Some of us just choose a boring series of names and stick with it.
My computers all get named after elements. I started with “Hydrogen” and I’m working my way through the periodic table. This Mac I am using is “Beryllium”
My friend has a 1972 BMW Bavaria that is a color I describe as “Visualize Whirled Peas.” I call the car Minty.
(We later found out that BMW’s name for that paint color really was mintgrün.)
Yeah, but you’re saving effort. I freely admit that I bought my Roomba because I’m too goddamned lazy to vacuum.
And on that topic, mine is uncreatively just called “Roomba” - not “the Roomba”, and he is not an “it.”
My Ford Explorer; Dora.
Well, lookin’ at all the other posts, I guess I’m kinda boring.
My Chevy S10 truck is named “twuck” cause it’s a baby truck.
My Mustang convertible is named a very boring “'Stang”.
My Chevy Blazer is bright red and is so named “Big Red”.
However, my telephone that has the built in answering device is named “Tad”. That stands for Telephone Answering Device. Maybe I’ve redeemed myself with that one.
My computers… well… mostly they are called “You #%^&@!#*&^!!! Pieces Of #%^@#^&*!@#^!!!”
We are pretty boring too. We’ve only named one car and that was years ago. But DH does have names for two of his guitars. One is Baby and the other is Rose.
I have tried to name various guitars but the names seemed forced and didn’t stick.
Until I got Gracie (link to photo of guitar + cat)
Gracie is a 1973 Gibson Les Paul Custom '54 Reissue; a “Black Beauty.” It is my soul-mate guitar; the result of a multi-year, multi-guitar search, combined with a little magic. I would stack it up against pretty much any guitar at any price. It is the only guitar I have played that communicates with me - it clearly wants to be played a certain way. When I clean up my technique, make my bends a bit more precise or hit the strings with a certain pick attack, it rewards me by clearly sounding better in a way no other guitar has. I have always dreamed that I would have a special guitar - kinda like believing in love at first sight or something - but it didn’t happen until I had been playing for over 25 years…
Given that it is a demanding bitch that I enjoy, I named it after our family cat, also shown in the linked picture. Both are divas - but worth it.
My vehicles are always “Steed”, prefixed by their color. My previous SUV was Charcoal-Grey Steed. Due to a bad headgasket, I’ve moved on to Aurora Blue Mica Steed. My current mountain bike is Brushed Aluminum Steed.
Swanky axe. I don’t know why, but I really like that photo, just the composition of it or something makes me happy.
I want your guitar. I don’t know how to play but I do love Gibsons! And while you’re at it, your cat is pretty too!
My laptop is “Baby” while my computer at work is “Old Paint.” Our car is “Subitu” because it’s the second Subaru Legacy we’ve had [the first one was called “Subie”].
A friend dubbed my router “Balthasar,” after one of the three main computers in Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Man, it’s been a long time since I’ve named inanimate objects. Those were the good old days. My favorite was my car, a 1984 Oldsmobile Delta '88, which I called ‘‘Brunhilda.’’ I also had a chair named Ofie (Official Furniture In Excellence) when I was about 11.
For some reason now it strikes me as too juvenile to name inanimate objects. Which is funny, because I just got a stuffed clam puppet that gurgles when you squeeze it, and have spent the last several hours screaming, ‘‘Angry clam!’’ (gurgle) ‘‘Sleepy clam!’’ (gurgle) every time my mood changes. I am 24 years old and this clam puppet makes me really more happy about life than I would like to admit. I can actually feel my heart soar a little every time I look into its adorable plastic eyes.
So yeah, I can’t say I can tease apart my own logic regarding what constitutes ‘‘immature.’’
Confused clam! gurgle
Oh dear, we’re geeks I fear… ALL the computers have names, and the same computer gets a new name every time it gets a complete teardown/rebuild or major upgrade, especially after a cataclysmic meltdown or if it’s turned to a new purpose. Right now we have Z0mb1e_Teh_Hutt (my laptop, before most recent PHAIL!1! used to be ZombieHut,originally dubbed Morshiba because the laptop before THAT was Shiba, a Portege) r00t, Sarasvati and The Minifridge (Quad Xeon server box that sounds like a 747 when we turn it on) here at home. At work we have Galileo_Veneris (Gal Friday, heh) Explorer and Sputnik. Recently built media center box for my son is here getting a last minute spiffup–that one’s Brave Little Toaster but I don’t recall how we 133t3d that name to fit the available space.
Cars all have names, every one. I have Firefly and Time Bomb right now, previous cars were Faster (a Honda Civic,) Green Weenie, Squint, BlazeWhore, Yota (Toy truck, of course) and Der Cougarrand.
We also name the dog’s toys in order to make it easier to teach him to fetch specific items–most of them are pretty normal but he does have Squeaky Baby as well as The Entrails* (which is technically the cat’s toy but the dog likes to play with it too and he has a toybox to put it in!) That’s a little different, I guess…
*This was originally written as “Squeaky Baby and The Entrails” but I didn’t want a “band name” hijack…
My family’s always named their cars, and I got my friends to do it, too.
Lessee, as far back as I can remember:
Mochamobile - Some beige sedan
Humphry - Purple Minivan
Sammy Subaru
Joe Isuzu
Larry Legacy (Subaru)
Pedro Montero (Mitsubishi)
Hank - My bright blue dodge neon. The original plates were HNK-*** (i don’t remember the numbers)
Horatio - My friend’s ghetto old subaru. It was acting up one day and she yelled at it, calling it Horatio. She doesn’t know where it came from, but that’s his name now.
Snowball - My friends (deceased) grey POS honda. Missing a window, constantly about to explode…
The Triostium - Snowball’s successor. Silver 3-door saturn.
Um… other stuff that gets named… not much. My computer is “Compy”, my laptop is “Lappy”. We named my friend’s shiny new bass, but it was a lone, complex name which I don’t remember. I know it had “LaKwanzaa” and “Ndnd”, among others.
I named my current PC tower the Black Beast on sight about three years ago, because it was bigger than the previous tower and so coolly black. My new external harddrive I named Mini Beast a few days ago, even though while it’s small and black it dwarfs the Black Beast in storage space by miles.
It likes Pina Coladas?
I name my computers after Star Wars characters: Kitster, and Jango. Not very original of me, I know, but they’re names that trip off the tongue.
My flute is called Christine Reagan Flute. A friend of mine named his tenor, alto and soprano saxes Maddy, Dieter and Jiro respectively (the names originate from the countries the instruments were made in). Another friend named her alto sax Hubert. As english is her second language and she is rather naive, she initially had difficulty understanding why people would laugh at her when she went around telling everyone she enjoyed blowing Hubert. A few years ago this same friend went through a phase where she named all of her stationery. Another friend did the same the previous year, and she named her shoes. I got into a serious debate with another friend from the same group over the legality of marrying her pencil, Fweeem. All in all, we’re a bit too fond of naming inanimate objects. My killjoy best friend absolutely refused to name her cello Lucy at my suggestion, though.
Oh, and my family’s computers are all named after characters from Greek mythology. This one is Zeus.
My laptop is Heppy and my desktop is Beastie. My previous desktop was Cray.
The problem with naming your stuff is the horrible feeling of betrayal you get when you update - I just recently traded in my little Mazda 121, whose name was Sofie, and I felt like a heel! I haven’t named the new car yet. I’m waiting to see what suggests itself. Trudy seems to be a front-runner.
Thanks guys - and yeah, Cluricaun, that photo has really become a touchstone for me, right after photos of my kids and wife when I am on the road…