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Isn't it Max Headroom?

Max Headroom was the dog's balls. I loved every minute of it.

Of course, I havent's seen it since it originally aired in the 80s, so I couldn't say how well it has aged.

Max Headroom was all kinds of fuckin cheesy awesomesauce!!! Matt Frewer was the tits.

In response to the poll, I had a cat named Remington Steele....does that count?

My dog is Lucy, but sometimes I shorten it to Luce. And sometimes I pretend Luce stands for Lucius. And sometimes I have a strong urge to dress her up in a blond wig and give her a pimpcane.

Does that count?

Perhaps you've met my cat, Big Butt Sluts Go Nuts.

I have a dog named Ceili, after the Black 47 song, and another named Audrey, after Ms. Hepburn. So, yeah, I guess I do.

I had thought (happily so, I might add) that we'd shot J-Lo into space, which is why I never hear about her anymore. Someone lied to me. Someone will pay for that.

My mom named my girl cat Bob after George Clooney's cat in the movie One Fine Day. My mom lurves George Clooney. And the cat is totally nuts, so her full name is Psycho Bob. I also had a black cat named Murphy, after Eddie Murphy.

We also have a cat named Mika. She was named that well before Paranormal Activity came out, but it was odd and kind of creepy to watch, as my name is Katie.

The IOC is investigating the Canadian women's hockey team for bringing alcohol onto the ice, not for acting unladylike. As in, they rushed to the bench, grabbed brews and cigars, and then skated around while downing beers and smoking cigars after winning. Which, it turns out, might be against the proper code of conduct at the Olympics.

So, the problem was alcohol brought out onto an Olympic venue, not unladylike conduct. That's a really twisted interpretation of a pretty straightforward issue: don't drink on the ice at the Olympics.

My mum's cat is Mister from The Dresden Files . I prefer to name my cats after important things, like wine! They are named Pichon and Brion (Château Pichon Longueville Baron and Château Haut-Brion).

You haven't heard? I think she was spotted with Lindsay Lohan off the coast of...lets go with...Oregon. They were sighted at the filming locale of "Goonies 2: One Eyed Willie's Erection," which is purportedly about a tower that Willie built before he died that hides, like, his OTHER cache' of gold. Lohan is playing "Mouth." Obviously.

I had (4) parakeets named Gonzo :) at different times... and my dog Toby is short for Tobias...

Our dog is named Millie (and/or Mildred) after Millie Helper on the Dick Van Dyke Show. Yes, we had TV in the '60s, kids. It was black and white and you had to get up and turn a knob to change the channel (or you could hit your little sister until she got up and changed it for you).

I had a hamster named Frodo. And, yes, that was long before the movies.

Much love Sofi.

Also MAX HEADROOM!!!!!!!

We've had fish called Mulder and Scully and a rabbit called Thumper but nothing original.
I want to get an adorable kitten and call it Muar Dip then run around with blue eyeshadow on yelling 'AND HOW CAN THIS BEE?! FOR HE IS THE KWISATZ HADERACH' When ever the thing does anything cute or funny.
But Alex want to call it Roi.

You know they are gonna eat that puppy, right?

I used to have a cat named Church (Pet Sematary), but he died and thus far hasn't been resurrected.

superasente
That ain't a crack at me is it?
Being a Lindsey in Oregon.

I have a cat named Basil, after Basil Fawlty. If you don't know who that is you are dead to me.
I also have a cat named Bram, partly after Bram Stoker (he was born in the brambles and I caught him on Halloween)
We named our first cat Ariel, from The Tempest (NOT THE LITTLE FUCKING MERMAID)
We named a dog Fletcher,partly after the Chevy Chase character Fletch.
I had a horse I named Quentin, (Tarantino was pretty hot then)

Names for future cats: Edmund (Blackadder)
Rupert (Campbell-Black from a book series by Jilly Cooper, any of you who can have an intelligent discussion with me about Riders, Rivals, or Polo MIGHT just get a Godtopus.)
Abner (cause it's funny)

Sylvan, Isobel, Milton, and Rosemary are cats past.

