"Pinkie is a good nickname. It's an especially good nickname for a baby. You know why? Because, A, babies are pink. And B, you buy them to feed to your snake."
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03/26/2010
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redfox is a small furry animal, but unfortunately not the sweet and adorable kind. she lives in an awfully large house with her black-bearded husband snarkout and marauding child jane.
see also: the hungry tiger
Japanese for "baby," if you break it into component parts, is "little red," or perhaps "redlet."
Posted by: Minivet | 03/26/2010 at 01:48 PM
And they are about the size of your pinkie (finger).
Posted by: Mum | 03/26/2010 at 02:11 PM
Also because in Adam's Rib it was Spencer Tracy's nickname and Spencer Tracy habitually chewed on his hand (along with the rest of the scenery) and it was also Katherine Hepburn's nickname and Katherine Hepburn had a very alert look.
Posted by: Ray Davis | 03/26/2010 at 02:22 PM
And because, when they scream at the top of their lungs, they are not entirely dissimilar from Pinky Perelmuth, a/k/a Jan Peerce.
Posted by: Edward M. | 03/26/2010 at 04:59 PM
WHAT are those creatures?
Posted by: ben | 03/27/2010 at 04:46 PM
They're pinkies! This is also the source of Pinky's name in Pinky and the Brain.
Posted by: redfox | 03/27/2010 at 06:27 PM
Not within P&tB canon, apparently, but surely in the real world creation of the characters.
Posted by: redfox | 03/27/2010 at 06:29 PM
Jane Cassandra continues to dazzle. My sons and I watched Pinkie and the Brain every day for two years and we are fine.
Posted by: Elsie | 03/28/2010 at 08:47 PM
My middle brother and I decided to call my youngest brother Pinky because he looked so pink when he was born. (Also, we had a book about two little pigs called Pinky and Porky who lived in the British countryside and loved to eat blackberry pie.) My mother had a time getting us to start calling him by his real name.
Posted by: dw | 03/30/2010 at 12:29 AM
They're pinkies!
How grim.
Posted by: ben | 04/01/2010 at 02:27 PM