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What should we name it?

After a fictional horse, like "Shadowfax" or "Fledge"
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After a spaceship, like "Serenity" or "The Enterprise"
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A pun of some kind, like "Carl the Car", or "The CARDIS"
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A boy's name
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A girl's name
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What should I name my new car?

Postby Caspian » Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:19 pm

Jayelle and I just bought our very first new (used) car. It's a silver 99 Honda Civic with absolutely no frills. And it needs a name.
It's not "noob" to rhyme with "boob". It's "newbie" to rhyme with "boobie".
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Postby Wil » Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:29 pm

The CARDIS all the way!
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Postby Satya » Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:55 pm

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Postby Mich » Thu Jan 13, 2011 10:16 am

Clearly you should name it Artax.
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Postby Petra456 » Thu Jan 13, 2011 12:06 pm

My first car was named Carl, but it was after a friend.
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Postby Wil » Thu Jan 13, 2011 12:31 pm

You should tell Paul to name their car in a similar fashion to the Millenium Falcon: [measure of time] [bird], like the Annual Eagle or the Centennial Chicken.
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Postby Luet » Thu Jan 13, 2011 1:41 pm

Does this mean you now need to get two car seats for the kids? I was just thinking about that. You probably had no reason to have car seats until now...
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Postby Jayelle » Thu Jan 13, 2011 1:42 pm

Does this mean you now need to get two car seats for the kids? I was just thinking about that. You probably had no reason to have car seats until now...
Actually, we already had seats. We needed one for Maggie to come home from the hospital, and we've needed one for Ginny when we get rides from people or when we rent cars.
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Postby Luet » Thu Jan 13, 2011 1:45 pm

Ah, okay.

I've never named any of my cars until my current one which is Golden Boy. This was in an attempt to endear myself to it's hideous (to me) color.
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Postby Bean_wannabe » Thu Jan 13, 2011 2:03 pm

What's the numberplate? The family's old Peugot had a HCP numberplate, so was always Henry C Peugot.
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Postby Eaquae Legit » Sun Jan 16, 2011 9:11 am

All cars that I will own will probably be named Brutus. My mom calls her cars Brutus, and it's just kind of stuck in my mind.
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Postby Syphon the Sun » Sun Jan 16, 2011 12:19 pm

All cars that I will own will probably be named Brutus. My mom calls her cars Brutus, and it's just kind of stuck in my mind.
That's dangerous. You're just asking for it to stab you in the back. You're far braver than I am. I just try to keep our car happy.
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Postby Eaquae Legit » Mon Jan 17, 2011 8:50 am

It makes even less sense when you know I tend to refer to my cars as "she".
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Postby Jayelle » Mon Jan 17, 2011 9:08 am

Based on various internet polls and driving it around for awhile to get the "feel" of it, we've decided on Carl the Car. A spaceship name would be good, but it's just too old-manish to not name Carl.
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Postby buckshot » Mon Jan 17, 2011 10:56 am

Some cars/trucks must earn their names
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Postby Petra456 » Mon Jan 17, 2011 11:36 am

Based on various internet polls and driving it around for awhile to get the "feel" of it, we've decided on Carl the Car. A spaceship name would be good, but it's just too old-manish to not name Carl.
Woo! Mine felt like a Carl but didn't feel old-manish. He was little and purple.
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Postby Nehali Sophia » Mon Jan 17, 2011 2:47 pm

All cars that I will own will probably be named Brutus. My mom calls her cars Brutus, and it's just kind of stuck in my mind.
Yep. I have no idea why I wanted to nickname your car "Binky"*. It just always popped out at me whenever I saw that car - which is odd because that never happened with the twin car that my parents have, or any other car for that matter.


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Postby Eaquae Legit » Mon Jan 17, 2011 3:26 pm

I never had any idea either. :p
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Postby Dr. Mobius » Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:34 am

Since it's a Japanese car, it should have a Japanese name in my opinion. Also as a car, it's name should imply or reference motion. Using that line of reasoning, a quick google search led to the following:

HIROYUKI meaning "great journey" (宏行) - Japanese boy name.
MICHI meaning "pathway" (道) - Japanese unisex name.
MICHIO meaning "man on a journey" (道夫) - Japanese boy name.
TAKAYUKI meaning "noble journey" (隆行) - Japanese boy name.
YOSHIYUKI meaning "righteous journey" (義行) - Japanese boy name.

I'm going to take a wild guess and and say yuki means jouney and you can mash pretty much any adjective with it to make a name that means "x journey."
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Postby Gravity Defier » Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:40 am

What you're trying to say is you want them to name the car CARLYUKI?


Also, Boss, may I call you Michi or Michio? "Boss journey"
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Postby Mich » Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:49 am

Also, Boss, may I call you Michi or Michio? "Boss journey"
I'm not really sure where you're going with this, but I met a guy the other week whose name was "Matraya." No lie. He's getting a Falcor tattoo on his right arm.
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Postby Rei » Tue Jan 18, 2011 5:17 am

I've never named any of my cars until my current one which is Golden Boy.
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Postby Luet » Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:04 pm

That's awesome!

See, Golden Boy always reminds me of this Seinfeld episode.
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Postby Gravity Defier » Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:41 pm

I'm not really sure where you're going with this

Maybe I'm being dense and not knowing something I should know or misunderstanding something, but if it can be said I was "going" somewhere with this, it'd be a direct flight to Associationville, more specifically, to the suburb of "Mich is at the root of Michi(o) and I thought of you."
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Postby zeroguy » Tue Jan 18, 2011 11:47 pm

Seeing 'Golden Boy' and Josh's post with Japanese names made it so all I could think of was this Golden Boy. (edit: that's to a Wikipedia link, but the image on the page might be a bit risque)
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Postby Eaquae Legit » Wed Jan 19, 2011 3:49 am

Golden Boy makes me think of raisins.
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Postby Jayelle » Wed Jan 19, 2011 9:59 am

I've never named any of my cars until my current one which is Golden Boy.
My, but isn't it cold up there?
up above us all,
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our golden business boy
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"i...hate...winnipeg"
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