Which Black Sabbath vocalist should I name my new hamster after?

Oodizzy

Yidoozz

Diozzoy

Ian

Fenholt

Ronnie James Hampsto!

Blabbath

Hamster Salad

Why is your hamster stood on a hockey puck? What happened directly after this photo was taken?

Technical Petstasy

Call him Gillan.

Seriously? I'd call him Geezer. That's an awesome name for a hamster.

Geezer Hamster

And you can just call him Geez when you're drunk.

What if I don't drink?

I don't know what he's standing on, I think it's an upturned food bowl. The breeder took the picture.

I don't drink. I was just offering a potential scenario. I still think it's a good name for a Hamster. Much better than Biff Byford for example.

I gotta cosign Doran's points re: Geez.

Hamsters have breeders? Hamsters need help breeding? They are unique in the rodent kingdom if this is true.

The idea of a hamster named Tony Martin amuses me greatly.

Congrats on the new ham, J3ff!
My family had an unusually stupid ostrich named Ozzy, it died getting eaten by dogs, so I think of it as an unlucky pet/animal name.

Voted for Dio, but like the Geezer idea better.

Ronnie James would be kind of a fun pet name. Who's that? Oh that's my hamster RONNIEJAMES

i have met a hamster named ozzy. i have never met a hamster named dio.

so dio

Ronnie James would be kind of a fun pet name. Who's that? Oh that's my hamster RONNIEJAMES

<3 this

Write-in for Tony Martin.

We had a curly shaggy blonde medium-sized mutt. When people would ask what breed she was, I'd say, "She's a Bon Scott terrier."

dio, but only if you always refer to him as "ronnie james" or "ronnie james dio"

why not just get two hamsters?

Dio, but it can only be referred to as "Ronnie James Dio", otherwise all bets are off.

Gotta go with the Geezer write in vote.

Glenn.

Hamsterdamned

Hampsta Cadabra

hamsternaut

Hammy Blade.

Call it Horsey.

Another vote for Tony "The Cat" Martin, but you have to go for Dio, or maybe Padanova for the cognoscenti.

dang, pillbox got "hamsternaut"

ham leaf

now in darkness wheel stops turning

Falling off the edge of the hamster wheel

I want to reach out
And chew some seeds

Hamster of Reality

Cedar Bloody Cedar

They say that life's a carousel
Spinning fast, you've got to ride it well

Wood chews of the universe
A love that never dies
YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Doing laps on the Wheel of Confusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GouLP2GE1M8

I'm going through cage-e-e-ehs

a habitrail acrobat
hole in the salt lick
hand of doom

lol at hand of doom

Ham Blackster

Dió means "nut" or "walnut" in Hungarian, which is kind of cute for a rodent, I think.

was joe lynn turner ever black sabbath's vocalist? seems like he should have been.

anyway you should name your hamster joe lynn turner

name your gecko either joe lynn turner or graham bonnett.

graham bonnet wore sunglasses a lot and joe lynn turner is like a new yawk type dude i think but i get them confused

Planet Hamstervan

N.I.B.B.L.E.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

After Forever, or at Least Until I'm Done Nibbling

Hammy Hambourne

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Wow. That is about 36 more votes than I expected.

a tremendous victory for J3ff T's new hamster, Ronnie James Dio.

hamsters are dicks tho, imo

nothing against ronny james dio or anything

NWOBHAM

Ha ha ha. Amazing.

welcome to your new home ronniejames. your fans demand pix

Thanks for your input, guys. That is, indeed, a pretty crazy amount of responses. I will share pictures as soon as he is in my care on Saturday.

Also – hamsters are awesome. My last hamster, Lemmy, was a total bro. That's why I'm getting this one from a breeder. Hamsters don't really have any trouble breeding, obviously, but the breeders breed them for cuteness and personality. And, of course, metal cred.

How do you tell if he's a post Julien Donkey Boy, VICE reading hipster, SunnO))) merch collecting Nigel hamster or Manowar rinsing True Metal rodent?

http://www.craftster.org/pictures/data/500/medium/80480_15Jan11_spg_screen_shot.jpg

No hamster of mine will be false.

A righteous result.

I will share pictures as soon as he is in my care on Saturday.

LIAR

He is currently in the "terrified of everything" phase, so I haven't really been able to grab a good photo yet.

Dio of course means "god" in Italian, though Ronnie said he got the name from a Florida mafia guy named Johnny Dio. There happens to be a brief appearance of a Johnny Dio in Scarface. Just don't name it after Born Again vocalist Ian...

Playing "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath on Tesla coils with a shielded guitar, standing in a Faraday suit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPoomwdNZeY

Oh yeah, I said I was going to post photos in here. Well, here's a photo of the little evil, divine critter:

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Hamster and Hell

^^^^^ THIS

Alas! Sad news on FB from J3ff that Dio has passed on, the poor little critter. May he rock out with Dio himself forever more.

:( sorry to hear about your loss jeff.

