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This is a chinchilla. It is small, grey, and friendly. graeae is giving me one, which was the brilliant plan I mentioned the other day. I hadn't planned to really mention it further until it turned out that three people had three different ideas on what it should be named. In desperation, I turn to you.
I told apiphile that I wanted to name it Wentz. She scorned this notion because, basically, the Wentz has a suite at the CDC, and it ain't for swine flu. She did point out that cute, fluffy, liable to chew on anything and unable to clean up their own shit made her think of Bert McCracken.
AND SO THE JOKE BEGAN.
Imagine the tweets about McCracken. About putting McCracken back in his cage. About McCracken shitting in his food tray again. About sleeping with McCracken. About, basically, everything that would make everyone on Twitter think that my apartment is Rock Star Prison Camp. (By the way, that should be a reality show. In my apartment.)
Enter graeae, worried because, and I quote, "Normally when you say great ideas, I try to think of something considerably less cute and more psychotic." She voted for Gerard, on the theory that chinchillas sort of basically look like Gerard.
And now I don't know what to call it. I like both McCracken AND Gerard as names, and both work for this joke. (What I really need here is two chinchillas.) So I ask you all.
Poll Name my pet!
I may not take your votes under advisement! I may, in fact, do whatever the hell I want! But everyone loves a radio button, so.