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June 28, 2011 10:36 AM Subscribe
Help me think of fictional characters called Lady Something-or-Other to call our new chicken!
My husband and I like to name our pets after fictional characters. We also like to give them titles. One of our lovely Pekin bantams died a few weeks ago, and we now need to think of a name for our new young chicken. (Actually we have two, but one might be a boy, so we're calling him/her Bob until we know one way or another.) We quite like Lady Chatterley, but something about it isn't quite working for me - can you think of any others? It would be nice to have a pool of possible names for any future chickens.
Just one thing - they must also have a first name, as that's what they'll end up being called the most. A slightly old-fashioned and, if possible, distinguished-sounding first name would be ideal.
Big thanks for any ideas you might have!!
My husband and I like to name our pets after fictional characters. We also like to give them titles. One of our lovely Pekin bantams died a few weeks ago, and we now need to think of a name for our new young chicken. (Actually we have two, but one might be a boy, so we're calling him/her Bob until we know one way or another.) We quite like Lady Chatterley, but something about it isn't quite working for me - can you think of any others? It would be nice to have a pool of possible names for any future chickens.
Just one thing - they must also have a first name, as that's what they'll end up being called the most. A slightly old-fashioned and, if possible, distinguished-sounding first name would be ideal.
Big thanks for any ideas you might have!!
Lady Honoria Dedlock (Bleak House)
Lady Elaine Fairchild (Mr. Rogers)
posted by xingcat at 10:43 AM on June 28, 2011
Lady Elaine Fairchild (Mr. Rogers)
posted by xingcat at 10:43 AM on June 28, 2011
Not strictly a Lady, but a sophisticated female character: I have a rabbit named Margot Tennenbaum (The Rabbit) and I wouldn't be mad if you wanted to use Margot Tennenbaum (The Chicken).
My male rabbit's full title is Baron von Floppy Ears, The World's Most Outstanding Rabbit.
posted by drjimmy11 at 10:44 AM on June 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
My male rabbit's full title is Baron von Floppy Ears, The World's Most Outstanding Rabbit.
posted by drjimmy11 at 10:44 AM on June 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward (Thunderbirds)
posted by Dragonness at 10:45 AM on June 28, 2011
posted by Dragonness at 10:45 AM on June 28, 2011
There's also Lady Brett Ashley from "The Sun Also Rises."
posted by drjimmy11 at 10:45 AM on June 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by drjimmy11 at 10:45 AM on June 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
Princess Consuela Banana Hammock
posted by TooFewShoes at 10:45 AM on June 28, 2011 [3 favorites]
posted by TooFewShoes at 10:45 AM on June 28, 2011 [3 favorites]
Lady Kluck from Disney's Robin Hood is a lady AND a chicken.
posted by amyms at 10:47 AM on June 28, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by amyms at 10:47 AM on June 28, 2011 [2 favorites]
I'm a big fan of Trollope: Lady Glencora McCluskey (aka Lady Glencora Palliser), Lady Violet Chiltern, Lady Mabel Grex, Lady Hermione Clavering
Though you can't top Austen's Lady Catherine DeBourgh
Or maybe Lady Elaine Fairchild?
posted by Mchelly at 10:49 AM on June 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
Though you can't top Austen's Lady Catherine DeBourgh
Or maybe Lady Elaine Fairchild?
posted by Mchelly at 10:49 AM on June 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
Lady of Shallot
posted by Net Prophet at 10:50 AM on June 28, 2011
posted by Net Prophet at 10:50 AM on June 28, 2011
Lady Augusta Bracknell from The Importance of Being Earnest. Sounds just about right for a bantam hen!
posted by ourobouros at 10:55 AM on June 28, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by ourobouros at 10:55 AM on June 28, 2011 [2 favorites]
Not officially a Lady Something, but Don Quioxte renamed the simple peasant girl he had a crush on with the more noble Dulcinea del Toboso.
posted by chatongriffes at 10:57 AM on June 28, 2011
posted by chatongriffes at 10:57 AM on June 28, 2011
Oh come on. No Lady Gaga yet?
posted by madmethods at 10:57 AM on June 28, 2011
posted by madmethods at 10:57 AM on June 28, 2011
Lady of Shallot
I would worry that that would make a chicken nervous. Kind of like calling her Countess de Mirepoix or something.
