My beloved fiancee received two hermit crabs for Christmas. Due to pressures both foreign and domestic, she has not named the crabs yet, and has consistently (cruelly, some would say) rejected my suggestions.
(pictured: a very similar hermit crab)
Luckily, I have the wisdom of crowds on my side. If any commentor suggests a pair of names for two hermit crabs which are adopted by my fiancee, I’ll donate $20 to Habitat for Humanity in his or her name.
I don’t really remember. I do remember that I was a strong advocate for Joey and Johnny. I thought that they nicely complemented the name of our dog, Ramona. The judges were not swayed.
Hermit & Hismit.
How about Cake and Cocktail :-)
How about Cake and Cocktail :-)
Gannon & Guckert?
Having had hermit crabs as pets a couple of times, I will suggest
Stop that Nocturnal Clunking Noise This Instant!
and
Wait — Where’d He Go?
“Hermit & Hismit.”
LOL. I vote for that one. But how do we know they’re a male and a female?
leon and sophie
Buster & Body
Fafnir & Giblets. What else?
Dr. Zoidberg and Clamps
Buster & Body
(Or possibly 503 and Server Error, in honor of CT. Watch me double-post.)
“I do remember that I was a strong advocate for Joey and Johnny.”
Ok then I guess there’s no female in there. Too bad.
(I almost read “Joey and Chandler” instead… errr…)
Unoriginally, hermit made me think of Kermit, so, my shameless suggestion: Kermit and Elmo. Ouch.
Dr. Zoidberg and Clamps
Chad and Jeremy? Salt n Peppah?
Hermits, huh?
How about Anthony and Giles?
See:
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainta06.htm
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintg15.htm
We don’t know what their genders are, and it’s likely that we never will. Don’t let that constrain your imagination.
(I love “Stop that Nocturnal Clunking Noise This Instant!” The quiet scraping and clunking frequently reminds me of the old Steven King story “The Bogeyman”. Not that I’m chicken.)
Frannie and Zoe
Anomura and Paguridae
You could curry favor with your fellow CT-ites and name them John and Belle. But then they’d have to get a blog.
You could name them J.D. and Greta, after famous human hermits.
MKK
Herman and Derek (or Keith, or Karl, or Barry).
El Bombastico and Un Hombre Muy Magnifico.
How about El Bombastico and Un Hombre Muy Magnifico?
Trixie and Bubbles.
fanny & alexander
If not Anthony and Giles for hermits, then Statler and Waldorf for crabs?
As hermits, the live in the Hermit Kingdom, right ?
How about Amaterasu and Omikami.
Pride and Prejudice
Fons and Origo
Vine and Fig-tree
Cranky and crusty (Well, they are CRABS!!!)
Sorry about the multiples. I kept getting 404s and when I went back and refreshed, the post weren’t there.
lola & verne (my parents bridge partners)
tristan & isolde
charles & camilla
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Beanie & Cecil
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Crab Calloway and Crabby Hayes
Skitter and Scatter
Bill and Hillary
FYI, using this fun tool, check out how Hillary™ apparently killed-off the name “Hillary”
Whoops, wrong country for Hermit Kingdom. Make it Yogi and Togi, Korean for here and there.
Flash and Speedy?
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
John the Baptist and Obi-wan Kenobi? (Crabby hermits :-)
Given the shortlived nature of hermit crabs, that last seems like an unnecessarily heartless set-up for not all that much of a punchline.
Sorry, last post referred to Rosencrantz & Guildenstern.
How about Claude & Claudette?
Are you making fun of The Wisdom of Crowds? I just checked that book out the library this morning and will start reading this weekend. I hope you’re not dismissing it.
My dogs are named Bonnie & Clyde, but you can’t have it.
Hesse & Heydrich?
Munster & Mankiewicz?
How about Ethan and Mattie?
I was a strong advocate for Joey and Johnny
Are you a Calexico fan by any chance?
From the Muppet Show Box seats.
Waldorf & Statler
The Captain and Tenille.
optionally:
Simon and Simon.
Ever and anon.
Fred ‘n’ Ginger!
Bonnie ‘n’ Clyde!
Laurel ‘n’ Hardy!
Lennon ‘n’ MacCartney!
Tom ‘n’ Jerry!
Gilbert ‘n’ Sullivan!
Peaches ‘n’ Creme!
Mango ‘n’ Chutney!
Serbo ‘n’ Croat!
Banger ‘n’ Mash!
Fish ‘n’ Chips!
Pinky ‘n’ Perky!
Sooty ‘n’ Sweep!
Majikthijs ‘n’ Vroomfondel!
Ford ‘n’ Arthur!
Zaphod ‘n’ Trillian!
Bosnia ‘n’ Herzogovina!
Serbia ‘n’ Montenegro!
Gin ‘n’ Tonic!
Whisk(e)y ‘n’ Coke!
Wodka ‘n’ Orange!
Gilbert ‘n’ Sullivan!
Rogers ‘n’ Hart
Is there a shortage, round your way?
I’m with LizardBreath—give them names that will enoble their deaths.
John the Baptist and John of Patmos?
Dumb and Dumber
Click and Clack
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hermies/message/58487
Harold & Maude
Nicky & Paris
Hepburn & Tracy
Wallace & Gromit
doo wah diddy
dum diddy doo
(she can sing their names, too)
doo wah diddy diddy dum diddy doo…
(all join in)
[applause]
Brooks and Safire?
