BS: Think of a name!!!!'

Subject: Think of a name!!!!'
From: gaelicconquest
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 06:15 PM

Hi Mudcatters,I need your help for a competition that I am in.I need to come up with a good name for a house! Any ideas?

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From: Amergin
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 06:16 PM

Well, what sort of a house is it?

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From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 06:18 PM

Mudcat!

~S~

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From: Morticia
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 06:21 PM

Eric

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From: Bill D
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 06:34 PM

I had a house once named "Withering Heights" it needed some work.

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From: gaelicconquest
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 06:35 PM

It is an ordinary 4 bed town house!

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From: Tedham Porterhouse
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 06:38 PM

Tedham Porter(house)

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From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 06:48 PM

We wanted to call ours the house of green ginger wine... but it wouldn't fit on the moulded brick in the bay window.....

Y Castell Ddraig is the next best thing, the Dragon's castle..... but don't trust my spelling....

LTS

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From: JedMarum
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 07:00 PM

My grew up in a home called, "Lilac Acres" - a beautiful old rambling house on 6 acres in Southboro, MA. Great name for a house, but don't suspect that'd be appropriate for your use. Still, maybe something along those lines???

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From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 07:03 PM

Buford

Spaw

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From: Matt_R
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 07:09 PM

This Damn House.

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From: sophocleese
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 07:12 PM

Margaret? Lark's Lair? Tintagel? Esther's House of Curious and Fantastic Delights?

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From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 07:19 PM

Hortense

Spaw

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From: Amergin
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 07:19 PM

Ok, then, I think Nathan Tompkins would fit that house perfectly then....

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From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 07:43 PM

Passing Wind

Spaw

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From: Philibuster
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 07:46 PM

House Of The Rising Sun.

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From: Jon Freeman
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 07:52 PM

Ty Dref

Jon

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From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 08:10 PM

High Colonic

Spaw

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From: Giac
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 08:23 PM

Bubba

Bowser

Old Paint

Stoned Hinges

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From: Sorcha
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 08:42 PM

Abandon Hope
"(insert name)"s Hash and Halfway House

My wine label is "Abandon Hope", my house name is "Mother Mary's Hash and Half Way House".....interpret Hash however you like!

I also like "Sinking Slowly"

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From: Justa Picker
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 08:50 PM

Sorch, you're malarious! :-)

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From: Sorcha
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 09:09 PM

MOI?? MOI?? Malarious?? Mon, I'm serious here!!
"Abandon Hope, all ye who enter here"....Milton, the sign above the gates of Hell.....

"Hash and Crash" (board and bed) provided for all who need it, and have abandoned hope.........we always have one extra per nite, sometimes several more. Often, I don't know about the Several More........but I LOVE

House Malarious......might just use that one!

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From: poor lonesome boy
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 10:31 PM

Dunn Roman

(credit to Kurt Vonneget Jr... I think)

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From: CarolC
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 11:13 PM

Trespassers W?

Under the name of Saunders?

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From: Matt_R
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 11:16 PM

Mr.House.

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From: thosp
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 11:25 PM

or Mrs.House

peace (Y) thosp

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From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 11:27 PM

4 beds in a square

Townz Van Houz

Conquest Won

Gaelic Solace

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From: Matt_R
Date: 15 Apr 01 - 11:49 PM

Funky Pad

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From: Bert
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 12:01 AM

Madhouse
Mudhouse
Casper House
home.html
/usr/home

Tell us more about it. What kind of house?

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From: Matt_R
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 12:08 AM

www.getthehelloffamylawn.com

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From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 12:23 AM

The Manor Borne on my Back

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From: Lyrical Lady
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 12:42 AM

Wathla...Culzean .... both Scottish ... don't know what they mean. RandomRose....Callitwatchawanna..... El Rancho Nogotto ...Hardscrabble ....Windover.......Helluva House ..... Glen Echo ...

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From: GUEST,Crazy Eddie
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 04:56 AM

Dun Roamin, Dun Time, Dun Murder, Esuoh Etihs, Merdeville, Poison Ivy, Curare Lodge, Richville, Poorville, Brokeville, The Oprah House, The Lair, Ifreann(=Hell in Irish, Sp?), Transylvenia Lodge, Amytyvilla, Batville,

Best of Luck, Eddie

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From: sledge
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 05:25 AM

A bit of a gaff

The money pit

8)

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From: okthen
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 05:31 AM

Chateaux Blotto

cheers

bill

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From: Micca
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 05:51 AM

Or then there is Caisteal Liatach (the Grey Castle in Gaelic)
or Dingly dell(or even Dangly dell)
or Llaregub (Dylan Thomas ,Under Milk wood, for the full flavour read backwards)
Sorcha my brother Frank called his home made Red wine "Franques Plonque" in asuitable baroque script on the label, and the white was called "Nickerlausener"...

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From: GUEST,Crazy Eddie
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 06:11 AM

And of course, <>..........."Medication Time, Medication Time"

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From: GUEST,Crazy Eddie
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 07:48 AM

The actual name "The Cuckoo's Nest" disappeared from my last post........... Something to do with the brackets methinks....

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From: LR Mole
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 10:53 AM

Hardtime Kilnhouse? Dublin Down? Crisis Nice? Front Portulaca? DownInfront?

