So what is yours called?

[Crystal]

  whinewine said:

Only thing named is the shop vac:

R2D2.

Russ - that hit a funny bone! I will not be able to look at my shop vac the same again.

After reading all this- I either am not very imaginative, or have not had inanimate objects with enough charater to be worthy of being named. The hubby, however, does name his things. But he is not terribly imaginative either, they are all called the same thing - "Mine".

Crystal

[Zilla]

We had a '65 Barracuda that was named Ruda. The shop vac we had at the movie theater I use to clean when I was in High School was also named R2D2. More common tools are the thingy ma jig or the doo wicky. LOL

[leatherworklee]

Well........My stitching horse is known as "Old Flash". This thing that I am sending this on is "The Boat Anchor" just to remind it who really is boss around here. I had a Chevy 4x4 that was built in part in Canada I called it' The Mountie" It was a RCMP A Royal Canandian Money Pit. I replaced almost everything except the bumpers in the 3 1/2 years that I drove it. My Brother has an old '68 Dodge pick-up he calls the Oat Eater. Lee

[UKRay]

Sorry Tony, it looks like you, Crystal, and cousin Luke are in a minority, there are more barking mad people out there than you imagined. So be afraid... be very afraid!

I think the funniest (and most topical) to date is the stitching horse called 'Old Flash' - You are currently leading the pack, Leatherworklee. Yeehaw!

Dianne, you come a very, very close second with the story of Bessie the Buick... but your wolves definitely restore the balance - soooo cool!

HorsehairBraider, I like the 'Purple Truck' and 'BOB' but on reflection 'Seaview the vucaniser' is pretty weird by anyone's standards... least said about him the better.

Suze, why am I not surprised that you have a dress form named Lulubelle and a plastic skull called Yorick?

Shop vacs called R2D2 seem to be everywhere...

Anyone else want to take the opportunity to 'fess up?

[Denise]

My first little car was Elsie - L. C. - Little Car. Pretty tame. But my animals name themselves. I walked out of the SPCA with a silver tabby kitten and by the time I hit the front sidewalk she had called herself Tabitha. I didn't want a cat named Tabitha, especially a tabby cat. Far too common. I tried and tried and tried to change it to something else. But Tabitha or Tab she remained for 15 1/2 years. Never Tabby though. I even got after my grandmother for calling her that once.

Tab's companion cat was Finnigan Finbecker the First Nikkel. Long story there. He lived to be almost 17. They were the inside cats and thus "the kids".

The outside cats are working cats and they are "the stepkids" - cheap food, no special care, etc. Right now we have Squint and Doodle. I think the coyotes got Dandy. We had Harriet - a spayed, female long haired cat. I changed the spelling to look better. Billie Bob was the best at mousing though. One place we lived had a litter whom we called Bubble, Squeak, Burp, Fib and Horatio. They were all black and white except Horatio who was grey and white with a kinked tail. A wilder cat around here had a litter. The ones I remember were Ping and Pong, Squirt and Smurf.

Our canaries are Mello and Dee, the females, and Pavaroti, the male. Figaro died.

And Taylor the Wonder Dog came with Tay as a name, but that is so close to "stay" that we changed it a bit. Rather boring name, but the best dog in the world, bar none. (Or at least that is how I see it!)

[wildrose]

Denise, I could go on forever about pet names: we had alot of mousers on our farm over the years. I'll stick with 2: Marshmallow (thanks to my sister naming her) was a black and white female; and Patches (yet another case of "didn't really want to name her that, but it stuck"), a calico.

[TroyWest]

I had a good friend that had a 2 legged dog. Really. One leg was caught in a trap and the other was run over by a car. He had the front leg still attached but it was useless so he carried it folded up against his body. So he had a right front leg and a right rear leg. I never could remember his real name so I called him Bipod.

He could actually run as fast as the other dogs but when he tried to rear up on you he would fall over. He sat down to eat. We laughed and laughed at that dog and he was a great pet with a great attitude in spite of his adversities.

[UKRay]

Come on guys - inanimate don't mean animals! - Or maybe is this one of those transatlantic language things again?

Edited March 26, 2009 by UKRay

[wildrose]

Nah, Ray, just got sidetracked. Let's see, other than Big Blue/Deerslayer, I do have another "named" car: my 1966 Ford Mustang is named Gloria. My mom and dad gave me the car for my 35 b'day. Dad had begged his neighbor for a while to sell it to him, 'cuz the license plate said "Holly". It being my dream car, how perfect was that? Dad told the guy it was meant for me and I'd take good care of it. (Which I've done) Of course the neighbor kept the plates, but the floormats say "Holly" on the driver's side and "Gloria" on the passenger's. Gloria was the name of a dear friend of mine that I lost to cancer a few years back. She didn't drive much, but was always teasing me about my driving when she rode around with me. I know she's smiling down from Heaven and her "spirit" rides with me, ribbing me about every too fast turn or stop or swerve I make.

[tonyc1]

While we're talking about pets, we have a Pug, it's real name is Zibby and she really belongs to my daughter. We just pay for her food, vet bills and any other expenses like good parents do I guess. Well, I call her Boxhead because that's what I think her head looks like. My wife thinks I'm cruel to refer to her with that name.

Tony.