Who knows someone named after a character in Dune?

[Ellen Forradalom]

I do. I once lived upstairs from a woman so taken with Dune that she named her daughter Alia and her dog Duncan.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

1. They're not specific to Dune, y'know. n/t

[Ellen Forradalom]

7. She expressly said so.

She took the names from Dune.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

9. Fair enough. I stand corrected. What's so sci-fi about the name Duncan?

[Ellen Forradalom]

12. Nothing, unless a sci-fi book is your inspiration

for naming your kids/dog.

[Superfly]

2. My first name is Muad'Dib

and my neighbor is a guy named Harkonnen something or other.

[Exultant Democracy]

3. I know a guy named Paul, and a Duncan

[htuttle]

4. Well, there's my cousin, the Padisha Emperor Shaddam IV

But his real name is 'Bill'. He's kind of...special...

[DrWeird]

5. I know a guy named Paul.

An obvious Herbert reference if I ever heard one.

[TrogL]

6. My daughter

[catzies]

11. Are you going to tell us her name Trof?

I'll bet it's Jessica! ;)

[soleft]

8. I know someone named Shout Out Make Piece

Not really

[Superfly]

10. That's baaaaaad...

ANd it took me a few seconds to realize who your were talking about...

:toast:

[izzie]

13. I had a dog named Striter. Oh wrong book.

Now the family has a cat named Striter because they liked the dogs name so well. Does this count at all?