2-3 years is short enough for a lifespan, sorry to see this cute little guy didn't make a year.

This thread must have been in the back of my mind when we adopted a 3 year-old cat (20 lbs no less) and named him Ozzy. The prince of darkness is doing well, slowly losing weight.

RIP ;_;

awww, sad to hear this :-(

Thanks for the kind words, guys. I should be obtaining a new little dude in the next couple weeks, and I'm now accepting suggestions for names.

Yngwie

Noodles

BonScott or Matthias Jabs

yngwie is obv the correct choice but... fenriz?

Danzig is great, but I must implore you to consider Wino

Gillan

Izzy

When little worlds collide I'm trapped inside my embryonic cage

Feeding Yourself to Live

Lol what about Axl

aw that's cute!
also short for axolotl
http://www.axolotl.org/images/animals/axolotl.jpg

axlotlols

jon hamsterson

Picking up the new hamster this weekend! Still need a name, though.

King Diamond!

Yngwie J. Hamsteen

Tom G. Hamstwarrior

if he has a high pitched squeak it has to be Hammy Lee

I had considered Geddy, but it's kind of a weird name.

it's obvious what you do. Get all the nominations then play a snippet of each to him and see what he reacts to best

Kirk Hammett

Shannon Hamm

I mean, it's a hamster, his reaction is going to be "TERROR."

Rob Hamford

Jeffrey "Hamtas" Dunn

im not sure Hamzig works

Lucifur

Behairmoth

Hamstadon

Hammy Sagar

Ted Cutegent

Lord Hamstis

Saint Furtus

Hamibal Corpse

i thought of the last one but then quickly realised it might be a tad insensitive

aw, Ted Cutegent! That's too cute.

This thread reminds me that my family once named an ostrich Ozzy.

Jeff is going to use all these names btw in his new screenplay for a cartoon about friendship amongst metal loving rodents called [i]My Little Ha\m/ster[i/]

You had an ostrich?

My family had ostriches, emus, and rheas because they were part of this weird pricing bubble at the start pf the early '90s. One of the many weird investments my dad has made over the years and basically broke even on.

did this have anything to do with the ostrich burger craze of the time?

I know my dad read some article in the newspaper about how much $$$ ostriches were selling for and he got dollar signs in his eyes, so that's why he got into it. None of them were for meat production. We had a bunch of incubators in our living room, and any one that lived past a year, he'd sell to other people in the same situation as him, people breeding ratites and selling them to other ratite farmers, who were then selling them to other ratite farmers. They were selling for $20k-$50k at one point. I found an article on JSTOR about the U.S. pricing bubble that says:

In summary, high expectations of ostrich productivity and overestimates of demand for ostrich products influenced prices early in the evolution of the
industry. Industry information promoting the relatively scarce ostrich as "revolutionary," due to its purported high productive efficiency and large
potential markets, likely contributed to the high initial prices. Subsequent price decreases occurred as investors gathered more information about actual
productive efficiency and the relatively slowly developing markets for ostrich products. The combination of "new industry" arguments and lack of
information provides insight into the high prices early in the industry's evolution. However, without also considering the role of speculation in the
industry's evolution, these arguments do not justify the average 1993 price of $25,523 for a mature breeding ostrich.

The effects of this for me, as a kid, was that a lot of our yard and house were taken up by ostriches and ostrich-raising stuff. It lead to a lot of good and sad childhood memories: baby ostriches dying in my hands, an ostrich kicking my pet rabbit to death, and getting to go on nice road and camping trips with my dad across the western U.S. to deliver ostriches he'd sold to people.

Sorry to take over the cutes kvlt hamster thread, I guess I had a lot to say about ostriches (as always).

Hamster! Hamster! Hamster of puppets pulling my strings!

Cliff Furton?

Furonymous

Furzum

Tom G. Hamstwarrior

lol, was gonna say Ham Warrior

"I ham my own best friend"

Halford.

Winger.

Van Hamster.

Lemmy Kilhamster

Hamgus Young

Blackie Clawless (only really works if she/he has got no claws and is black)

ditto Stryper

Lemmy was the name of my first hamster.

Picking the little dude up tomorrow!

Are you super excited? Have you chosen the name yet?

Trey Hamzagthoth

Ham Eternal

Pete Hamdoval

Furzum OTM

I am super excited! I'm still leaning towards Ozzy, despite all of the excellent suggestions.

Rod(ent) Stewart

No Sleep Till Hamstersmith

lock thread

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I AM IRON HAM

:-D

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No more hams-tears

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Flying high again

can you name one of his poop pellets Sharon?

Sorry for the blurriness, I'll try to grab some better pictures when he's no longer such a spaz.

name...??

judging from the captions I'm pretty sure it's Ozzy

next one needs to be Geezer

it is indeed Ozzy. He's still a little hyper, but he's settling in nicely. He enjoys climbing on the walls and ceiling of his cage.

Ozzy speaks

http://www.decibelmagazine.com/featured/for-those-about-to-squeak-ozzys-nibbles-of-the-week/