Once our new kitten came home today, I asked my Facebook-friends for suggestions for a name. That particular, very simple status message (“Name suggestions for a black kitten, please?”) now has well over fifty comments. In alphabetical order, here are most of the names which have been mentioned, so far, in that lengthy conversation. The kitten, by the way, is male.

• Akiko
• Aleister
• Bear
• Bluebird
• Box
• Cantabell
• Chunk
• Cinder
• Coco
• Darwin
• Dark Chocolate Thunder
• Demon
• Dingus
• Doom Kitty
• Eisenhower
• Eris
• Feline X
• Felix
• Flip
• Friday
• Graphite
• Grimm
• Helga
• Helicopter
• Illidan Stormrage the Betrayer
• Inkspot
• Jesus (I’m unclear on which pronunciation of that name was being suggested)
• Jinks
• Jitter
• Jynx
• Licorice
• Lint
• Loudmouth
• Lucky
• Madalyn
• Maleficent
• Marley
• Maurice
• Michael
• Midnight
• Mischief
• Moonbeam
• Mudflap
• Noir
• Obama (to which I replied that, if I ever named a cat after a president, I’d go with “Thomas Jefferson”)
• Obsidian
• Ol’ Scratch
• Olive
• Oliver
• Onyx
• Peter
• Puss
• Pusschief
• Satan
• Shade
• Shadow
• Smudge
• Snowflake
• Spectre
• Squirt
• Sratch (Scratch?)
• Sthylvether
• Sumi
• Thumb
• Tyson
• Waldo

We went with “Jynx,” with “Jynxy” as a nickname. Considering what happened, just a little later (see the post right before this one), that name turned out to be quite appropriate.