Better name for my blog?

[Bossy Monkey]

Poll question: Better name for my blog?

http://ungodly-in-olympia.blogspot.com/
Other than "Of no possible interest to anyone but myself." Wait-- let me get that on the poll.

Have fun with it; I promise not to take anything (too) personally. I am not easily offended. (And if this is totally ignored, as I rather expect, I'll try to come up with some more offerings, then send it off to the archives.)

[Bossy Monkey]

1. Further offerings. Off to the archives. :) n/t

[solara]

2. I like Blogorrhea

It sounds faintly nasty...

:hi:

[Bossy Monkey]

3. Doesn't it though? I do, too. Unfortunately, it was taken.

Fortunately, I had forgotten I had wanted to name it that when naming time rolled around anyway.
:hi: back!

[solara]

4. Awww fooey.. oh well, I am sure you will pick the perfect name!

:toast:

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

5. Please don't feed the monkey?

just off the top of my tired mind.

[Bossy Monkey]

8. WAY better than the one I actually chose (as linked in OP),

also on a cat theme.

[kentauros]

6. Well, let's look at the etymology of your DU name.

First, "bossy":
1540s, "swelling, projecting and rounded, decorated with bosses" from boss (2). Meaning "domineering, fond of ordering people about" is recorded 1882, from boss (1). As a common cow name it represents L. bos "cow."
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So, that distills down to "cow".

Now, "monkey":
1520s, likely from an unrecorded M.L.G. *moneke or M.Du. *monnekijn, a colloquial word for "monkey," originally a dim. of some Romanic word, cf. Fr. monne (16c.), O.It. monna, Sp. mona. In a 1498 Low German version of the popular medieval beast story "Roman de Renart" ("Reynard the Fox"), Moneke is the name given to the son of Martin the Ape. The O.Fr. form of the name is Monequin (recorded as Monnekin in a 14c. version from Hainault), which could be a dim. of some personal name, or it could be from the general Romanic word, which may be ultimately from Arabic maimun "monkey," lit. "auspicious," a euphemistic usage because the sight of apes was held by the Arabs to be unlucky. The word would have been influenced in Italian by folk etymology from monna "woman," a contraction of ma donna "my lady."
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And that gives us "my lady" as well as "auspicious". Together, it's "cow my lady" but as much of this is Latin, you switch it all around to "My Lady Cow" or even "My Auspicious Lady Cow".

:P

[Bossy Monkey]

7. ATA: "Can I keep my post count and change to My Auspicious Lady Cow?

It means the same thing!" I bet I wouldn't even get any Swedish fish!:P

[kentauros]

9. Maybe they'll give you a babelfish instead

attuned to ancient Latin and Arabic :P

[struggle4progress]

10. "Beware! The Blog" Remastered

[kentauros]

11. That's kind of close to WFMU's "Beware of the Blog"

and might get some cross-traffic :)

http://blog.wfmu.org/

[struggle4progress]

12. *sigh*

All the good ones are taken

[kentauros]

13. Maybe get a copy of "Psychotronic Movies" or "Incredibly Strange Films"

and make up blog titles from that :)

Here's one at random from "The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film":

The Mad Magician
or
The Mad Blogician

:P

[JCMach1]

14. I like: Better Name for My Blog

[old mark]

15. "The good names have already been taken, so I'm stuck with this bullshit...A Blog."

Maybe that's too long...


mark

[MiddleFingerMom]

16. Rum, Sodomy & The Blog n/t

[Bossy Monkey]

18. But wouldn't Rum, Sodomy & The Flash be an awesome name for a Flash game site? n/t

[Bucky]

17. I suggest going with an all-Burt Reynolds tribute format

Pre-Botox, of course.

[Bossy Monkey]

19. I'm more of a Sally Field kind of boy

but for camp purposes, all Burt and Loni, all the time would be awesome.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

20. Monkey Blog ... although Blogorrhea is off the charts fabulous

love that.

[Bossy Monkey]

22. I was sad that it was taken already, but

apparently it's a standard putdown for bad blogs... so I wasn't that sad.:)

[Bossy Monkey]

21. Novel Gazing! I should have called it Novel Gazing, dammit!

(Now you'll just have to read the blog to get an idea why...:))

[Arugula Latte]

23. SlogBlog?

Like, slog through my posts if you feel like it, dude. :)