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mistressofmuses) wrote2024-07-25 07:27 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2024-07-25 07:27 pm
Big Mad? Or...
So I mentioned that I was considering naming my dear new toad "Big Mad." (Because placing her in a transport cup made her big mad for a small toad.) But then I was a bit consumed with regret, because I realized there was another great name available to her.
Broccoli Cheddar Bomb was named such because when he was transported to me, his travel container was a broccoli cheddar soup container. (Bomb came from Bombina, the genus that fire-bellied toads belong to.)
I could keep with the naming conventions that gave me Broccoli Cheddar Bomb's name, as the new toad also got transported in a container that previously held food. In this case, a Summer Berry Refresher from Starbucks. (The genus for Woodhouse's toads is Anaxyrus which sounds pretty cool, but not as easy to combine with something else for a name.)
(These names are gender-neutral; male and female Woodhouse's toads are very difficult to tell apart, except that females are larger when full-grown, and males may sing around breeding time. We aren't there yet for this one, so the "she" is arbitrary.)
So what do you think would be the ideal name for this toad:
In the Summer Berry Refresher cup (again; this was in yesterday's post).
And in her pond today.
Broccoli Cheddar Bomb was named such because when he was transported to me, his travel container was a broccoli cheddar soup container. (Bomb came from Bombina, the genus that fire-bellied toads belong to.)
I could keep with the naming conventions that gave me Broccoli Cheddar Bomb's name, as the new toad also got transported in a container that previously held food. In this case, a Summer Berry Refresher from Starbucks. (The genus for Woodhouse's toads is Anaxyrus which sounds pretty cool, but not as easy to combine with something else for a name.)
(These names are gender-neutral; male and female Woodhouse's toads are very difficult to tell apart, except that females are larger when full-grown, and males may sing around breeding time. We aren't there yet for this one, so the "she" is arbitrary.)
So what do you think would be the ideal name for this toad:
In the Summer Berry Refresher cup (again; this was in yesterday's post).
And in her pond today.
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What should this toad's name be?
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"Big Mad"
3 (30.0%)
"Summer Berry Refresher"
1 (10.0%)
Why not both: "Big Mad Summer Berry Refresher"
6 (60.0%)
Re: I'm liking Berry Mad!