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<blockquote data-quote="chriton227" data-source="post: 4647329" data-attributes="member: 33263">True, but a &quot;silly&quot; name is not the same as a &quot;silly&quot; character or &quot;silly&quot; behavior.&nbsp; I've met and aggressive rottwieler named &quot;Princess&quot;.&nbsp; It is a silly name.&nbsp; It was not a silly dog. The name certainly didn't make interactions with the dog silly. In real life, what about &quot;Rosey&quot; Grier? Rosey is undoubtedly a silly name, especially for a guy of Rosey's size and strength.&nbsp; Do you think the guys that Rosey Grier drove into the ground in the NFL thought the game in general or being mauled specifically was silly because the guy doing it was named Rosey? Was Robert Kennedy's assassination and the apprehension of Sirhan Sirhan silly because a guy named Rosey helped to apprehend him and made sure that he survived to be brought to trial instead of being killed by the crowd?&nbsp; To me, a silly name *is* a &quot;minor bit of humor and lightheartedness&quot;, not a full out decent into vaudeville or Monty Python slapstick.&nbsp; If on the other hand, the OP's bear was yellow, wore a red shirt, craved hunny, and got stuck in rabbit holes, *that* would be a silly bear (a silly old bear to be exact). It is a false dichotomy to say that things are either &quot;silly&quot; or &quot;serious&quot;, there is a whole continuum in between.&nbsp; On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being &quot;serious as a documentary on effects of small pox on Native American populations&quot; and 10 being &quot;a Looney Toons/Animaniacs marathon weekend&quot;, I would rank an otherwise serious character with a silly name about a 2 or 3.&nbsp; A name is just a name, it is the actions of the character that really set the tone.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="chriton227, post: 4647329, member: 33263"] True, but a "silly" name is not the same as a "silly" character or "silly" behavior. I've met and aggressive rottwieler named "Princess". It is a silly name. It was not a silly dog. The name certainly didn't make interactions with the dog silly. In real life, what about "Rosey" Grier? Rosey is undoubtedly a silly name, especially for a guy of Rosey's size and strength. Do you think the guys that Rosey Grier drove into the ground in the NFL thought the game in general or being mauled specifically was silly because the guy doing it was named Rosey? Was Robert Kennedy's assassination and the apprehension of Sirhan Sirhan silly because a guy named Rosey helped to apprehend him and made sure that he survived to be brought to trial instead of being killed by the crowd? To me, a silly name *is* a "minor bit of humor and lightheartedness", not a full out decent into vaudeville or Monty Python slapstick. If on the other hand, the OP's bear was yellow, wore a red shirt, craved hunny, and got stuck in rabbit holes, *that* would be a silly bear (a silly old bear to be exact). It is a false dichotomy to say that things are either "silly" or "serious", there is a whole continuum in between. On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being "serious as a documentary on effects of small pox on Native American populations" and 10 being "a Looney Toons/Animaniacs marathon weekend", I would rank an otherwise serious character with a silly name about a 2 or 3. A name is just a name, it is the actions of the character that really set the tone. [/QUOTE]

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