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Do you name inanimate objects?

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August 25, 2020, 04:46 PM
PHPaul
Do you name inanimate objects?
quote:
Originally posted by PHPaul:
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...)



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August 25, 2020, 04:51 PM
bendable
I named the trailer hitch on one of our trucks, after my shin found it .

It rhymed with
Rock chucker




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August 25, 2020, 05:09 PM
fwbulldog
My daughter named our new Sequoia "Lucy".

I don't know why, but it stuck.


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August 25, 2020, 05:15 PM
Shaql
Just my johnson. I call it: retractable baton.




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August 25, 2020, 05:17 PM
Sig209
no

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August 25, 2020, 05:23 PM
clubleaf206
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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August 25, 2020, 05:23 PM
whanson_wi
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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August 25, 2020, 05:24 PM
darthfuster
Only one of my objects has a name. It is a Sako TRG-21 named Infidel.


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August 25, 2020, 05:24 PM
cheesegrits
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Originally posted by PowerSurge:
Nope. That’s for women. Such as my g/f who has named her Lexus, “Lexi”

Some women. It's certainly not something I do, and I can't think of any friends who do. Of course they could be naming things we don't talk about, so there's that... Wink
August 25, 2020, 05:29 PM
odin
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!
August 25, 2020, 05:50 PM
Hobbs
Can only think of having named one inanimate object. My Jeep has been with me for 17yrs and earned a name. Ruby
August 25, 2020, 05:54 PM
egregore
Generally, no. Sometimes I'll jokingly nickname an old low mileage luxury car "Beatrice," but that's about it.
August 25, 2020, 06:00 PM
aileron
Only my airplanes and the car's GPS. I talk to the plane, especially at night and over water. I talk nice...

The GPS is Phoebe, the polite version of PB - psycho bitch.
August 25, 2020, 06:02 PM
rat2306
Vehicles, yes. Glocks, yes. Other firearms and inanimate objects; no.
August 25, 2020, 06:11 PM
triggertreat
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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August 25, 2020, 06:12 PM
StorminNormin
Nope, never have but I don’t judge anyone who does. If you really like something, then it is very personal to you.



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August 25, 2020, 06:13 PM
recoatlift
I named my P225, La’Keysha.
August 25, 2020, 06:16 PM
sns3guppy
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.
August 25, 2020, 06:19 PM
TannerBoyl
I don’t normally name inanimate objects.

Usually, I call it by a variation of the model name (The Tundra, The P228, The Goldtop Les Paul).

On a few occasions, I add in a cuss word if I’m feeling particularly salty.
August 25, 2020, 06:27 PM
MNSIG
No

I do own a boat, but it's not named either. IMO, if you can put it on a trailer that can be towed without a CDL, it's not big enough to name.