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A Troubling Trend: Dog Owners Naming Their Pets After Dictators
Los Angeles Times ^
| Lindsay Barnett
Posted on 03/26/2009 3:48:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Their data base was only launched last year. How do they know this is a new, disturbing trend? I knew people 20 years ago who called their german shepherds Hitler and Mussolini. I think the reporter just emerged, dewey fresh, from a bandbox into the real world. No wonder the LA Times is hemorrhaging readers and money.
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posted on
03/26/2009 4:09:07 PM PDT
by
La Lydia
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
03/26/2009 4:14:24 PM PDT
by
ETL
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To: nickcarraway
My sister has named her cats after tyrants from the ancient past.
To: nickcarraway
Which is more popular, Barak or Obama?
To: mainepatsfan
My new yellow lab that I am getting in 6 weeks is named Patsy.
She is named after St Patrick, since the litter was born on St Patrick's Day.
By the way when she was born the placenta and amniotic fluid got on her fur and she came out with green fur.
The vet said that her regular coat will come back in a couple weeks.
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03/26/2009 4:20:01 PM PDT
by
mware
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To: nickcarraway
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posted on
03/26/2009 4:22:04 PM PDT
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ETL
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To: nickcarraway
My cat’s name is Oreo. Could that be construed as having named him after our Dear Leader?
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posted on
03/26/2009 4:22:10 PM PDT
by
prismsinc
(A.K.A. "The Terminator"!)
To: nickcarraway
My dog’s name is “Twice”.
To: nickcarraway
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03/26/2009 4:26:12 PM PDT
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ETL
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To: nickcarraway
My Ozzy is named after the Ozman himself.
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posted on
03/26/2009 4:27:07 PM PDT
by
geege
To: nickcarraway
When I was really little we had an Afghan Hound named Genghis Khan. Ghengi for short.
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posted on
03/26/2009 4:32:03 PM PDT
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rattrap
To: MaxMax
Only Muts can be named Obama.Just the Heinz 57 State dogs?
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posted on
03/26/2009 4:32:47 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Cloward-Piven Strategy)
To: jakerobins
RE: “What no Mugabes..or Putins..or an Idi Amin?? Would it be Presumptious to name my dog TOTUS??? LOL”
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Some years ago I had Russian immigrant neighbors who owned a wonderful Airedale named “Gorby” after Gorbachev, of course. It made sense — Gorbachev did open things up a bit there after the darker days of the old Soviet Union. I know, because I visited Moscow and “Leningrad” in ‘77 and ‘85 and it was not pretty, trust me.
I like TOTUS for dog’s name, but my silly chow mix is named “Abby” — much to the dismay of the lib-moms in the neighborhood who have named their precious girl children “Abby” as well.
To: mellow velo
I knew a Doberman once named “Ruger.” heh heh
To: Lurking Libertarian
I remember reading a story some years ago about a guy up in Dutchess County, NY who named his dog "Tawana Brawley."
I still laugh at that one.
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posted on
03/26/2009 4:47:21 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
To: nickcarraway
I would be leery of anyone who named a big, threatening dog after a historic, mass-murdering dictator. But with little dogs I think it's the ultimate form of dis-ing. I once knew a Christian pastor who's wife had a tiny yapping ankle-biter ... and they named him “Caesar”.
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posted on
03/26/2009 4:49:13 PM PDT
by
LiberConservative
("Get your gun and bring in the cat")
To: nickcarraway
Would a dog named "Barney Frank" spend all day licking himself?
To: nickcarraway
I named my rams after heroes and tyrants: Ajax, Etzel (a variant of Attila) Dion, Darius, Genghis, etc.
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03/26/2009 5:37:03 PM PDT
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Mad Dawg
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03/26/2009 5:42:30 PM PDT
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To: nickcarraway
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03/26/2009 5:57:56 PM PDT
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ETL
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