Favourite Discworld Names?

[Antiq]

Vetenari. It cracked me up when I first encountered it and "got it"
Also Binky, and My Little Binky.
Gaspode.
Cthinema (Moving Pictures)

[Danny B]

Windle Poons - because it trips so nicely off the tongue.
Lupin Wonse - for similar reasons.
A.E. Pessimal - the idea of initials in place of a name amuses me.
and finally, Magrat - because I come from a family with a woman named Debron in it, on account of my Uncle being hard to understand at the best of times*, as well as roaring drunk when he visited the registrar.

* He's one of that curious species of, now elderly, fellow; the ones who speak at what seems to be 75 words-per-minute, primarily in a series of clicks, grunts, whistle and questioning looks. On the rare occasions they achieve clarity of sound, they turn out to be using some bizarre metaphor, figure of speech or proverb which you've never heard before. Imagine The Fast Show's Rowley Birkin Q.C., but with a broad Northumbrian accent. They don't make them like that any more.

[MongoGutman]

Vetenari. It cracked me up when I first encountered it and "got it"

"got it"? got what? it sounds a little like an animal doctor, is that it or am i missing a deeper joke?

[Oberon]

Vetenari. It cracked me up when I first encountered it and "got it"

"got it"? got what? it sounds a little like an animal doctor, is that it or am i missing a deeper joke?

If you are that makes two of us .

[Mycroft Vimes]

Cohen the Barbarian is a big favourite of mine.
Also like Nobby Nobbs and if i ever got a cat(not likely,sadly allergic) it would very likely be named Greebo.
Dangerous Beans,Hamnpork(the way the The Clan gets their names is quite nice of course ) and the phrase "hwuntwothreefour"...will forever conjure up an image of an tapdancing mouse named Sardines,top hat and cane included of course.
(Or something very similar,did't have time to look it up.
Edit little later : Nagged me as being wrong so did still look it up and corrected accordingly .)

[cabbagehead]

"got it"? got what? it sounds a little like an animal doctor, is that it or am i missing a deeper joke?

Vetinari is to veterinarian as Medici is to a practitioner of medicine.

[MongoGutman]

hmm... and the Medici were rulers/politicians in err... foreng parts during the renaissance. OK, I see that. Clever. Not funny, but clever.

[Tonyblack]

Medici = medical
Vetinari = veterinary

[cabbagehead]

and the Medici were rulers/politicians in err... foreng parts during the renaissance.

Among other things, one of them was the patron of Leonardo da Vinci, just like Vetinari and the other Leonard.

[MongoGutman]

and the Medici were rulers/politicians in err... foreng parts during the renaissance.

Among other things, one of them was the patron of Leonardo da Vinci, just like Vetinari and the other Leonard.

Now that's interesting. My recollection is that Vetinari was introduced long before Leonard

[gribeaux]

Ye Gods, I hadn't got that one! Thankyou.

[fids]

Not a character's name but The Eludicated Brethren of the Ebon Night always made me giggle.

[Char]

I quite like Herr Trubelmacher.

[Hvitveis]

B. S. Johnson is a good one. (I'd love to hear a version Bubbla's Catastophe Suite..)

[Char]

I just got up to a certain part in Carpe Jugulum:

Moocow Poorchick (or James What The Hell's That Cow Doing In Here Poorchick)
My God He's Heavy The First
Yodel Lightley
Total Biscuit
Chlamydia Weaver (ended up being Sally Weaver after her mother decided it was easier to spell)