I once had a tank full of fishes named after all the characters in Rocky Horror. It's a family thing, I think; my mom had a cat before I was born who was named Piwacket after the cat in Bell, Book, and Candle, and the cats we had when I was small were named Boris and Natasha by my dad. They were never particularly interested in either Moose or Sqvirrel, though. I believe my mom also, at some point, had a cat called Cat, as in Breakfast at Tiffany's. We had another cat later we called Gus Gus, like ashes's dog, but he was actually named after the Gus in Cats; we also had a Rum Tum Tugger whom we just called Tugger. My 2 cats had people names, but my third (actually my brother's who stayed with us when he moved to Florida) is technically named Princess Leia, though we just call her Poofie.

Pseudo-Mr. vB, meanwhile, has only ever had budgies as pets. They were mainly named just odd names pulled out of the air. One pair he named Tohsein and Graceyo (check the cover of an old scrabble box; those are the "words" the tiles spell in the picture) and he had a pair called Phreak and Philo also. Our last several were called Kosch. They were all called Kosch. (Anybody who gets THAT reference gets a shiny nickel*.)

*not a real nickel

OH, I linked a pic of the Canadian girls on FB. I think they're totally bad ass, and 'unladylike'?
Is...is it 1952?
Those girls celebrating their win with beers and cigars is the sexiest, coolest thing i've seen in a LONG time and I hope they continue to do so in such a manner and show young girls watching at home, that THAT, is how you be a world recognised icon.

ashes, my sister and I still say "duhduhduh, HAPPY BERFDAY!" to one another in honor of Gus Gus.

Paddy: You hate Chevy Chase but go for the Robin Williams reference??

WAH???

My mind = blown.

I have to add my brother's cats to the mix here. He named them Tango and Cash.

Your brother is wise and worthy of praise.

I've already got the names picked out for my next two animals: Jasper for my cat (after Jasper Fforde, the author) and for my dog if I ever get one, Jezra (the nickname James May calls Jeremy Clarkson on BBC's Top Gear). If I get a pot belly pig, I'll call him/her Snoopy. We are moving to 3.3 acres in the "country" this coming fall, and I'm already dreaming of my menagerie.

I have a Parrotlet (smallest of the Parrot species) and her name is Kessie after the Winnie the Pooh story "Find Her, Keep Her". It's a very sweet story.

We had a fish named Draco Malfoy. After the books, not the movies. Or whichever. It didn't matter because he was a fish and only lived for a year and a half.

In college - long before Eps I through III - I wanted a tarantula named Annikin, but my roommate was scared of spiders. I also wanted a puppy named Noonian. I think I might be a geek.

My husband remembers "Steampipe Alley," but I don't.

And I think that modeling might be perfect for James Franco, since he's much, much prettier when he's not speaking.

I have a black cock(er spaniel) named Nate Dogg.

And if you smoke like he smokes, then you're high, like, every day.

Mamasezz I just started reading the NCD Books!!! I'm buying the Thursday Next books asap!

No but seriously, Damfino, my cheeky border collie

Nadine, Thursday Next and NCD are wonderful, but his latest, Shades of Grey, is FANTASTIC!

3 boy cats - Bob, Theo, and Daisy. My 3 year old named the 3rd cat.

But the best named cat was my pseudo-long haired buff-coloured female that had these odd butt tuffs. She was named Sarah, Duchess of Clive-in-Exile.

I used to have a cat named Huckleberry Finn. (We called him "Huck" most of the time.) My hamster's name was Becky. (She also turned out to be a he. You can't really tell with them, so I just took a stab in the dark.)

Both were named after reading the book and then seeing the movie Huck Finn that I believe had Elijah Wood in it.

I used to have a parakeet named Petrie after the flying dinosaur from The Land Before Time. Other than that, our pets don't have much of a theme. We had a Persian named Cleopatra, and now my parents have two Persians named Caesar and Samantha (I guess this could be from Bewitched - my mom liked the name). My dad wanted to name her Buttercup from The Princess Bride but decided he didn't want a cat he'd be calling Butt for short.

