The Tattooed Lady and Martians!!!

[AnniesMom]

Mouse Killa asked me a question... Honey Bun?? Well, she is named after the large boa owned by the tattooed lady Patty from the book by Robert Heinlein about a Martian man called Stranger in a Strange Land . Jake the Snake is a wrestler and my other boa. Annie is a BP named for Anniversary Present, in recognition of my firsts anniversary when my husband bought her for me.

So the question is, where do your snakes names come from? If you don't name them(Clarke, tee hee!), why? I've seen posts where people list their snakes names and the variety is incredible.

[maiden_canada]

annies mom! don't mock me! i just don't name snakes because i don't talk to them. i don't talk to them because they don't hear me. they can't hear me because they don't have functioning ears. i don't know why they don't have functioning ears. :P

[morph]

thats easy Clarke cause they don't want too hear the stupid names people give them.

[Linds]

Snake names only...

<i>Andora</i>- several witches have been named this
<i>Tasha</i>- just popped in my head one day when I looked at her
<i>Darky</i>- very dark specimen (ya that's creative ... just like the black fish I had when I was a kid that I called Blacky )
<i>Slowpoke</i>- had a bit of an unexplained rough month as a neo
<i>Mr Poopypants</i>- started out as Mr Grumpypants but soon changed because of the wonderful mess he used to create
<i>Satabria</i>- sometimes carries the tip of her tail like an airplane
<i>Chasey</i>- reminds me of Chasey Lain
<i>Peanut</i>- her head reminds me of either a peanut of a bulldog
<i>Marvin</i>- Marvin the martian after all the alien markings on hsi sides
<i>Tali</i>- just popped in to my head when I looked at her
<i>Poe</i>- same as above
<i>Bugs</i>- came with the name, named after his eyes
<i>Sweetness</i>- just that
<i>Rocket</i>- when I aquired her at the show Shane opened her container to take her out, and she shot out like a rocket and took off on the floor She still makes those attempts to this day, and her red colour reminds me of a rocket.
<i>Monkey</i>- behaves like a silly monkey

I still have several that aren't named. I just wait for something to pop in to my head that suits the snake, not just because I like a name or whatnot, hence it can sometimes take a while

[SerpentLust]

Haha I wanna play!

Montey - Because she was my first snake and I stupidly allowed my parents to name her...as soon as I said she's a python...they chose the damn name

Numair - My favourite Character in the Tamora Pierce Quartet "Wild Magic" and he's a black robe and Numair is a Mexican Black King..it works lol

Jenn

mine are mostly serpent dieties

[Invictus]

Corn Snakes:

Morpheus, Neo, Trinity - DUH
Raistlin, Caramon, Goldmoon, Kitiara, Tasslehoff - Characters from the Dragonlance novels.

Boas:

Anubis - Egyptian god of the underworld
Hades - Greek god of the underworld
Hera - Greek, goddess of war
Zeus - Greek, Father of the gods
Aprodite - Greek goddess of love

King & Milk Snakes:

Merlin, Igraine, Arthur, Guenevere - DUH
Leviathan - Another name for Satan.

Columbian Rainbows:

Arwen and Galadriel - DUH

Ball Pythons:

Damian - DUH
Lilith - Biblical. The first wife of Adam. The original demon.

Blood Python - Nefertiti. Egyptian Queen.

Kenyans:

Westley, Buttercup - from The Princess Bride
Mickey, Mallory - Natural Born Killers

Ummm.... I think that's it...

[AnniesMom]

Those names are all great! I was just teasing you Clarke!

[drewlowe]

All of my herps are named after Mavel characters, but i'm going to start running out of names soon so i'll have to think of a differnt way off doing it.

Geckos- Speedball, Domino, Rouge, Psyloke (lucky), Siren, Elektra

Corns- Havoc, Silver Sable (sable)

Bearded dragons- Logan (wolverine's real name is logan) and Raven (mystics real name)

Rose hair T- Night Crawler.

And the only one not named after a marvel charcter would be Neo my veiled cham. He was my friends for 2 weeks and he named him so i didn't want to change the name, and i'm sure you know where Neo came from.

[Weather1]

Creamsicle Corn named KINK... because of her kinked tail.

Snow Corn is called FLURRY

Creamsicle Corn named SONY

Ball Python named Belle... because she is so Beautiful.

[Emily-Fisher]

<b>Geckos:</b>
My Precious- The name suits him... I mean, look at his colours!
Tafkap- It stands for The Artist Formerly Known As Prince
Smeagol- A name from The Lord of The Rings
Stitch- That little blue guy from the movie Lilo + Stitch
Gimli- The name of the dwarf from The Lord of the Rings. Gimli is very tiny so the name suits him!
Dr. Pepper- The name of a soft drink

<b>Frogs</b>
Ipikii- Dutch for little critter. Ipikii was the smaller than a penny when I bought him!
Michu- Dutch for "Red Eyes"
Kawasaki- The name of a car

<b>Inverts</b>
Herbei- A modified version of Herbie
Cappuccino- A yummy coffee. Cappuccino is the colour of a cappuccino
Kesare- Spanish for long hair (I liked the sound of the name.. :\ )
Elmo- A very scary, irritating puppet. The name is cute though..
Mingus- The last name of a jazz musician
Osiris- The egyptian god of something or rather. (My sister named her)

<b>Snakes</b>
Hamlet- Some evil dude from those Shakespeare plays. (My sister named him too)

[JDouglas]

I only name boas if something pops in my head over and over when I look at the Boa. We recently received an adult hog that has old scars on his face so he is named Scar Face. I have enough snakes that my friends can't remember their names so I just call them what they are. For example, my albino, my Anerythristic, etc. If we have more than one kind of boa I throw in breeder names, sex, and sometimes their birth year like my male 02 Kahl albino, my 03 Clay English albino, my 03 Pythons.net albino, etc.

[lintz69]

First pet was a Ball Python, and I didn't want people to handle a snake named killer, they may have looked at me scared, so I named her peaches the python. Then I got a scorpion and named it Snuggles, then the names just took of:

Peaches the python
Snuggles, and smoochey the scorpions(Emperor)
Bob, and Betsy the boas(Red Tails)
Terry the tarantula(Rosy hair)
Alex the anole
George the green tree frog
fred the firebelly toad
Corny the corn snake.(Just got it today)

[maiden_canada]

thats ok annies mom, i won't get TOO mad

[MouseKilla]

There you go again with the irresistable thread titles Annie's Mom!

We let our daughter name all of ours. She named the first one, a male normal phase corn, Amik. She just made it up. She plagerizes other names and has to be steered away from naming them after here aunts and uncles but she always comes up with something. We have an absolutely evil Eastern King that she named Nightstalker but I occasionally refer to him as Manson.

To me the snakes are becoming less like pets so I tend to talk about them in terms of "the male cal king" or "the female ball". There are just getting to be more names than I can keep straight in my mind.

The cats have names too but I usually call them the "F***ERS" collectively, as in "get out of the plants you little..." or "quit scratching the couch you..." Cats are just a menace.