"nkh" wrote in
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Just curious how many of you give your goldfish names and, if you do,
what their names are and how you went about choosing names.

Of course. In my younger days I had a series of goldfish with Scottish
names (Angus, Fergus, etc.).

I named one particular group of five ryukins after a British pop group of
the sixties (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich).

For the past eight years we've had Cecil (named after Cecil Vyse in
Forster's "Room with a View") and Chuckie (after a character on
"Rugrats"...not my fault, I let my son name him).

Both these fish were won in school carnivals and for some reason---despite
a too-small tank and years of lacadasical maintenance on my part (which
I've recently corrected after lurking in this newsgroup awhile and
beginning to feel guilty)---they've lasted longer than any other fish we've
had. Just simple feeders, originally, now part of the family for as long as
they'd like to stick around.

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