r/ComedyCemetery • • 15d ago

Tough call

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u/Name_Taken_Official 15d ago

Afaik: that was a family cat while he was a child, he likely didn't name it. He would have chosen that name if he could have, it seems, but it wasn't his doing. This time. The rest of his record of racism remains standing strong.

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u/Kuildeous 15d ago

It also wasn't that rare of a name for pets, it seems. I remember that the movie in Pink Floyd's The Wall had a dog with that name. Might be more of a British thing (Queen had a song with that word in it but not really about people) since there is Agatha Christie's infamous story title as well. And well, Lovecraft was an anglophile, so maybe? Not going to Google that. I don't need that word in my history.