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[–] Cheeseweed@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Cheeseweed@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

I always play the long game.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

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

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

[–] moody@lemmings.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] groet@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So are dragonhunter and hellbender ... and screaming armadillo

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

How about the classic Wandering Jew?

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week 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 3 points 1 week 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]

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] vrek@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] PineRune@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

I was just thinking that it sounds like an insult.

"Of course it was loaded you cheeseweed!"

[–] glorkon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

[–] TomMasz@piefed.social 6 points 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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.

[–] dxdydz@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago

Cheeseweed Flapwort sounds like a hobbit name

Ima go with Cawwwwww

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

Good enough for a poke

[–] tatann@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Honestly, Hellbender is badass

Bender would be too

Or even Hell

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

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

[–] Steve@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago

Hawk, Badger

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

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