MIXED ANIMAL is on the loose again . . .

[A-Schwarzenegger]

Looks like they might leave it in GD for a while ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9498721

[Heidi]

1. Oscar is my favorite DU celebrity _bar none_.

I don't know if I've ever thanked you for telling us about him. I think the whole world needs to hear about Oscar. :pals:

[A-Schwarzenegger]

2. Thanks, Heidi.

I think the poor old world needs him, too,
and I'm 110% objective. :*

[Heidi]

3. How did you know

that :* is my super-duper secret greeting for DUers I totally adore?????? *Insert "Twilight Zone" theme song here*

:*

[A-Schwarzenegger]

11. I think we found out we both used that backaways.

Me and :* go way back. :* :bluebox: :* :redbox: :*

[Heidi]

13. You just gave me some kinda subdural hemtoma or something.

I don't know if it was alla the kisses or alla the kisses.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

15. I always saw him as a kind of Kierkegaardian canary

giving the whammy. :*

[jobycom]

4. Thanks for the update. Hope you can find someone more suitable.

Why do you have to change Oscar's name?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

6. Well, they already had a book

about an animal named Oscar, for one.
Of course that part is no longer a problem.
But I just wanted a more unusual name. In the original
thread, when somebody asked what his name was, I just
wrote the first thing that came to me, not knowing it was/is
a pretty common name for animals. Plus the other connotations,
esp. Oscar the Grouch, who I think I only knew vaguely of at
the time. So he had a couple other subsequent names that were
off, and the latest is Buzz, Buzzy, but there again, connotations.

I'd like a name that's common but nobody's heard of before, that's it!

[Bossy Monkey]

8. How about Leon?

I'm no help; I call all my characters Joel. Even the women. Makes for some pretty confusing dialogue, let me tell you.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

9. Ha! That's it. I could name him Lemuel after his, um, caretaker.

I like Leon. I've considered so many names it's all a cloud.
Cloud of names. Even "Cloud" I considered.

[jobycom]

14. I know what you mean.

When I reread something I've written, all the names start with J, and all the female names end in a y sound. Chrissie, Becky, Heidi (and I used that one before meeting our dear Heidi here, btw). I have to go back and change names. Since my name is Joby, the J thing is obvious. Someone once told me that the Y is a diminutive ending, implying cuteness and affection, like a term of endearment, so that I'm really showing an affection to all my female characters. It might be true, since the female bad guy characters have more formal names.

Not that I'm a professional writer, or that I've even written anything in years. :(

[jobycom]

10. How about

Joby? :o

[A-Schwarzenegger]

12. You rascal.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. he surely is not a Felix -- he has to be an Oscar!

no name change.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

7. He's such a unique guy

I just want a uniquer name.

[Call Me Wesley]

16. Vince!

There. Vince! I dunno but I like it. ;)

Good vibes finding a proper publisher, and published it must be. :hi:

Can I have my wife back now? :rofl:

[A-Schwarzenegger]

17. Vince is funny.

What in the world did I do with your wife!

Thanks for da vibes, Wesley.
Actually, Wesley would be a good name, too,

[rug]

18. What's Oscar got to say about all this?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

19. He says, "Don't follow me, don't lead me, just be my friend

and leave me the hell alone."

Oh, on the publishing fiasco? He says:

"Get me out there, boy. This old world needs me bad."

[rug]

20. Right he is, on both counts.