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A guide to nature names for your baby (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 day ago by Secret_Music@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] moody@lemmings.world 17 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

I feel like Mother of Thousands is maybe not the best name for a baby.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Shub-Niggurath, The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young, get my vote.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

How about the classic Wandering Jew?

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I grow those! Now I have no idea what the PC name for them is. (Which is weird because the Wandering Jew is basically mythology, nothing against Jews.)

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 10 hours ago

The name has, for good reasons, fallen out of fashion. "Inch plant" is what I've heard recently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_Jew

Various types of plants are called by the common name "wandering Jew", apparently because of these plants' ability to resist gardener's attempt to prevent them from "wandering over the earth until the second coming of Christ" (see Wandering Jew (disambiguation) § Plants). In 2016, to avoid anti-Semitism, the name "wandering dude" to describe Tradescantia has been proposed in an online plant community by Pedram Navid, instead of "Wandering Jew" and "silver inch plant".[83] [84][85][86]

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Well I guess you don't expect your kids to be high achievers...

[–] moody@lemmings.world 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I think that's a title one earns, not one that should be given from birth.

[–] groet@feddit.org 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

So are dragonhunter and hellbender ... and screaming armadillo

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 points 20 hours ago

Yeah that's a title reserved for animal shelter's owner.