2007-01-12

We had picked out a name for the puppy, actually. Since the three of us had gotten all hooked on Battlestar Galactica, we thought it would be pretty cool to name the puppy Gaius, after our favorite character. Or, it could also be a reference to one of my favorite dictators.

Well, when we got the little guy, we discovered that the name just didn't work. Not so much because we'd fallen out of love for the name, just that the little guy didn't look like a Gaius. Sherry thought he looked like a "Toby". Jacob was set on the name "Mr. Pugglesworth", in reference to Dr. Evil's cat. And I wanted to call him Chopper, in reference to the grizzly Eric Bana film of the same name. Or maybe in reference to the book Cujo, that being Cujo's original name.

In any case, I clearly wasn't going to get any takers on my name, so I let it drop. I was warming up to the name Toby when I noticed somethign that should have been more obvious, but for some reason wasn't: Toby was a first name, and Mr. Pugglesworth was a last name. So our compromise was to give the puppy the full name of Toby Pugglesworth.

A younger, more cynical version of me would probably have vomited a bit in his mouth to know that in the future, he would not only have a dog named "Toby Pugglesworth", but would think it's a really good name.