Name! That! Limpet!

[mrissa]

Forty-third verse, same as the first: still dizzy. Two bits of care package in the mail yesterday from two of you, much appreciated. Other attempts at increasing the supply of cope continue. Imported cope can be expensive.

Elsewhere, papersky informs me that limpets have a sense of directionality -- that if they are detached from their rocks and tumble around and around in the ocean, they mostly reorient themselves in exactly the same way when they find a new rock. So we should get me a Feeling-Ear Limpet (like a Seeing-Eye Dog) until this PT stuff does what it's supposed to.

The only question now is what to name the limpet. akirlu, in the same elsewhere, suggests Incredible Mr. Obviously. This is a good name for a limpet, but I'm interested in hearing other suggestions as well. It's time to...Name! That! Limpet!

Comments

[columbina.livejournal.com]

Since it will be your own personal limpet, I think you should name it Mine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limpet_mine).

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Biotech Gyroscope

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

This Way Up
Claudication (because it's a LIMPet) or possibly
Claudication M Upwards, with the M naturally standing for Mrissa's

[atdt1991.livejournal.com]

Mighty Aright Limpet - AKA Mal.

[poeticalpanther.livejournal.com]

Vertigone.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

I think I'd have to call a limpet "Limpid".

But I do like Vertigone, assuming it's pronounced like Antigone.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

Skippy.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm going to vote for Vertigone of the Antigone Pronunciation.

[mightyjesse.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. "Vertigone Patel" does have a nice ring to it...

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Bob. Bob, the Amazing Limpet of Orientation and Balance!

Or just Bob.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

For some reason, "Go with Snuggles" is striking me like the, "Go in peace," at the end of a church service. Only, y'know. More hands-on.

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

i always like to name a pet Squeak.

[pezwitch.livejournal.com]

Mr. Unagi!

G&S got nothin on me

[greykev.livejournal.com]

Murgatroyd.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

"mrissa, do not eat your Feeling-Ear Limpet with wasabi and soy sauce!" "Mmm...shhhorry!"

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

So limpets tend to land foot-down or a north-facing limpet will face north again? Either one is cool.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

If I had a gravity limpet, I'd use that one.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

Shelbiforce.

[seabream.livejournal.com]

One of my friends from high school actually does a form of that quite often. Her boyfriend's legal middle name (and the one he often goes by) is in fact Snuggles. Sort of a long and very cute story. The shorter version - following a set of events several years prior to the choice, his parents promised him that he could choose his middle name. At the time of the promise, he was quite young.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Uff da!

[pezwitch.livejournal.com]

Now I have anthropomorphized the sad little limpet and am imagining him strapped to a ball of rice with a piece of seaweed, screaming "Noooooo!" as you carry him in slow motion toward your mouth (with ominous music in the background, of course).