posted by madmethods at 10:58 AM on June 28, 2011 [5 favorites]
I would worry that that would make a chicken nervous. Kind of like calling her Countess de Mirepoix or something.
posted by madmethods at 10:58 AM on June 28, 2011 [5 favorites]
I had a chicken named Lady Gaga (she sounded just like her). R.I.P., Lady Gaga chicken.
posted by bolognius maximus at 11:02 AM on June 28, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by bolognius maximus at 11:02 AM on June 28, 2011 [2 favorites]
Lady Chatterley's Ex-Lover
posted by thatguyjeff at 11:02 AM on June 28, 2011
posted by thatguyjeff at 11:02 AM on June 28, 2011
Response by poster: ourobouros - it is exactly right for a bantam hen. So exactly right that one of our two big girls is called just that! :o)
Mchelly - we've already settled on Lady CdeB for Bob if he/she turns out to be a girl - it's a great name.
Sys Rq - Lady Glossop has also been in the running for a while (our other big girl is called Aunt Agatha, Lady Worplesdon).
Thanks for all the great ideas so far - keep them coming!!
(Also - she is a silver partridge colour, if that gives you any extra inspiration...!)
posted by raspberry-ripple at 11:05 AM on June 28, 2011
Mchelly - we've already settled on Lady CdeB for Bob if he/she turns out to be a girl - it's a great name.
Sys Rq - Lady Glossop has also been in the running for a while (our other big girl is called Aunt Agatha, Lady Worplesdon).
Thanks for all the great ideas so far - keep them coming!!
(Also - she is a silver partridge colour, if that gives you any extra inspiration...!)
posted by raspberry-ripple at 11:05 AM on June 28, 2011
Lady Mondegreen.
posted by Naberius at 11:08 AM on June 28, 2011 [7 favorites]
posted by Naberius at 11:08 AM on June 28, 2011 [7 favorites]
How about Lady MacBeth? Or Lady Bertram, from Mansfield Park?
posted by ashirys at 11:19 AM on June 28, 2011
posted by ashirys at 11:19 AM on June 28, 2011
(not fictional but definitely old fashioned and definitely works with a silver hen!)
posted by amicamentis at 11:31 AM on June 28, 2011
posted by amicamentis at 11:31 AM on June 28, 2011
To go with Lady Augusta Bracknell, how about Lady Margaret Windermere (also from an Oscar Wilde play, Lady Windermere's Fan.)
There's also Lady Rowena from Ivanhoe, although I don't think she's given a surname.
posted by dlugoczaj at 11:32 AM on June 28, 2011 [2 favorites]
There's also Lady Rowena from Ivanhoe, although I don't think she's given a surname.
posted by dlugoczaj at 11:32 AM on June 28, 2011 [2 favorites]
I call my girlfriend Lady CaCa. Would Lady Caw-Caw be appropriate?
posted by kookywon at 11:34 AM on June 28, 2011
posted by kookywon at 11:34 AM on June 28, 2011
Lady Windermere's Fowl.
posted by LuckySeven~ at 11:35 AM on June 28, 2011
posted by LuckySeven~ at 11:35 AM on June 28, 2011
She's not fictional, but Lady Murasaki has a nice ring to it.
posted by jeffmshaw at 11:38 AM on June 28, 2011
posted by jeffmshaw at 11:38 AM on June 28, 2011
I thought of Lady Fingers, after the cookies. But some wag might start calling her Lady Chicken Fingers, and you wouldn't want that.
posted by Net Prophet at 11:38 AM on June 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Net Prophet at 11:38 AM on June 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
Lady Baden-Baden. Canadian babies of the Eighties will know what I'm talkin' about.
posted by hip_plumber at 11:43 AM on June 28, 2011
posted by hip_plumber at 11:43 AM on June 28, 2011
Raid Firbank: Lady Parvula de Panzoust, Lady Something; looking through google books a Lady Luckcock is also mentioned briefly in one of the novels. Not sure how a hen would feel about that last name.
posted by villanelles at dawn at 11:48 AM on June 28, 2011
posted by villanelles at dawn at 11:48 AM on June 28, 2011
Has anyone mentioned any of Saki's Ladies?
