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

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

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/11813_10100923230370765_3409092_56026118_724782259_n.jpg

I AM IRON HAM

:-D

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/303460_10100923230505495_3409092_56026120_824883838_n.jpg

No more hams-tears

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/560151_10100923230685135_3409092_56026124_2063736116_n.jpg

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/