What do you call yours?

On the Orlando subject - I had a mate at school called Orlando Pownall. I lost touch with him after that but recently re-found him - no, not through Friends Reunited - he was the prosecuting QC in the Jill Dando trial! So, you see, Orlandos can do well!

I knew someone called Heathcliff James Bond. He was a git but who wouldnt be with a name like that!

During the Congressional hearings to investigate the CIA back in the 70s, there happened to be a rather low-level almost clerical employee at the CIA named James Bond. His name was mentioned over and over for weeks during the hearings, not because he'd done anything, but because he was responsible for filing incoming and outgoing messages, something like that, and his name just kept appearing as a side bar. Of course, every time it was mentioned, the gallery and the senators laughed. I've often wondered what became of him.

2 fish with no names? How about Faber and Faber? >:-)

Our cats, due to my mums unfortunate decision that we should each name one, are called Chloe, Lucky, Twinkie and Crunchy Ben Wodney.

I know a guy who has a pot-bellied pig for a pet. He calls it 'mother-in-law'. He gets in a lot of trouble with his wife when he mixes it's food and then tells her to go feed her mother. p.s. I don't think he likes his in-laws!

After the divorce he can tell everyone his ex-wife's name if "plaintif."

I have 2 german shepherds called Eddie (after 3 of my comedy heroes Murphy, Izzard and Hitler) and Yorkie (after all the bars I've worked in and because he was the runt of the litter and resembled a Yorkshire Terrier at birth). We call them Eddie Munster and York Minster. I know it's not very clever or really funny but it's true.

My cat's called Fergus, which everyone thinks is very odd and un-catlike, but, as my mum said when we got him, he just looks like a Fergus.

When I was but a young lad, I was in lodgings with a French lady (and her husband) They had two jack Russels called

When I was but a young First Officer, I stayed with a French lady (and her English husband) who had two Jack Russels. One was called EFFING and the other BLINDING. She never figured out why people found it funny.

Reminds me of Rocky's two turtles, Cuff and Link. I had cats as pets when I was a kid. One was Rusty because he was a tabby and the color looks like rust. After he died, we got two cats: Fuzz and Little. Fuzz was a long hair. Little was a short hair. Little was actually the same size as Fuzz, but since he had the short hair, he looked smaller, so I called him little. A former work colleague had a cat named Airborne because the cat had a tendency to jump from one piece of furniture to another often.

I have a cat named Moriarty; some people seem to find that amusing. It is a logical name for a sly cat who always comes out on top. My other cat is called Betty Blue: she is always up for sex, despite having had the 'op'. Although it is a slight digression, I went to a party recently and one of the couples there had called their little boy Orlando. How cruel is that? They were obsessed with Shakespeare and so the poor little sod is very lucky he was not called Hamlet.... Apologies to any Orlandos on the threads....

If you had a smart, sly and lazy cat, you could name him Mycroft after Sherlocke's brother. Orlando is not soooo bad, provided the last name is not...say....Florida...and he does not grow up to be a commando....

We used to have two gerbils called Black and Decker, from their habit of chewing through everything. Unfortunately Black died young (squashed under the sofa, poor thing) so the point was lost rather.

I used to know two cats called Phone and Bill. We had a series of cats named after Commander Cody albums - starting with Ozone and then Hot Licks - it was in a commune and so they were communally owned and I can't remember the rest of them! I now have two cats named Fidel Catstro and the second one was to be Miaow Tse Tung but I was over ruled and he's now named Wonder!

Was that Phone Home and Bill Me-Later?

Very good!

V.funny Hox. I have recently bought two goldfish for my mum. They are currently nameless. Suggestions welcome.

Friend of mine had a cat called Weasel