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[–] dxdydz@slrpnk.net 5 points 10 hours ago

Cheeseweed Flapwort sounds like a hobbit name

[–] Cheeseweed@sh.itjust.works 41 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 27 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

This would be funnier if you hadn't created the account just to post this.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 17 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Cheeseweed@sh.itjust.works 6 points 12 hours ago

I always play the long game.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 8 hours ago

I'm sorry, but "Lavender" is not a good name.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 13 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

How about the classic Wandering Jew?

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 4 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 1 points 4 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 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] moody@lemmings.world 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] groet@feddit.org 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

So are dragonhunter and hellbender ... and screaming armadillo

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] tatann@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

Honestly, Hellbender is badass

Bender would be too

Or even Hell

[–] glorkon@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Sarcastic Fringehead and Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker, go clean your rooms! And stop teasing your little sister Common Cockchafer.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 17 hours ago

Ima go with Cawwwwww

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

My baby will be called Compressed Flapworth and no woke liberal snowflake will stop me!

[–] vrek@programming.dev 4 points 20 hours ago

Do you want to bring them over to have a play date with my sweet virgins creeper?

[–] PineRune@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Cheeseweed would probably be the coolest kid in school, ngl.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 13 hours ago

I was just thinking that it sounds like an insult.

"Of course it was loaded you cheeseweed!"

Don't know why they mock my little Cheeseweed Jr.

[–] TomMasz@piefed.social 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

There really is a screaming hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus vellerosus). The name comes from its squealing when you pick it up.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

That name seems a little weirder in context.

It's like calling a species of wild pig the "Bleeding Black Hog" because of how it reacts to being shot.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 14 hours ago

There is that meme floating around about a salmon learning that named a color after them. I'm sure there are a ton of other examples.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Great, you've made my son cry. Now I'll have to make pancakes in the morning for Tufted Titmouse.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

He just needs a hug from his mother, Great Tit.

[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Good enough for a poke

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Greatest: Boa, A Lizard Bird, Mealybug Destroyer, Raven.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 1 points 16 hours ago

Hawk, Badger