Pet Name Origins

whitesandy · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2004 5:22 pm

Shoyru's origin is probably from the Japanese language. Japanese for a young dragon is Shoryu. Well if u mess Shoyru and Shoryu up a little the pronunciation is still the same. Hope this helps

Kostya · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2004 11:08 pm

Bruce: Back in the olden days, Bruces used to be a photo of Bruce Forsyth. (biography, pictures)

Shoyru: Just a petname of the creator of the image.

Cybunny: One day before the Cybunny was released, a file called "cutebunny.gif" was uploaded to the Neopets servers. cy = cute & bunny = bunny

Poogle: Comes from the word Poodle

May · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2004 1:27 am

I remember reading (I think in an editorial in the NT) that Flotsam and Jetsam come from a title of a chapter of LOTR. This makes sense knowing some of the people who work at Neopets are big LOTR fans.

EDIT: "Flotsam and Jetsam" is the title of chapter 9 from The Two Towers.

jakecubee · **Posts:** 257 **Joined:** Fri Sep 10, 2004 9:30 am

for mynci if any one saw return of the pink panther professor cleustoe (sp?) pronounces monkey minky. just change the k into a c and you have mynci. and yeah i remember that editorial about jetsam and flotsam also. the gelert there used to be a link but i forgot what it was about the story of the courages dog. it is a long story so i found a link here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/history/sites/myths-customs/pages/myth-gelert.shtml if you want to read the story also krawk_crocidile blumaroo-kangaroo korbat-bat scortchio-dragon scorthes you with his firey breath

ProfessorRemusMoonyLupin · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2004 4:54 am

robert2100 wrote:

Kiko: I'm sure I read somewhere Kiko is a type of mountain goat, but not positive about that o_O

Kiko is from kikkoman, a brand of condiments(at least that's what we have from that brand) they said so themselves.

mayanspypilot wrote:

I remember reading (I think in an editorial in the NT) that Flotsam and Jetsam come from a title of a chapter of LOTR. This makes sense knowing some of the people who work at Neopets are big LOTR fans.

It's from 'The Hobbit' actually.

Drake is a word used for a dragon. There's a dragon called a Firedrake. Beowulf fought one.
I have a book of Celtic myths with the Gelert story in it, it's so saaad!!! :cry:

knighthawk · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2004 5:56 am

Chia: Chia pet of course! The old one's kinda looked like chias. The old chia pets I mean. They looked like chias. Chia neopets. Well, they're both pets so I guess they look like each other and... Wow. i'm confused.

Nani · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2004 5:33 pm

mayanspypilot wrote:

I remember reading (I think in an editorial in the NT) that Flotsam and Jetsam come from a title of a chapter of LOTR. This makes sense knowing some of the people who work at Neopets are big LOTR fans.

EDIT: "Flotsam and Jetsam" is the title of chapter 9 from The Two Towers.

I thought they were just from the words Flotsam and Jetsam, which I think mean rubbish floating at sea. But it might not be a coincidence that there's a chapter in LOTR with the same title.

C_Lady · **Posts:** 46 **Joined:** Sat Sep 11, 2004 3:06 pm

I can't believe no one got the reference to the Little Mermaid. lol Flotsam and Jetsam were Ursula's pet eels.

KiLRoY · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2004 7:02 pm

Their is also a band called Flotsam and Jetsam, actually the Bassist Jason Newsted was with them for a short while.. very short I guess.. but they're not too bad if you like metal

Weewoo · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2004 7:17 pm

jakecubee wrote:

for mynci if any one saw return of the pink panther professor cleustoe (sp?) pronounces monkey minky. just change the k into a c and you have mynci.

Actually, Mynci is Welsh for Monkey.

untouchable dragon · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2004 7:36 pm

hm.... funny, never thaught about this!! cool idea, I hope you find more!

Articfox · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:14 pm

Flotsam and Jetsam is just drift wood and other junk that washes up on shore from the ocean.

ProfessorRemusMoonyLupin · **Posted:** Fri Dec 03, 2004 5:45 am

Up on the ppt front page, I saw a 'Did you know' that said that the wocky and jubjub both got their names from the poem 'Jabberwocky'

It would be cool to do this same thing with the petpets. ^^

Nani · **Posted:** Fri Dec 03, 2004 5:33 pm

ProfessorRemusMoonyLupin wrote:

Up on the ppt front page, I saw a 'Did you know' that said that the wocky and jubjub both got their names from the poem 'Jabberwocky'

It would be cool to do this same thing with the petpets. ^^

How recetly did you see that? I figured it out a few weeks ago while reading Jabberwocky in English class. Oddly, I noticed JubJub first, then Wocky about 10 miniutes later.

LunaSoma · **Posted:** Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:24 pm

I just read jaberwocky for my Childrens Literature class, and when i saw jub jub i got all excited. Yeah im a dork :p

Not sure if this has been suggested yet, but chia could stem from the chia pets, since theyve been around forever. Not really a literary or scientific reference, but they dont all have to be

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