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From: mousethief
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 11:07 AM

What street is it on? What's the name of the neighborhood? What colour is it? What prominent geographical features are in the neighborhood?

The only home I ever named was the apartment I moved into after my first wife and I separated. I called it "St. Ninian's" because that's the home of the character "Mousethief" (he's a church mouse) in the book in which he appears (Mossflower).

ALex

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From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 11:12 AM

Winchester Mk.II

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From: mousethief
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 11:13 AM

Matt, are you sure that isn't a rifle?

Alex

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From: GUEST
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 11:15 AM

The Pantsless platypus

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From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 11:19 AM

"Number 92" - or whatever. Who needs a name?

Names on houses in towns never seem right to me. And if they just have names, and no numbers, they are a real pain to identify - you have to go right up to the door and get growled at by the family dog. Or in some cases shot at by the family psychopath, I gather. And it's never the right house anyway.

Live there awhile, and the number takes on a new meaning - there are some numbers that, if I close my eyes, I can still see the place years later.)

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From: Bill D
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 11:19 AM

"Abandon Hope, all ye who enter here"....Milton, the sign above the gates of Hell.....

ummmm...no, Sorcha...Dante!, The Inferno, Canto III, line 10....(it's posted on the door to my workshop)

"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate. "

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From: gnu
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 11:24 AM

No Soliciting.

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From: MMario
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 11:30 AM

I dunno - names for houses seems okay to me, gives something to refer to. My parent's house was nameless for years - but has since become "The Bighouse" - My Grandmother's house was and is "By-a-brook" - My sister's property is "Bear Haven"

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From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 11:40 AM

Number 9 number 9 number 9 number 9 number 9 number 9

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From: Bernard
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 11:55 AM

How about 'Forum Home' - four (bed)room home!!

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From: Firecat
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 12:17 PM

House of Fun (after the Madness song!! "Welcome to the House Of Fun...")

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From: ChaosCat
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 02:05 PM

I think it's nice to have a moniker for the place one dwells, sometimes silly, sometimes charming... we call my loft apartment "The Haven", and it seems to really have grown into it.
How about Groove Palace?

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From: GUEST
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 02:50 PM

Ritz Carlton

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From: Ruthie A
Date: 17 Apr 01 - 01:53 PM

This has nothing to do with housenames (sorry), just asking... mousethief!!! have you actually read all the Redwall books too? I discovered them when I was eight and have been addicted to them since. However much I interrogated friends/foes/random people in libraries, I couldn't find somebody else who'd read them and enjoyed them. Wow! My life's purpose is fulfilled now.

ANYWAY, I think the house should be called Fluffy, for the simply reason that it most probably isn't.

Ruthie

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From: mousethief
Date: 17 Apr 01 - 02:01 PM

Ruthie! Actually the last one I read was Pearls of Lutra. I kind of gave up about 40 pages into The Long Patrol and haven't read or re-read any since.

Mossflower is my absolute fave, and Gonff is my absolute favorite character.

Alex

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From: lady penelope
Date: 17 Apr 01 - 02:03 PM

Gael force ?

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From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 17 Apr 01 - 02:23 PM

Gael Force has been done, and even they changed it because it was too cheesy... Almost as bad as Celtic Cross...

How about Windswept & Interesting?

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From: lady penelope
Date: 17 Apr 01 - 08:32 PM

Alternitively you could choose the name by taking your first pets' name and your nearest land mark. Ours would be SnowBall Cross. Just a thought.

TTFN M'Lady P.

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From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 18 Apr 01 - 04:57 AM

Herself thinks when we stop working in libraries we should call our house Dunlendin. The neighbours are probably hoping for Dunsingin.
RtS

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From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 18 Apr 01 - 06:26 AM

Pets name and nearest landmark??? Ours would be F!"£ing stupid animal fire station! Doesn't work somehow....

I'm not sure about naming houses unless their is a reason to do so. I have already seen too many 1970's little boxes called Rivendell!

If you must have a name hows about something completely stupid like Fobeth (FOur BEdroomed Town House) - it's novel and possibly the kind of silly thing competition organisers like - particularly if it is for marketing purposes.

Have fun anyway

Dave the Gnome

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From: Bernard
Date: 18 Apr 01 - 06:39 AM

Mine would be 'Lard Town Hall'

Apparently when I trip over the cat I call it 'Cooking Fat'...

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From: Mr Red
Date: 18 Apr 01 - 07:12 PM

I called my house in Malvern (UK) "Isle of Dew"
got divorced in it so it turned out to be prophetic, or was I tempting fate?
(phonetic wordplay)
Another house in Melbourne Close, in an area called Little Australia was dubbed "Inn Victoria". Vicki was amused - just.

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From: CRANKY YANKEE
Date: 18 Apr 01 - 09:52 PM

My Next Boat

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From: GUEST,2feathers
Date: 18 Apr 01 - 10:02 PM

A house is not a home. A house can be a thief; whenever you think you've fixed everything, something else pops up. My motherinlaw always said, A house is a "gonuf." (thief) But that's a sad name for a new house. "Loving Arms"? "Peaceful Haven" "Home for Good"