That’s a flange sprocket round here!
On Star Trek and Star Wars, everyone is always in need of a hydrospanner, which I don’t think is ever actually shown (on an episode of DS9, we ARE shown an example of something that is specifically NOT a hydrospanner).
As far as my friends and I can figure out, a hydrospanner is some kind of pneumatic wrench.
I mentioned this in another thread recently (and I still have no idea what it’s supposed to be) but there’s a statue on campus at Dalhousie University that’s known among us students as the Six-Foot Exploding Penis.
The Giant Golden Bunny Rabbit by Henry Moore.
There’s the thing in Millenium Park downtown Chicago that was named the Cloud Gate, but is refered to by everyone else as The Bean
When my friend and I were both dating people who lived in North Carolina (we were both living in Ohio), I told him to keep an eye out for “nipple mountain” when driving through Mt. Airy, NC.
There’s a large sloping hill (mountain?) there that has some sort of formation on the top with straight sides and a domed top. Looks JUST like a giant boob coming up from the ground. He totally saw it the first time he drove down there and we always thought it was hi-lar-i-ous.
Unfortunately I can’t find any pics.
This is sad, but funny in a gallows-humor sort of way. My former husband was in the Navy, assigned to the USS Forrestal, an aircraft carrier. The carrier was the scene of historic destruction on July 29, 1967, when a Zuni rocket accidentally fired on deck igniting fuel and ordinance, resulting in the destruction of 21 aircraft and killing 134 men. The ship was repaired and placed back into service, but forever after referred to as the Forest Fire.
I’m puzzled. I’m trying to picture a statue of a heart that has hands, but not having much success.
This is an echo of a very old joke that appeared in a MAD Magazine satire of “2001: A Space Odyssey” where they referred to the monolith as “the box that the U.N. Building came in.”
When we were children, we referred to our mother’s breasts as “slaxybees.”
I have no idea why. She was just the only one that had them in the family.
My son and I recently took a trip on Amtrak, to see an old buddy of mine. At a stop, we asked the Conductor why there weren’t any cabooses anymore. The conductor went into a long speech about a new technological device that eliminated the need for personnel at the back of the train.
I told this story to my buddy, who used to be a train engineer himself.
“Oh, that’s called a Fred.”
“Fred?!?”
“Yeah. It’s a F*cking Rear End Device.”
My son was thrilled to hear that one.
I give you Fern’s Nipple, named by Mormon settler’s. There’s also a Molly’s Nipple in Utah.
On the bridge theme, a bridge over the Ohio River at Cincinnati, after being painted purple and made pedestrian-only a few years ago, is now popularly called the Purple People Bridge.
Thank you! I definetely see da bunny raabbaat!
My mom thinks that the Chrysler PT Cruiser is ugly. She calls it the “Hearse for Midgets.” I don’t see it myself :dubious:
East Lansing, MI (where Michigan State University is located) built a parking garage that is known to everyone as The Habitrail because it looks like something that giant hamsters would run around in.
As I remember, my family has an antique rug we call “Otis.”
The reason being that, being VERY large, and too much of an antique to risk using on a floor frequented by our usual host of creatures, we’ve kept it rolled up, and shuffled between closets for a couple of houses. With the (did I mention large?) size, weight, and overal bulk of the thing, it was like we’d taken the corpse of some distant relative, rolled it up in a rug, and hauled around and hidden “him” for a few years.
Hence, the carpet has gained a full “him” honorific. I’m not sure where “Otis” came from (“Wilt” would have been more apt), but it seems to fit.
The Douglas AC-47 is/was known as Puff the Magic Dragon because the 3 gattling guns firing at once looked like a dragons flame.
The merry-go-round at the bungalow colony I went to as a child was called “The Vomit Machine.”
That would be me, referring to the ravings of Glock-lovers as the “Glockenspiel”. 
I’ve been doing it for years (even when I was a full-time RO) and I’m positive I’ve used the term on the boards here…
While I remember:
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The Sherman Tank was known as the “Ronson” because it caught fire easily
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The V1 Buzz-Bomb was known as a “Doodlebug” because of their meandering trajectory after they ran out of fuel
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The bayonet on the Lee-Enfield No 4 Mk I was known as a “Pigsticker”
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The Lee-Enfield No 5 Mk I was nicknamed the “Jungle Carbine” (it was a carbine version of the Lee-Enfield designed for use in the jungle)
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The Fairey Swordfish was known as “Stringbag” by it’s crews
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The Sunderland Flying Boat was nicknamed “The Flying Porcupine” by German U-Boat crews because of it’s massive armament of machine guns and depth-charges (it was literally bristling with weapons)
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The Colt Single Action Army is better known as the “Peacemaker”
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Buckingham Palace is affectionately nicknamed “Buck House”
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The ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) is often called “Aunty”, especially amongst older Australians