I saw the horse name post so I have decided i am going to infodump just a little bit about horse names. So, horses typically have two names: a registered name and a “barn” name. The registered name is what is given to them early on, and is considered bad luck to change, and the barn name is what you call the horse day-to-day. The barn names are fairly simple and typically not too wild, probably the weirdest barn name I’ve encountered is horse named Brown Wrapper. The *registered* names on the other hand, get pretty wild. In racehorses and registered breeding horses, you can’t name your horse something too similar to another horse until at least five years after the first horse has left service. (This isn’t a *rule* for horses that aren’t racehorses but it’s generally considered bad luck to do). Some of my favorite registered names I’ve seen include things like “Almost But Not Quite Jett Black”, “Buttcrack”, and “Lick Me I’m Delicious”

Because I am a nut, I was reading Pot8os's bio on Wikipedia in bed on my kindle and just HAD to calculate his stud fee (20 guineas in 1783) to modern day currency.