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Sometimes. Usually punny in nature.
My big tractor is the "Cabota". Kubota with a cab...sorta named itself.
My little tractor is Guido. It's a Pasquali which is obviously Italian. Again, just sorta happened.
A previous tractor, a 1938 Farmall F14 was called The Red Menace. It was extremely temperamental about starting and strained my vocabulary on a regular basis.
Only ever named one 4 wheeled vehicle (other than the generic "miserable sonofabitch!") an extremely dilapitated 1965 Chevy short bed step side. It was "BUDS" for Big, Ugly, Dirty and Smelly. "Big" was a bit of a stretch, but it definitely qualified for all the rest. It was my Stealth Rod. Slightly warmed over 350 and a Muncie wide-ratio. Embarrassed a few kids with it...
Edit: I fibbed. Had a 2001 Dodge Dakota that went by "The Duck Odor" which I traded for a 2006 GMC that got named "Kermit". (It ain't easy being green...)
Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.
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| I named the trailer hitch on one of our trucks, after my shin found it . It rhymed with Rock chucker
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Neck Ties, Hats and ammo brass, Never ,ever touch'em w/o asking first
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| My daughter named our new Sequoia "Lucy". I don't know why, but it stuck.
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| Just my johnson. I call it: retractable baton.
Hedley Lamarr: Wait, wait, wait. I'm unarmed.
Bart: Alright, we'll settle this like men, with our fists.
Hedley Lamarr: Sorry, I just remembered . . . I am armed.
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Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
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| Normally, no. The single exception is my S&W Model 19 with a 2.5 inch barrel. I was with someone at an indoor range and we were assigned lane 1, which is situated all the way to the left, against the wall. The guy I was with told me, after we were finished, that there were a couple of other people a few lanes away from us and every time I was shooting the Model 19 they would stop and look our way with a “What the heck is that guy shooting!?!” look on their faces. I laughed and said “Well, we were against the wall, so the sound would bounce off and .357 Magnums have a pretty good thump to them, anyway, I imagine short barreled ones even more so.” Since that day I have referred to it by ‘Thumper’.
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| | | Posts: 12288 | Location: The untamed wilds of Kansas | Registered: August 25, 2001 |
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| Not only no for myself, but I don't at present know personally anyone who does. Two exceptions: I knew a guy in the Navy that called his truck "Shoulda", as in "Shoulda bought a Chevy". My late mother called her '73 Chrysler New Yorker "Big Mama"; my late father just called it a big mother.
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| Sometimes..... My FIL (88 yrs old) and I always carry and sometimes it's different pistols. I'll ask "What are you carrying?" and he might say Casey (a Kimber KC revolver)! I might say my companion is Gaston (a G19)! Walter, Smitty, the King, and other names are bantered about. It's entertaining. BTW, we shoot/train with all of the pistols we carry! |
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| A long time ago I bought a hammer and it was un named for a short period .It was a 22oz Estwing framing hammer that had a milled face. HAD (operative word) for about an hour before I took the skin off my thumb knuckle down to the bone. That was 45 years ago and I still have and use Killer.
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| Just about everywhere I've been, there's been one aircraft or vehicle in the fleet that's "christine." Sometimes several. The crappiest one usually carries the title. Sometimes it's a toss-up. |
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