Too many Daves

[Chuffy]

It has come to my attention that there are too many Daves on this forum. The return of Dave5N has tipped the Dave-o-meter into the red. Something Must Be Done.

I therefore propose that all of the various Daves form an orderly line, no pushing or shoving, and pick a new name from this masterpiece by Dr Seuss.

Dave5N will, of course, get first dibs on Soggy Muff.

"Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave
Had twenty-three sons, and she named them all Dave?

Well, she did. And that wasn't a smart thing to do.
You see, when she wants one, and calls out "Yoo-Hoo!
Come into the house, Dave!" she doesn't get one.
All twenty-three Daves of hers come on the run!

This makes things quite difficult at the McCaves'
As you can imagine, with so many Daves.
And often she wishes that, when they were born,
She had named one of them Bodkin Van Horn.
And one of them Hoos-Foos. And one of them Snimm.
And one of them Hot-Shot. And one Sunny Jim.
And one of them Shadrack. And one of them Blinkey.
And one of them Stuffy. And one of them Stinkey.
Another one Putt-Putt. Another one Moon Face.
Another one Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face.
And one of them Ziggy. And one Soggy Muff.
One Buffalo Bill. And one Biffalo Buff.
And one of them Sneepy. And one Weepy Weed.
And one Paris Garters. And one Harris Tweed.
And one of them Sir Michael Carmichael Zutt.
And one of them Oliver Boliver Butt.
And one of them Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate . . . .
But she didn't do it. And now it's too late. "

 

[Crackle]

I often read that to the kids in the evening, although I do prefer The Sneetches, and as a personal challenge always try to get the main verse on one breath

Yeah but can you read all of Fox in Socks without twisting your tongue at least once, especially when you get to the Poodle Paddle Battles in a Bottle, Eating Noodles.

 

[Abitrary]

The dave thing is not a problem if you work in IT, because everyone is called dave.

They just end up with monikers like, big dave, davey P, little dave, hairy dave and scary dave.

 

[Crackle]

Wot about Spotty Dave. Is he off sick - again?

 

[Abitrary]

I once worked with a dave who was called 'short fat and hairy' by... get this... the other daves. He wasn't even a threat to their identity.

 

[ufkacbln]

.........and there are "Closet" Daves as well and "Daves Anonymous" - THe CTC has lots of DA groups!

Good evening....

My name is Cunoblein and I am a reformed Dave!

 

[alecstilleyedye]

it's my middle name

 

[Crackle]

it's my middle name

You can be Stinkey or Sunny Jim then.

 

[rich p]

When I was in junior school, back in the dark ages, we did a survey of the school and the most popular boy and girl names were Stephen and Susan. I don't think Dave became a popular name until you got north of Croydon.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

You can be Stinkey or Sunny Jim then.

i'll take sunny jim, then i've got a kirsty maccoll song dedicated to me

 

[Tetedelacourse]

Chuffy, excellent post. No less than 50% of the forummers I met at Pedal For Scotland were called Dave.

In our IT dept there is also a proliferation of Daves, as Abitrary rightly says. There's a Bald Dave, a Big Dave and just plain Dave (who's unreliable). There's a few Davids too. Strangely there aren't any Daveys though.

Good Dr Seuss work. One Fish Two Fish and Circus McGurkus go down well in our house at bedtime.

 

[Stan]

One Dave could change his name to Rodney

 

[Tetedelacourse]

I wonder if Yenrod's real name is Dave. Hope not.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

I wonder if Yenrod's real name is Dave. Hope not.

you're in luck, it's not.

daves even have their own tv channel too…

 

[magnatom]

Anyone who doesn't know me (who could that be!) tends to think my name is Tom, but I'll fess up.

Hi, I'm magnatom, and my name is Dave.....

Actually I'll answer to Dave, David, oi you, muppet,......