Garfield by Jim Davis for March 16, 2010

… but true.

You can just imagine what the name Garfield means.

^….A field of garlic?

“Garfield……..All You Can Eat Buffet”

Jon got told badly

I heard from Garfield aniversary books (the 25th and the 30th) that Davis named the dog after some person in an old automobile commercial on the radio or something. What would that book Jon’s reading there say on “Odie”?

Yeah, very scary!

Don’t give Garfield ideas there Jon. Might be dangerous if he has a sudden hankering for pizza. Hehehe

GARFIELD - Name Meaning & Origin

Definition: One who lived on or near a triangular field or piece of land. From the Old English gar meaning “triangular land,” and feld meaning “open country or field.” Surname Origin: English

Alternate Surname Spellings: GARFELD, GARFEELD

So does this mean Calvin means the samething as Jon which begs the question who was Jon’s Moe

Jon, you need an “h” in your name like I’ve got, makes all the difference.

I thought it meant toilet, but ‘he who gets beat up for lunch money’ probably describes Jon too.

god’s gift to what? well shades, that explains his love of pizza. Actually, john is for sir john harrington. the flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by thomas crapper as most people think, but by sir john harrington. he invented the valve that when pulled would release water from a water closet. sorry, jon.

An alternative to “God’s Gift”, Jon (or John or Jane or Jan) means “God has been gracious”.

What would be worse if they were a photo of Jon beside the word

If a Hebrew student may step in:

Yonatan (Jonathan or Jon) = “Yah has given”

Yochanan (Johanan or John) = “Yah has been gracious”

It doesn’t pay to quibble further about the translitrations and translations; there are alternatives that convey the sense well enough…and I’m not going to go all geeky and give you the original Hebrew letters, although I could. :)

My point is, “Jon” and “John” in English come from two different Hebrew “theophoric” names and mean different things at the root.

One could speculate on what Jon represents as a Divine Gift to the world…laughter, maybe?

“Odie” is just the pronunciation of “O.D.” which is short for “Other Dog” - and before you ask, the “First Dog” is Fido

Jon is short for Jonah which means “he who gets swallowed by fish”

Garfield is short for a cat of his weight

Very cool, NoBrandName! A sign of a long-time Garfield reader.

As you’ll also recall, Garfield isn’t overweight, he’s undertall. :))

Some info on name origins for Garfield, according to the 20th Anniversary Collection (and it looks like other books as well):

-Jon Arbuckle came from an old coffee commercial that Jim Davis heard before,

-Odie came from car dealership radio ad Jim wrote, featuring a village idiot of the same name (Jim: “The name Odie is really an inside joke…it connoted stupidity, at least to me”),

-James A. Garfield Davis, the grandfather of Jim, is where you-know-who comes from.

Oh, and for those who would be familiar with the name:

-Lyman was first used on Jim’s first strip, Gnorm Gnat.

Nope, Jim Davis wrote that odie was named after a “village idiot” in a commercial

My name means “little raven”.

what does the name will mean?

my name means crown for some reason.

Looked it up and Jon is wrong.