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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago

Cliff

For(r)est

Meadow

River

Brook

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 hour ago

What are you doing steppe nomad?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 44 minutes ago

Xeric Shrubland is going to Google his name in 16 years and dedicate his life to hunting you down.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 hour ago

Does Forest not count? Gump is sad.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

🎶 One of these things is not like the others 🎶

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

I guess cause when the name was made, a good place for a battle was a big ole field. (Speculation)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, what the fuck?

A plain is mostly grasses. Meadows, fields, and battlefields have flowers.

And love can bloom on them.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 hours ago

Tony the Taiga

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

there's probably somebody named lake

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 minutes ago

Actress Lake Bell? She has a lot of credits. Girl works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I would name a child Orchard.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Theorycrafting this - Tundra would be a nice name. So would Mesa, Fen, and Delta.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago

Sitting behind these hairdos in class and at the theater definitely sucked back in the 80's.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I know a kid named River 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I do as well. She's a real badass too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 58 minutes ago (1 children)

And she can kill you with her brain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 54 minutes ago (1 children)

We're possibly talking about different people, unless the River I know has latent superpowers that I'm unaware of.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 52 minutes ago

I'm thinking of River Tam, from Firefly.

Whether she can or can't do that is still debatable, but she did tell Jayne she could. And she can read minds, so it's not entirely out of the question...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 25 minutes ago

No, lol. My cousin’s real-life 5 yr old son.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

I'm going to change my name to Peat Bog

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 hours ago

What about For(r)est Gump?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 hours ago

Taiga is a nice name too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Naming my kid Tundra or Elfin now, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Ephemeral Pond IIII. I am named after my great grandfather.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Xeric Shrubland is definitely a LOTR character.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Xeric as a name actually sounds kinda badass

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 hours ago

If I ever see it as a name I'm just going to assume it's someone who was named Eric by his parents and had it changed to be edgier when he was fourteen

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

My beautiful sons Lupine Meadow and Coastal Sage Scrub.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Xeric sounds kind of like a cool name to give a kid if you want that kid to suffer for their entire life.

But then again they could rise above it and become a cool person, maybe not quite on the level of Streetlamp leMoose but close.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

They'd be pretty popular with the Runescape crowd, for whatever that's worth.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

If I have a daughter, I'll name her Swamp Thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like a life destined for venirial disease

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Takes “draining the swamp” to a whole new (medical) level.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

cherry grove

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

I bet you could find someone named chaparral.

Also I'm sure there's a scrub joke to be had here.

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