I have always wanted to name a dog Shane, preferably a beagle b/c they run away and never come back. Then I would stand in the backyard and yell "Shane! Come back Shane!"

But secretly I would hope the dog was dead because beagles are stupid, annoying dogs.

I'm a cat person, but I want a dog just so I can name him Doogie Chowser.

What Jadine said:

just give whatever you can, whether it's your money, your skill, your time

I'll add: Give sensibly.

Make sure it gets there. Make sure it'll actually help. For any charity I want to know the pass-through & the commitment of whoever is hitting me up. Anyone getting paid to hit me up to donate, well, ain't getting much. Anyone who can't answer "What's your pass-through?" off the top of their minds - nope. Your attention is in the wrong place.

And do something that you're good at, which means a disaster is not the time to suddenly act like a first responder if you have not the skills. Amazon.com - not my favorite organization. Yet, immediately after the attacks on the US in September, 2001, Amazon.com put a Red Cross logo & donation button on the landing page. When the Red Cross couldn't handle the load, Amazon processed the transactions.

Offer what you're good at, not what'll make you seem all important.

/Rant

And folks who - just to make up something crazy - complain that their "inspection" flight got delayed by the people who ... now what might be a difference here ... oh, let's say got their asses on the ground actually doing something, well I'm not giving you a dime. I'm going fund you getting in the way, then getting snippy about it?

And BTW, what the hell does anybody need another bureaucat, celebrity or news crew flying into Haiti when there's people bleeding & starving on one side, a stack of people with skills & supplies on the other, and one airport in the middle. We don't need more consciousness-raising when we already got the memo. (And props to Gupta and others who said: "Right now, I'm a doctor first.")

But, consciousness-raising has its advantages. It's easy. It involves emoting. It's about telling other people what to do. And it's a photo-op. What's not to like if you're in the being famous for emoting business. Even better, "consciousness-raising" doesn't take the grinding years of developing actual skills or working outside the spotlight. (I'm talking to you, Bono.)

Stace, you forgot about the American team "ice dancing" to the slow American Idol-esque version of "Billie Jean." Although considering we were in shock, you may have just blocked it out.

My late dog was named Riggs. Yes he was. And I often told him that I was getting too old for this shit.

Ha, if you read far enough into any Pajiba thread you will find an attack on Bono.

I have a yellow Retriever (1/2 lab, 1/2 golden) named Princess Buttercup. Her nickname is Wampus, though, because she's just that kind of dog.

I have a dog named Kahn, after Madeline. It's a boy, so if he understood such things, he might be offended.

Of course, everyone assumes he's named for Genghis Khan anyway.

Our Boston Terrier is named after an album--he's Sergeant Pepper. Our first Boston was Abbey (after Abbey Road, of course). You can probably guess the hubby's favorite band.

Er - "Becks's law." My bad. "Beck's law" would have to do with that guy on the TV, I think. Very different.

We had a cockatiel named "Mama Day." Admittedly literary and not a movie.

On another note, pet theme songs.

One of our (3) cats is named Mini after her place of birth (my mini-van). We sing "Born in a mini van" to her to the tune of "Born in the USA" but with a spanish accent ala Cheech and Chong.

We had a rat, Rex, whose theme song was "Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage." Joke was on us when he'd bite one of us during feeding time. Rex's new song is "Born Free."

That puppy makes me cry, it is so adorable.

And, LindsEy: he was also delicious. *smacks lips with gusto*

I totally have four turtles named Donatello, Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo. Blame my brother, not me.

I totally had a dog named Snoop (because I am from Long Beach, so of course I did). He was the best dog ever. My current dog, Kahlua (also named after something I love) is adorable and sweet, but dumb as a stump. Snoop was smart and athletic and urbane... I miss him.

Sofi, I am so glad to hear that you're okay!!

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" I'd institute the "no pants on allowed in the house" rule with Megan Fox and never look back (p.s. you can take that rule and apply to your better half/frigbuddy/sexy deliveryman)."

Posted by: D-Day

I have applied the No Pants Rule to my back room full of milkmen.