Naming inanimate objects

I let the manufacturers name the product for me however, if I'm naming something it's usually #*$_"*#$_& because it's been bleeping me off

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I used to call my 2000 wrangler the short bus (it was Yellow),
Sometimes the way I drove it I should have been a passenger
on a short bus! One of my buddies called him Eugene.
Sold it a little over a year ago due to frame rot.
 
I don't name everything, but here's two
-my 71 Chevelle is named AngilA. Because it's an A-body, and it had air bushed "angels" painted on the door jams when I bought it.

-my truck's name is Sub-du, partially because of Genesis 1:28, "And God blessed them, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." What better way to Sub-du the earth than with a truck? :D
And partially because of Metallica's - Unforgiven
 
rwsmith said:
Old Blue

I had a white Mitsubishi Montero I called the 'Zero' and was thinking about painting red 'meatballs' on the doors.
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My dad said he'd never own a Mitsubishi because they made the Zero.

Yet he had no problem with Mausers and Walthers! I never understood that.

Back to the topic, I don't really name anything I own. I had an old Chevy truck that I refer to now as "Old Blue", but I can't remember calling it that when I owned it.
 
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I was told my dad called his car, "Betsy" (he died soon after I was born so never had the opportunity to ask him). I frequently call my vehicles "Betsy".....usually when they're ready to break down and I'm pleading for them to last just a little while longer!
 
To the OP, Roy Rogers called his Jeep "Nellybelle". I usually don't name inanimate objects until they stop working, then they are called lots of obscene names. All guns are "Roscoe" or "Betsy". The one ton maroon crew cab long bed is called "Red". My breadth of imagination astounds most folks. hardcase60
 
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Dad named a number of cars over the years. We had a pair of '72 Ford Galaxies named "Bert" and "Ernie", a '86 Crown Vic named "Old Blue", a chocolate brown '83 LTD named "Wilbur" after the chocolate company in Lititz Pa, and an old dump truck named "Mr. Dirt". Dad's last F150 was red so he called it "Clifford" after the cartoon dog.
 
hardcase60 said:
To the OP, Roy Rogers called his Jeep "Nellybelle". I usually don't name inanimate objects until they stop working, then they are called lots of obscene names. All guns are "Roscoe" or "Betsy". The one ton maroon crew cab long bed is called "Red". My breadth of imagination astounds most folks. hardcase60
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Beat me to it. I was just gonna say Nellybelle is the only name for a Jeep. You went and explained it and everything.

I don’t give names to my things. I have an old BMW motorcycle that came to me with the unfortunate moniker “Adolf”, which has stuck, cheesy as it is.

A grandfather of mine kept a small fleet of Packards, which he drove until his death at 88. He named them “Old Brownie”, “Old Bluey” and “Hardtop”, (“because Old Turquoisie doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue”).
 
My 82 GMC Sierra Classic was named Red, for obvious reasons. My current truck, an 02 F-150, is named Clyde.

The last I heard - my daughter was calling her Liberty "Jeepers." We'll see what I'm calling it by the time I get done working on it this weekend.
 
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