Name My Bookworm

Maryn · Aug 30, 2007

Among the delightful haul from my most recent birthday was this, a plush version of the real thing. It's delightfully yellow with brown eyes the size of quarters. It's so cute you'd never know its relatives were responsible for boring through the pages of tomes for their entire five-year lifespan, laying waste to some of the world's great libraries.

Most such acquisitions more or less name themselves with only minimal assistance from the humans, but this guy--or is it a girl?--is defying the norm.

What should I name my bookworm, and why?

Maryn, stumped

Azraelsbane · Aug 30, 2007

I'd have to go with Squee. Don't even know why. That's the first thing that entered my mind when I saw him.

Kate Thornton · Aug 30, 2007

Squick was actually my first reaction to that page of plush toys. Eeeww was next...

(But he is cute!)

MidnightMuse · Aug 30, 2007

Well Squee is good. First thing to enter my mind when I saw it was Squish (after a brain eating worm in LEXX)

BenPanced · Aug 30, 2007

Mike Roab.

scarletpeaches · Aug 30, 2007

Leaf - another name for 'page' and it's Joaquin Phoenix's alternate first name!

Mark - it looks like a boy, and you could call him your bookmark

Turner - as in page-turner?

Devil Ledbetter · Aug 30, 2007

I think it's obvious her name should be Em Bryo.

oarsman · Aug 30, 2007

Bait - because I'm fishing for a name

or

Poe - in honor of Poe's "Conqueror Worm" poem.

scarletpeaches · Aug 30, 2007

Laidley, after The Laidley Wyrm.

Ol' Fashioned Girl · Aug 30, 2007

Oh! I like 'Poe'!

Unique · Aug 30, 2007

big eye

Siddow · Aug 30, 2007

Chunky. But she needs some spectacles.

KTC · Aug 30, 2007

It's a Mildred or my name ain't Jethro.

scarletpeaches · Aug 30, 2007

It isn't. It's Kevin the Christ.

KTC · Aug 30, 2007

Yes...but as Christ, I change my name frequently. So, today, as Jethro, I announce the worm to be Mildred. JUDAS!

Oh...and I checked. It's a she.

writerterri · Aug 30, 2007

Siddow said:
Chunky. But she needs some spectacles.

dito

poetinahat · Aug 30, 2007

KTC said:
It's a Mildred or my name ain't Jethro.

EARL! *sniff*

Yew done broke mah heart.

RLB · Aug 30, 2007

I like squick, squee and squish, but I think you need the honorary title of "Dr." in there. Dr. Squick has a nice ring.

And is anyone else inexplicably drawn to the dust mite?

Nakhlasmoke · Aug 30, 2007

Mycroft.

dclary · Aug 30, 2007

Using my traditional naming convention:

Booky McBook-Book.

SpookyWriter · Aug 30, 2007

dclary said:
Using my traditional naming convention:

Booky McBook-Book.

Time to take a break today?

Jacob · Aug 30, 2007

The first thing I thought of was the little worm in the movie "Labyrinth", that says something like "Dont go that way" in a pseudo Australian accent. Then I thought of David Bowie in tights as the goblin king . Thats about all I got.

BenPanced · Aug 30, 2007

KTC said:
It's a Mildred or my name ain't Jethro.

scarletpeaches said:
It isn't. It's Kevin the Christ.

KTC said:
Yes...but as Christ, I change my name frequently. So, today, as Jethro, I announce the worm to be Mildred. JUDAS!

Oh...and I checked. It's a she.

I was gonna say Jethro Christ, but never mind.

Xx|e|ph|e|me|r|al|xX · Aug 30, 2007

RLB said:
I like squick, squee and squish, but I think you need the honorary title of "Dr." in there. Dr. Squick has a nice ring.

And is anyone else inexplicably drawn to the dust mite?

Xx| What about Sir Squick/Squee/Squish?

How about Sir Squeech? :tongue

Dust mite? I must return to that page, now.

ETA--I see now. So, no, but now I'm feeling a tad squeemish.

Sir Squeemish? Hmm...|xX

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