Fri 7 Dec 2007
My blog sponsor “Wilco” and his wife Christi are currently fostering three very cute puppies (or as Wilco sees them, three very cute poo production machines). Christi named the girl “Puck” with the footnote “i know, puck isn’t really a girls name, but don’t tell her that”; and named the two boys “Cujo” and “Marleau.”
I asked Christi where the puppies got their unusual names. She replied, “They are named after my favorite hockey players. Cujo = Curtis Joseph, who played on a handful of teams, but who I will always know and love as a Maple Leaf. Marleau = Patrick Marleau, the beloved captain of the San Jose Sharks. I was trying to pick names that would be universally recognizable, but I guess I failed.”
I don’t think it’s so much that Christi failed, as I’m sure people like Flat Coke & Flies and Bat got the reference right away, but seeing as how I only went to my very first hockey game a couple of weeks ago over Thanksgiving break, and that being also the very first hockey game I’d ever watched, I was thinking “Puck” – a tribute to the playfully mischievous sprite, Puck, in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”; “Cujo” – the antagonist killer dog in Stephen King’s novel by the same name; “Marleau” – a cute French way of spelling the last name of famed early literature genius Christopher Marlowe.
:/
I suppose the money spent on acquiring an English Lit degree at UCLA wasn’t a total waste…
I didn’t get those references either…but had she named them after baseball players, I would have been all over that! 🙂
oh and by the way, that is the coolest thing to be foster parent to puppies!!!! I wish I could
I wouldn’t get the references even if she did name them after baseball players. But LITERARY characters…
They’re fostering really young puppies so you’d have to be home a lot to take care of them.
puck- wolfgang puck
cujo- the dog
marleau – a bad name for girls
Wolfgang Puck! Didn’t think of that one. But you’d be the fine dining connossieur that would. (I probably spelled that wrong.)
I didn’t get the hockey references either lol. I thought Cujo was from a book but I couldn’t remember which until you mentioned it.
I actually thought Puck was in reference to newly married people who had making love on the brain but couldn’t say the “f” word so they just picked one that rhymed!!
Love the hockey reference tho…that’s the coolest thing…except San Jose is one of our biggest rivalries.
How did you like your VIRGIN hockey game? Don’t you love the checking against the boards, the fighting, the blood, TIME OUTS!! How fun!!
James – I think most of my readers don’t appear to be hockey fans. Hmm. Maybe a hockey blogger meet! haha
Flat Coke – Haha, Wilco and Christi aren’t gutter humor people when it comes to naming their foster fuzzies. You got the hockey reference right away, didn’t you?
I enjoyed getting my hockey cherry popped! They played music I liked, TWO fights broke out toward the end, and there were hip checks and cross checks all over the place!