Lady Carlotta and Lady Bastable come to mind.
posted by Tchad at 11:52 AM on June 28, 2011
Lady Carlotta and Lady Bastable come to mind.
posted by Tchad at 11:52 AM on June 28, 2011
Lady Circumference if she's fat, Lady Marchmain if religious, both from Waugh. Lady Fuchsia Groan from Gormenghast.
posted by villanelles at dawn at 12:05 PM on June 28, 2011
posted by villanelles at dawn at 12:05 PM on June 28, 2011
Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Even if it doesn't compare to Rosings, she'll condescend to peck around your very small park.
posted by apparently at 12:17 PM on June 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by apparently at 12:17 PM on June 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
Uh...Lady Foot Locker?
posted by Elly Vortex at 12:58 PM on June 28, 2011 [5 favorites]
posted by Elly Vortex at 12:58 PM on June 28, 2011 [5 favorites]
Lady Gargantua Featherbottom
posted by kkokkodalk at 2:53 PM on June 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by kkokkodalk at 2:53 PM on June 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
To explain the above as a serious answer taking the OP's consideration's in mind and not just an excuse to give the chicken a name that vaguely sounds like "big feather butt": it's a bit of a cheat, since I'm borrowing just the Gargantua from Gargantua and Pantagruel. Don't know if there's some fictional character named "Featherbottom"...there might be.
posted by kkokkodalk at 2:59 PM on June 28, 2011
posted by kkokkodalk at 2:59 PM on June 28, 2011
Lady Godiva
Lady Marmalade
Lady Luck
Lady Speed Stick
Lady Bug
Lay lady lay
Lady Antebellum
Lady Bird Johnson
Lady Liberty
posted by coolsara at 3:04 PM on June 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
Lady Marmalade
Lady Luck
Lady Speed Stick
Lady Bug
Lay lady lay
Lady Antebellum
Lady Bird Johnson
Lady Liberty
posted by coolsara at 3:04 PM on June 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
Don't know if there's some fictional character named "Featherbottom"...there might be.
Weird. I'd assumed it was a reference to this episode from Gargantua and Pantagruel: But, to conclude, I say and maintain, that of all torcheculs, arsewisps, bumfodders, tail-napkins, bunghole cleansers, and wipe-breeches, there is none in the world comparable to the neck of a goose, that is well downed, if you hold her head betwixt your legs.
posted by villanelles at dawn at 3:27 PM on June 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
Weird. I'd assumed it was a reference to this episode from Gargantua and Pantagruel: But, to conclude, I say and maintain, that of all torcheculs, arsewisps, bumfodders, tail-napkins, bunghole cleansers, and wipe-breeches, there is none in the world comparable to the neck of a goose, that is well downed, if you hold her head betwixt your legs.
posted by villanelles at dawn at 3:27 PM on June 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
Weird. I'd assumed it was a reference to this episode from Gargantua and Pantagruel:
Ha, well, that is a pretty uncanny coincidence that wasn't in my mind when I made the suggestion (it's been a while since I've read it). I was mostly enamored with idea of naming a chicken with a name referencing a highly scatalogical work of literature.
posted by kkokkodalk at 4:09 PM on June 28, 2011
Ha, well, that is a pretty uncanny coincidence that wasn't in my mind when I made the suggestion (it's been a while since I've read it). I was mostly enamored with idea of naming a chicken with a name referencing a highly scatalogical work of literature.
posted by kkokkodalk at 4:09 PM on June 28, 2011
Lady Amherst is a beautiful Asian pheasant but since chickens are a member of the same order, and some breeds can be quite beautiful, I think there's no insult to any party here.
posted by Quietgal at 5:40 PM on June 28, 2011
posted by Quietgal at 5:40 PM on June 28, 2011
Baroness Margaret Thatcher.
posted by equivocator at 7:25 PM on June 28, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by equivocator at 7:25 PM on June 28, 2011 [2 favorites]
Lady Sybil Vimes from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. Her full name is actually Lady Sybil Deidre Olgivanna Vimes (née Ramkin), Duchess of Ankh
posted by MelanieL at 7:47 PM on June 29, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by MelanieL at 7:47 PM on June 29, 2011 [1 favorite]
Not fictional, but Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: "And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last."
posted by The corpse in the library at 10:08 AM on June 30, 2011
posted by The corpse in the library at 10:08 AM on June 30, 2011
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posted by MonkeyToes at 10:41 AM on June 28, 2011 [2 favorites]