Sunday, December 30, 2007

Asterix


Was thinking about the comic when i remembered about the names. the author seems to be pretty creative i guess. i remember reading Asterix comics years and years back but it never occured to me look carefully at what the names meant or what the names of the characters were. It was until a year or two back when i realised it all. now looking at the names just brings a huge smile. Here are some of the names.

Chief 'Vitalstatistics'- Vital Statistics
Druid 'Getafix'- Get A Fix
Fish seller 'Unhygienix'- need i say more?
His wife 'Bacteria'- same again
blacksmith 'Fullyautomatix'- Fully Automatix
some other characters 'Justforkicks'- Just For Kicks

Wonder what Asterix and Obelix mean. hmmmm.any hidden meanings? even cocofonix.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great names. Very meaningful.

I also witness a a story running for nearly 30 years now with a lead character named Golhabo, classical name!

kaiza shozey said...

lol/ varah salhi ingey. i think ive been witnessing that same story as well. thats some character in it dho. gadha golaeh ei. 30 aharah dhammaaleema vaahaka.

Simon said...

Asterix = * the star
Obelix = Obelisk the menhir man
Cacophonic = unpleasant sound

In fact, almost all the names are puns!

Geriatrix - the old man with young wife
Impedimenta - wife of the chief
Influenza

so on ...

.mini said...

i love that comic! and the cartoons
hehe

starky..... said...

hehehe....yup never realised it when i first read it...really years later i noticed

kaiza shozey said...

i was just wondering if the rest of the names say Asterix and Obelix is just a mumble jumble or if it actually meant something like in the druid's name - Get a Fix. i know who they are in the comic.

Iya said...

dude... obelix is the obelic or known as the slash. ie. "/"

asterick is the thingie u get when u hold down shift and press 8. ie. "*"

it took u THIS long to get the names?

also, theres a name of an assistant of a druid called "bycarbonatesofsoda" cracked me up... that was like 8 years ago. slow, arent ya?

kaiza shozey said...

@iya: is this the point where i try to show just how superior and intelligent i am? i THINK i kinda made it obvious just how slow i was when i said it only occured to me about a year or two back. afterall, iya haa intelligenteh aharunneh dhen nuvaane ennu :). "bycarbonatesofsoda"? heheh. lol. i forgot all about that one. hehe.

Anonymous said...

@kaiza shozey

like i said. all u know is to ..................

FehiNoo said...

maube obesity for obelix???

odium said...

i hav all the asterix cmics....its fun. not only their names are cool, bt the romans and others guys names are pretty cool too :D luv them, specialy obelix :D

kaiza shozey said...

@anonymous: lol. hehehe. so u DO read my posts. heheh. cya back in male' soon bro.

@transitions: yea, thats what i thought too. what about asterix?

@odium: yea, the roman names are even better dho