# Amusing nicknames for things? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 13, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-nicknames-for-things/368567 "2006-08-13T17:11:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-nicknames-for-things/368567/61 "2006-08-15T15:23:29Z")
> [@FatBaldGuy](#): > > I’m puzzled. I’m trying to picture a statue of a heart that has hands, but not having much success. I’m not in Spain and I’ve not seen the statues Nava is talking about, but my guess is that the statue is of Christ. The Sacred Heart of Jesus depictions of Him usually feature just a picture or statue of Jesus, yet with his heart “exposed.” [Here are some pictures](http://images.google.com/images?q=sacred+heart+of+jesus&hl=en&lr=&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title) Hope that helps. ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-nicknames-for-things/368567/62 "2006-08-15T15:28:27Z")
Returning to the Aviation theme of the OP: Early production [Beechcraft Bonanzas](http://www.foto-highlights.de/preview/v9257.jpg) are known as “forked-tail-doctor-killers”. Marketed as a “luxury aircraft” , and expensive enough that only wealthy (e.g. doctors) pilots could afford them, and something of a status symbol…also a fairly fast and complex airplane to fly, so low time pilots tended to get into trouble. The appelation reflected some jealosy, and a mild disdane for wealthy, but low time pilots. (The way many people look down upon Hummer drivers, but arrogance is less likely to be fatal for a car driver than for a pilot) . I once had a pilot friend’s wife look at me in horror when I used the term…she was a pediatrician. A lot of hang-glider pilots will refer to thier aircraft as “Dangle-Divers” or just “diver”. Sort of a rhyming slang, but also refers to the fact that early rogallo wings were prone to an unrecoverable luff dive if unloaded. (since the late 70’s this is no longer an issue) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-nicknames-for-things/368567/63 "2006-08-15T16:58:07Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > There’s a Henry Moore “Reclining Female Nude” sculpture in one of the side courts at MIT. The students call it **The Giant Golden Bunny Rabbit** because, seen from one angle, that’s exactly what it looks like. Right down to the eye. There’s what I thought was a Henry Moore at Princeton (not Oval with Points) that looks just like a peppermint Lifesaver. I can’t find an image though so it may be by someone else…? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-nicknames-for-things/368567/64 "2006-08-15T17:35:36Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > There’s what I thought was a Henry Moore at Princeton (not Oval with Points) that looks just like a peppermint Lifesaver. I can’t find an image though so it may be by someone else…? Yep, Noguchi, “White Sun”. The page it’s on is disabled, but it’s the fourth one over [here](http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=Princeton+White+Sun+). ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-nicknames-for-things/368567/65 "2006-08-15T18:17:47Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > The [Citroen 2CV](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_2CV) (whose official name was shorthand for _deux chaveaux_, or “two horses”, owing to its low horsepower rating) has acquired many affectionate/deprecatory sobriquets around the world. Or the old VW bug called the Pregnant Roller Skate (modernised to Pregnant Skateboard). Dublin has the [Floozie in the Jacuzzi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_statues_and_their_nicknames) amongst many other nicknamed sculptures. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-nicknames-for-things/368567.md?page=3)