=simoneyvette [link] asked in a recent poll "Who named the Earth"? I answered thus:

Gnar the Elder in the Spring of 6834 BCE. See, he was Yak hunting in the Siberian Steppe and tripped over an errant Hedgehog who had got himself lost while looking for Rutabaga leaves [Rutabaga originated in the Steppe, Hedgehogs are marvelously well educated in such things cute little vegetarian buggers that they are...] to cure a persistent stomach complaint caused by over-indulgence in bangers and eggs for breakfast at his local Pub which bore the rather interesting moniker, the "Knee-Cap and Hound". No-one was quite certain as to how it had come by this unfortunate name but most blamed Zuup the Unsteady who, perhaps rightly, was credited with the discovery of distillation as a means of refining and concentrating the alcohol from fermented grains into what he called, "Whiskey"; most said that it should have been called wiski but Zuup was three sheets to the wind at the time and having no small difficulty with the language, in any case the discovery prompted Zuup to open an establishment to promote the sale and consumption of said wiski and had the building designed by Kleep the Nearsighted. Kleep being, unfortunately, most fond of Zuups invention, quite forgot the proper height for the threshold and had one installed that was, to be kind, just a bit too tall and very tall indeed considering the condition of those attempting to navigate same on their way out of Zuups establishment, not that anyone making ingress seemed to think it a problem. The whole affair come to a head at the dedication where, following the pre-dedication celebration, during which extremely generous quantities of wiski were available without cost, Zuup was attempting to make his way outside to address the crowd gathered, if "gathered" is the proper term for the drunken rabble lying in the street outside, to hear the official naming when he tripped over the threshold landing heavily on the wooden porch and breaking his knee-cap; this caused him to howl like a hound garnering cheers from the crowd and resulting in their naming it the "Knee-cap and Hound" while Zuup was in hospital. Anyway, Gnar landed on his face getting a mouthful of dirt in the process causing him to exclaim, "Errth!", hence the name; no-one is quite sure how things turned out for the Hedgehog.