Thread: Names

hehe names...

Well.. my first choice of a name was turned down by my wife
I do a fair amount of track days, which is where you get to drive you car as fast as you want on a race track. Be it Silverstone, Brands Hatch etc.. There is a pretty famous circuit in Germany called the Nurburgring, which is in an area called, unsurprisingly 'Nurburg'. Ive been there, loads of fun, but anyway....
I wanted to call him a manly name, something which said 'big' 'powerful' yet retained a but of fun in it too.
So I went for 'Furberg". Sounds a bit like Nurburg, got the fun in it with "fur" and it also has a bit of 'berg' in it. Like iceberg for 'big'.
But the campaign of hate against it was so great from my better half that I was left looking for another name. Given how close these are to the Norweigan Forest Cats I thought it would be appropriate to choose something along those lines, although Sue had already picked one norweigan name which was to be VERY appropriate

I ended up sticking two norweigan words together.
"Stor" which apparently means 'big' 'excellent' 'great' 'large'
and
"Venn" which means 'friend'.
My dodgy translation would work out to be: Big Great Friend.

Sue went for Loki, the norse god of mischief. Seemed like an apt name at the time even though we hadnt yet met 'Loki' It wasnt until the breeder 'warned' us about how mischievious she was that the full meaning of "LokI" finally settled in.


ps: Metallicoon. Definately a good one :D