Pete and Repeat?
Vladimir and Estragon
I named my crabs Claud and Shelly
I named my crabs Claud and Shelly
I named my crabs Claud and Shelly
Nebula and Apple would be new-age nice. But how about Keats and Chapman for that classic touch?
Nest and Rest
car and cdr
If they’re living together in the same tank, they’re obviously NOT hermit crabs. They’re cenobite crabs.
Therefore: Pinhead and Chatterer.
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
Charles and Camilla
Clause and Deflect?
Sushi and Sashimi
Oscar and Felix
Castor and Pollox (don’t try loudly calling them home)
H1 and H2
The Amazing Rondos!
Crunch! and Oh Shit!
Mayo and Butter
Mel and Danny (from ‘Lethal Claws 1’)
Charles and Pamela
Fuck,I meant Charles and Camillia. But I see luckyman beat me to it anyway.
OK, Di and Dodi.
Crabsky and Hutch
Butch Hermit and the Sundance Shell
Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister
Alien and Predator
Ludwig and Karl
From my own experience with hermit crabs, you can coax em out of their shells, into they’ve retreated and blocked the entrance with that big flat claw when you pick ‘em up, by whistling very high pitched yet close and quiet. Try it. It does work.
How about taking them down to the seaside where they belong?
Abelard and Heloise
Albin and Renato
Sushi and Sashimi
I knew a woman who had Siamese cats by those names.
I have a friend who once had goldfish named Macaroni & Cheese.
As a child, I had gerbils named Lucy & Linus.
I must avoid this thread or I’m not going to get a thing done today.
(And besides, I still stand behind my two suggestions supra: Hermit & Hismit, or Gannon & Guckert. No wait, scratch the latter; it may be too short-term topical. I have a 16-year-old cat named Raisa, which made perfect sense in 1989, given the high visibility of Mme Gorbachev. But today, you’d be surprised how many people say “That’s a pretty name. Did you make it up?”)
OK, now I’m really getting out of here…
Mr Crabs and Patrick
siskel and ebert
pinchy and mojo
sacco and vanzetti
simon and garfunkel
teenwolf and teenwolf too
I named my crabs Claude and Shelly.
Bubble and Squeak
Tessio and Clemenza
Rico and Youngblood?
Merry & Pippin
Mr. Krabs & Plankton
Aziraphale & Crowley
Kaczynski & Hughes
Worker & Parasite.
Worker & Parasite.
Strange & Norrell
(Or, Drawlight & Lascelles)
Johnson & Boswell
Strange & Norrell
(Or, Drawlight & Lascelles)
Johnson & Boswell
Crabbe & Goyle
Cancer and Chemo.
They better be very different sizes or be in very different-looking shells or you can use one name for both, since you won’t be able to tell them apart.
That being said:
Slip and Slide
Button and Hook
Larry and Curly
Moe and Shemp
Amas and Amat (then, if you get a third hermie…Amo!)
Invino and Veritas
Homer and Virgil
…and I better stop, right now.
Rocky & Bullwinkle!
Ayn and Nathaniel
Ayn and Nathaniel
Canon and Nanoc (music joke).
I’m suprised no one has said:
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
sid & nancy
george & laura
amos & moses
caseyl, to tell ‘em apart, you paint the names on the shells - along with some nice racing stripes if yer so inclined.
Bogie & Bacall
Godzilla & Gojira
Little Boy & Fatman
Kirk & Spock
Dubya & Bambi
Fluffy & Cuddles
Brutus & Spike
I affectionately call my daughter’s goldfish
Sushi and Sashimi
-Doofus and Goober
-Antony and Cleopatra
-Slip and Shod
-Incrab and Outcrab (philosophy joke, ask Kieran to ask L.A.)
-Nook and Cranny
-Ontology and Philology (to be decided upon by which one recapitulates which)
-Mr. Fantastic and She-Hulk
-Essence and Accident
-Tit and Tat
-Hodge and Podge
-Willy and Nilly
-Hoi and Polloi
-Flotsam and Jetsam
-Balder and Dash
-Flim and Flam
-Helter and Skelter
-Etc. and etcetera
Charm and strangeness?
Gemeinschaft & Gesellschaft.
Morbidly Obese and Anal Avalanche
Morbidly Obese and Anal Avalanche
Stalin & Beria
Kang and Kodos?
Has anyone suggested Lennon and McCartney?
Goofus and Gallant?
John-John and Carolyn?
Ebert and Roper? Siskel and Ebert?
Meat and Potatoes?
Frank and Earnest?
Richler and Coen?
Ghost and Steve?
“You could curry favor with your fellow CT-ites and name them John and Belle. But then they’d have to get a blog.”
Ooh, I like that.
You could put a sign up over them, saying “John and Belle Have A Cage”
(or A Tank, or A Shell, or whatever)
You will let us know what names they end up with, won’t you?
How about “Obi-Wan” and “Zarathustra”?
“Blake” and “Shell(e)y”?
“Mary” and “Percy”?
“Page” and “Plant”?
“Kruschev” and “Castro”?
“Asterix” and “Obelix”?
“Wordsworth” and “Coleridge”?
“Starsky” and “Hutch”?
“Peaches” and “Herb”?
“Ben” and “Jerry”?
“Butch” and “Sundance”?
“Elton” and “Bernie”?
And you will donate the $20 to Habitats for Hermanity?
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