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edina
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response 25 of 79:
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Apr 10 18:08 UTC 2002 |
My car goes from Space Ghost to the Shaggin Wagon. (Volvo station wagon).
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morwen
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response 26 of 79:
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Apr 10 20:30 UTC 2002 |
resp:21 Captain Flo is female, a calico actually, and, as for her
family having her fixed, I'm not sure yet. I would say she has
probably already been spayed. She's called Captain Flo because she
acts like she's in charge of everybody. They also have a Samoyed dog
which Flo gets along with pretty well.
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ea
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response 27 of 79:
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Apr 10 22:44 UTC 2002 |
My current computer is "ea" (the 2 other computers on "my" network are
"ea2" and "ea3"). I think the servers on campus have more interesting
names ... Rodan, Gamera, Forbin, Hydra, Lurch, and Icarus (Mothra has
been retired)
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fitz
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response 28 of 79:
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Apr 11 07:50 UTC 2002 |
Cats: Fido and Spot
Only one car had a name: A Ford Falcon was the Gutless Wonder
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johnnie
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response 29 of 79:
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Apr 11 12:23 UTC 2002 |
A friend of mine has a mutt named Diogi (dee-OH-gee)...
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jep
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response 30 of 79:
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Apr 11 13:47 UTC 2002 |
I've often named my cars. I had one named "Slower than C" and called
it "Slow" for short. It was also slower than highway speeds, and after
not long was slowly towed to a junk yard. My nephew and niece named
one car "Cookie". The minivan was named "Clara Belle". My wife woke
up in the middle of the night and for some reason made a list of 100
names for cows, and the van we bought not long after that seemed bovine
to us. My old pickup truck is "the Pogo Truck" and my 5 year old and I
sing songs to and about it. I haven't named the Taurus I've been
driving every day for the last few months. Maybe I'll ask my son if we
can name it "Oxbow", for no particular reason than that it seems an
okay name to me.
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blaise
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response 31 of 79:
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Apr 11 14:04 UTC 2002 |
My family has always named its cars. The first one I remember was the Ford
Falcon that was named "Henry". Then there was the AMC Matador named "Toro".
Then the light-blue Plymouth named "Beyond" (the blue Horizon). My first car
was a four-door Nissan Stanza so I named it "Quatrain". Then I got a Nissan
240SX in two-tone blue which was "the Blue Bomb"; after that it was a red Saab
named "Erik". My wife had a grey Buick LeSabre that was named "Mouser". My
Plymouth Sundance was named "Longbow" (I'm an archer and the real name of the
Sundance Kid was Harry Longbaugh).
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void
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response 32 of 79:
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Apr 11 16:02 UTC 2002 |
All my cars have had names:
1976 Malibu: Ian
197? Chrysler thing: Sylvie
1980 Skylark: Heathcliff
1989 Geo: Pan
198? Celebrity wagon: Gertrude
197? Ford thing: Aloysius
197? Jeep Cherokee: Bullwinkle
1983 Mustang: Critter
1979 Aspen wagon: Caspar
1980 AMC Eagle wagon: Hobbes
1983 Saab 900: Freya
1991 Cutlass wagon: Mortimer
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slynne
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response 33 of 79:
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Apr 11 16:26 UTC 2002 |
I've only had one car with a name. When I was a teenager, my family had
a 1979 baby blue Ford Fairmont station wagon which was the oldest car
in the family and, thus, the only one I was allowed to drive. One time,
I went to pick up a friend and she noticed the HUNDREDS of wire coat
hangers that were in the way back. (My mom had cleaned the closets and
put them in the car so she could recycle them). So my friend
said, "Geez Lynne, what are you planning on doing with all those
hangers? Open a mobile abortion clinic?" We called the car M.A.C. after
that and the name stuck.
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gull
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response 34 of 79:
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Apr 11 18:11 UTC 2002 |
That's wonderfully tasteless. ;)
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remmers
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response 35 of 79:
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Apr 11 19:20 UTC 2002 |
<remmers nostalgically recalls Meg Geddes' "Bloodmobile" from the 1980s...>
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jaklumen
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response 36 of 79:
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Apr 11 22:21 UTC 2002 |
am I the only person who has not named my vehicle?
