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Thinking of naming one dog Olive, what might pair well? Looking for Milo and Otis vibes.

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[โ€“] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 77 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[โ€“] Eranziel@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Came here for this, thank you for your service.

[โ€“] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Also Brutus

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[โ€“] Sertou@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] MissJinx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh yeah, he spend the last 12 years undercover in the shelter

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[โ€“] girl@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[โ€“] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] roguetrick@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

That's just really funny to me to make a diminutive out of a diminutive. Martini already means Marty. Both Martinez and Martin, which they are respectfully diminutives of come from the Latin Martinus for a child dedicated to the god Mars.

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[โ€“] archonet@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] scops@reddthat.com 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[โ€“] radix@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Olive and Pickle sound like crude bathroom signs.

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[โ€“] detalferous@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Martini.

I was going to say Yiu, as in "Olive you" (I love you), but "you" comes up way to much in regular language, would confuse the poor dog.

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[โ€“] Boisterous@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] Godric@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Garden is a good dog's name

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[โ€“] jasondj@ttrpg.network 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Martini. Marti for short, which has the benefit of being ungendered.

[โ€“] Synthead@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] nerdschleife@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I'm losing it in the hospital corridor lmao

[โ€“] tdot@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Caper

Pimento

Prosciutto

Oyster

Scallop

[โ€“] Okkai@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My wife and I have an Australian shepard named Olive. We've already committed to getting a mini and naming it caper

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[โ€“] Poggervania@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

You could do Olive and Ollie for that sweet alliteration.

Alternatively, Olive and Chives is pretty good too.

[โ€“] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] fubo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Hugh.

As in "Olive, Hugh!"

Explaining the joke"all of you" or "I love you"

[โ€“] lettruthout@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[โ€“] vox@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago
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[โ€“] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

I had a great-aunt named Olive whose husband's name was Ham (short for Hamilton).

Always known as Ham and Olive.

[โ€“] oo1@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] Vampire@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] prex@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] JCPhoenix@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Anything Popeye related.

[โ€“] Num10ck@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Eya Newton John.

[โ€“] kornalius@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] dom@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Onion or pickle

[โ€“] Bwaz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[โ€“] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] kambusha@feddit.ch 3 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] orangeNgreen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] argo_yamato@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago
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