Much Listy Stuff

Music stars and their un-sexy real names:

• David Bowie - David Robert Hayward Stenton Jones
• Eric Clapton - Eric Patrick Clapp
• Alice Cooper - Vincent Damon Furnier
• Dido - Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong
• Bob Dylan - Robert Alan Zimmerman
• Jewel - Jewel Kilcher
• Mama Cass - Ellen Naomi Cohen
• Marilyn Manson - Brian Warner
• Meat Loaf - Marvin Lee Aday
• George Michael - Yorgos Panayiotou
• Nelly - Carnell Haynes, Jr.
• Lou Reed - Louis Firbank
• Busta Rhymes - Trevor Tahiem Smith
• Cliff Richard - Harry Webb
• Sade - Helen Folasade Adu
• Seal - Henry Olusegun Olumide Samuel
• Gene Simmons - Chaim Witz
• Cat Stevens - Steve Georgiou
• Sly Stone - Sylvester Stewart
• Ice T - Tracy Marrow
• Randy Travis - Randy Bruce Traywick
• Shania Twain - Eileen Regina Edwards
• Frankie Valli - Frank Castelluccio
• Eddie Vedder - Edward Louis Severson

Dog barks around the world:

• English: woof, woof
• Albanian: ham, ham
• Arabic: haw, haw
• Bulgarian: bau, bau
• Danish: vov, vov
• Estonian: auh, auh
• Farsi: vogh, vogh
• Finnish: hau, hau
• French: ouaf, ouaf
• German: wau, wau
• Greek: gav, gav
• Hindi: bho, bho
• Icelandic: voff, voff
• Italian: bau, bau
• Japanese: wan, wan
• Korean: mung, mung
• Latvian: vau, vau
• Mandarin Chinese: wang, wang
• Norwegian: voff, voff
• Polish: hau, hau
• Romanian: ham, ham
• Russian: gav, gav
• Spanish: guau, guau
• Swedish: voff, voff
• Thai: hoang, hoang

Celebrity cat names:

• Hodge: Samuel Johnson, British writer and lexicographer
• Selima: Horace Walpole, British writer and historian
• Langbourne: Jeremy Bentham, British writer, reformer, and philosopher
• Old Foss: Edward Lear, British poet and humorist
• Siam: Rutherford B. Hayes, American president
• Appolinaris, Beelzebub, Blatherskaite, Buffalo Bill: Mark Twain, American author
• Bismarck: Florence Nightingale, British nurse
• Cobby: Thomas Hardy, British writer
• Chess, Checkmate: Alexander Alekhine, Russian-French chess player
• Taki: Raymond Chandler, American novelist
• Jellylorum, George Pushdragon: T.S. Eliot, American-born British critic and writer
• Blackie, Jock, Nelson, Tango: Winston Churchill, British politician and writer
• Beppo: Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian writer
• Gujarat: John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-born American economist, writer, and diplomat
• Fuckchop: Trent Reznor, leader, Nine Inch Nails

Latin proverbs:

• Audi alteram partem - "Hear the other side."
• Credo quia absurdum - "I believe it because it is absurd."
• Errare humanum est; perseverare diabolicum - "To err is human; to repeat error is of the devil."
• Ex nihilo nihil fit - "Nothing comes from nothing."
• Festina lente - "Make haste slowly."
• Gutta cavat lapidem - "Constant dropping wears the stone."
• Mundus vult decipi - "The world wants to be deceived."
• Natura non contristur - "Nature isn't sentimental."
• Quem di diligunt, adulescens moritur - "Whom the gods love dies young."
• Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor - "I see the better way and approve it, but I follow the worse way."

The motto of the Addams Family is Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc — "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us."