave a comment with your suggestion of my plantÕs name(s)*. Then later, IÕll post a picture of my plant with its new name.
*If I (or collectively you) canÕt decide on a single name, IÕll name each plant separately.
Update 10/2/02:
I’ve decided on names.
I’m going to name both the plants Bob. I will refer to them collectively as ‘the Bobs’, as in, “I’m going to go water the Bobs.” (It’s an Office Space reference.)
Once I convince a friend with a digital camera to photograph the Bobs I’ll put a picture up.
I plan to buy another plant just so I can name it Hobbes. Then I can refer to all my plants as “the Bobs ‘n’ Hobbes”, which sounds funny because it rhymes. :-)
Thanks for your suggestions everyone!
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September 29th, 2002 at 3:41 pm
Is Bush ironic enough?
September 29th, 2002 at 11:22 pm
you could be pop-y and call them “Bill and Ted”.
September 30th, 2002 at 12:14 am
How about “Hobbes,” after philosopher Tomas Hobbes?
Plus, it could refer to Calvin’s little stuffed tiger… how cute is that?
September 30th, 2002 at 8:49 am
Hayduke
September 30th, 2002 at 1:25 pm
Those are good suggestions. Keep ‘em coming. I think I’ll decide tomorrow.
(I like Hobbes a lot. That’ll definitely be one of the plants.)
October 1st, 2002 at 12:00 am
I think we need a picture of your newly acquired plant if we’re to comment intelligently about its name.
Like what if I suggest the name Euclid and then you post the picture and it turns out the plant exists in non-Euclidean space?
What then Aaron, what then?!?
But seriously, name it Bob.
October 1st, 2002 at 3:37 am
last night my roommate and i wasted at least an hour talking about how funny it would be to name a baby stalin.
i believe it is also funny to name a plant stalin (not quite as funny as a baby, but still funny).
October 1st, 2002 at 5:24 am
naming a baby stalin is about just as funny as naming a baby hitler or osama nowadays, no?
October 1st, 2002 at 4:25 pm
I say go for Theophrastus. He, like Aristotle, began to name plants, classify them, and such. I would suggest Aristotle, but that name is like, totally overused. hehe
October 2nd, 2002 at 9:47 am
Ok, I’ve decided on names.
I’m going to name both the plants Bob. I will refer to them collectively as ‘the Bobs’, as in, “I’m going to go water the Bobs.” (It’s an Office Space reference.)
Once I convince a friend with a digital camera to photograph the Bobs I’ll put a picture up.
I plan to buy another plant just so I can name it Hobbes. Then I can refer to all my plants as “the Bobs ‘n’ Hobbes”, which sounds funny because it rhymes. :-)
Thanks for your suggestions everyone!
October 3rd, 2002 at 9:38 am
just to clarify that i am not ACTUALLY condoning or making fun of facism and mass genocide, a baby named stalin is funny in the same was as it was funny when the onion ran a picture of a baby dressed a hitler with the caption “ann gedes is starting to loose it.” that, in fact, was quite funny. i do not aspire to quite the same level of greatness, but the point is that scary babies are funny. stalin is scary. so scary, in fact, that his scariness cancels out the cuteness of the baby. scary plants are pretty funny, too. hence, “little shop of horrors.”
October 3rd, 2002 at 2:57 pm
clarification. i was “just sayin’.” funny is because of the irony. scary in and of itself is never funny. governments need a sense of humor (aka Germany).
October 8th, 2002 at 6:15 pm
Ahhh, yeaah…About those plants…The Bobs? Yeah, ah, why don’t you go ahead and water them, mm-okay? Great…
October 9th, 2002 at 11:07 am
Lomberg: You’ve been missing a lot of times you were supposed to water the Bobs.
Me: I wouldn’t say I’ve been missing them, Lomberg.
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