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Your are artist, your name is Newton...I rather like the artist or arty theme and the physics and math themes!

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I always liked how Deccan named their pens: the advocate, ambassador, and so forth.

 

You could use antiquated sounding titles like magistrate, Exchequer, archduke, count, his excellency, and so forth.

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Anne-Sophie Antique

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Either the name of the scholarship recipient or the physics theme sounds right on.

 

As other have says make sure that the physics name reflects the personality and look of the pen.

Is it fair for an intelligent and family oriented mammal to be separated from his/her family and spend his/her life starved in a concrete jail?

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It'll take forever - but I'm going to name them after the scholarship recipients. I'm totally in love with that idea! :)

So for now, I'm going to name them Unnamed 1, Unnamed 2, 3, and 4. I'll make an announcement on my blog sometime this week or so.

 

Thanks everybody!


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Pchi Mint

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Slight twist on the Newton theme - call them after the various space programmes. So Gallileo, Cassini, Voyager etc.

Alternatively, if you have ranges, planets - then models named after moons. So the "Jupiter" range would be "Europa" "Ganymede" "Callisto" etc.

Another Newton theme could be alchemy, he was heavily into that, so various elements?

 

Or, and I'll buy ALL of them if you do this - characters in Winnie-the-Pooh. Who WOULDN'T want a pen called "Piglet"?

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I LOVE Winnie-the-Pooh, but that will never happen. ;)

 

 

Awww. And I was all ready to order an Eeyore! And could there be a greater example of dignified gravitas as exemplified in "The Wol"?

 

On a serious note, the colouring does very much bring moons and planets to mind. Venus is a furious boiling ball which would suit the mottled orangey/brown, the gas giants such as Neptune or Uranus (or Europa in the moons analogy) for the white.

Another suggestion which also gave a strong connection is rocks - alabaster, amber, haematite etc. There is a material very reminiscent of the mottled one but I can't for the life of me think what. Which is as helpful as a chocolate teapot, sorry.

 

Good luck with them, whatever you call them. They're beautiful.

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I LOVE Winnie-the-Pooh, but that will never happen. ;)

 

 

Awww. And I was all ready to order an Eeyore! And could there be a greater example of dignified gravitas as exemplified in "The Wol"?

 

On a serious note, the colouring does very much bring moons and planets to mind. Venus is a furious boiling ball which would suit the mottled orangey/brown, the gas giants such as Neptune or Uranus (or Europa in the moons analogy) for the white.

Another suggestion which also gave a strong connection is rocks - alabaster, amber, haematite etc. There is a material very reminiscent of the mottled one but I can't for the life of me think what. Which is as helpful as a chocolate teapot, sorry.

 

Good luck with them, whatever you call them. They're beautiful.

 

Hmmm... would anyone buy a pen called 'Uranus, the Gas Giant'? :headsmack:

 

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Pchi Mint

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Of course. I might even buy it in preference to "The Wol"!

 

Loved the suggestion to call then after relatives..."Introducing the Hilda, Doris and Gertrude!"

 

Ancient Egyptian Gods was another one I thought of - Osiris, Isis, etc. And that's yer lot; I'm better at stupid ones than serious suggestions. Funny, that...

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You could open a collected works of Shakespeare to a random page and take the name of a character or an interesting Elizabethan word.

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Okay - so as graduation draws nearer, scholarship applications have been sent out and are being filled out, and I've had more time to think on this a bit - I'm definitely going to name the main four (or maybe five?) styles of pens after the recipients. :)



I'll let the students help though - first name, last name, or nickname, or... their input will guide me.



And I've also decided that ultimately all I'm going to change about making custom pens is that the most popular styles will now have names, hopefully making it easier for people to order from my site.



I'll also be taking a percentage of income from each pen and applying it to the scholarship, along with the money raised from raffles.


And next year the scholarship will be nation wide! WOOT!! Along with the scholarship prize, each recipient will get a pen and bottle of ink



Any thoughts or suggestions? ;)



...and THIS year... I'm already nervous about it... but I'll be presenting the first recipients with their scholarships AT graduation in front of everybody. This will be the first time anybody finds out who's getting them. And I'm going to be in front of EVERYBODY. Holy cow...


Hopefully my hands won't be too shaky.


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I know it's been a while, but since I decided to name the pens after the scholarship recipients, it took a while to pick recipients and get them to give me some ideas. One of the kids picked, chose this pen, b/c it's a bit pudgy like he is, and his nickname is Gibby, so this one is now...

GIBBY. :D

 

Weird name?

 

 

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I know it's been a while, but since I decided to name the pens after the scholarship recipients, it took a while to pick recipients and get them to give me some ideas. One of the kids picked, chose this pen, b/c it's a bit pudgy like he is, and his nickname is Gibby, so this one is now...

GIBBY. :D

 

Weird name?

 

 

How about: The Gibby?

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It's funny, but adding "The" makes it sound so much less silly.

:)

 

Yup. I'm not sure why, but adding "The" makes the name sound more formal/serious.

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