Maybe I'm out of it.
My friends in high school dubbed a Pontiac Sunbird (1980's, forgot
what year) the "Prattmobile."
The next car, an '87 Toyota Tercel, was named "Noname" by another
friend.
The next car, an '87 Chevy Nova/Corolla, I named 'Aaron' (ERN was part
of the license plate).
Current vehicle-- 1995 Dodge Caravan.. no name.
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remmers
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response 37 of 79:
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Apr 12 01:58 UTC 2002 |
You're not the only who never names cars, computers, and other
non-living objects. I don't either.
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jaklumen
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response 38 of 79:
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Apr 12 04:10 UTC 2002 |
read resp:36 again. I named one vehicle. Of course, I never used any
of the names consistently.
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jmsaul
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response 39 of 79:
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Apr 12 05:09 UTC 2002 |
I never name them, personally.
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gelinas
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response 40 of 79:
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Apr 12 05:55 UTC 2002 |
I said above that I've not named cars. I did, however, now and again refer
to my Maverick as the "Brown Rocketsled". I really liked that 302 V8.
Other than that, it's "gomobile" or "gocart".
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senna
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response 41 of 79:
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Apr 12 06:07 UTC 2002 |
It just occurred to me that I willfully participated in at least one naming
of an inanimate object: For reasons that no one can determine, the QuickCart
machine at Meijer was nicknamed "Lester" and thereafter referred to only as
such. As a person with some authority, I have to deal with the guilt almost
every day. After all, I set a horrible example by participating.
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michaela
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response 42 of 79:
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Apr 12 09:02 UTC 2002 |
My Plymouth Horizon was the Birdymobile once in a great while, but I've never
named a car. Sometimes I call the Cavalier my baby, but it's just a term of
endearment.
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brighn
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response 43 of 79:
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Apr 12 14:30 UTC 2002 |
#41> I'm confused. While I can understand someone not personally naming
inanimate objects (like John, who does log on to GREX ;} ), I cna't understand
someone experiencing guilt or shame over being part of such a naming. Name
things, don't name things, big hairy deal. It's fun, but other people find
their amusement other ways.
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morwen
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response 44 of 79:
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Apr 12 15:00 UTC 2002 |
resp:36 It does *too* have a name. Beek and I named it.
It is "Prattvan". (Batman TV themesong plays)
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flem
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response 45 of 79:
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Apr 12 15:31 UTC 2002 |
This is only vaguely and tangentially related to the subject, but
what the heck. At work, various people have over the years subscribed
to an astonishing number of IT business magazines, none of which anyone
ever reads. Most of them sit unopened in a pile in the front foyer, but
some of them make their way into the bathroom on the theory that someone
may actually be bored enough to read them there. One such magazine had a
back cover featuring a Computer Associates ad, showing a criminal-type
mugshot of a cheerful, harmless-looking middle-aged woman, one Mrs. Rose
Bancroft. The caption read (paraphrase) "You've secured your network against
hackers and vandals, but what about Rose in Benefits?"
The magazine was there for so long that we eventually started referring
to the bathroom as Rose Bancroft's office. "I'm gonna go talk to Rose in
Benefits", or "I need to have a chat with Rose", and so forth, are common
slang around here.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled whatever is going on.
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oval
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response 46 of 79:
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Apr 12 18:41 UTC 2002 |
heh, that's cute.
i only named my cat (tuesday, aka poo or fatso) and my computer (bob).
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senna
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response 47 of 79:
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Apr 12 22:58 UTC 2002 |
Yes, brighn, I fall asleep every night with a pang of guilt from my poor
behavior at Meijer.
Or maybe your leg is being tugged a bit. :)
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other
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response 48 of 79:
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Apr 13 16:22 UTC 2002 |
My former car, a rust-speckled white ford ltd brougham, was called "the
toasted marshmallow."
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jaklumen
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response 49 of 79:
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Apr 14 05:53 UTC 2002 |
resp:44 "Beek" is a friend of ours in Seattle.
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