Naming personal possessions

[Sasquatch]

Saturday was the first day of fishing season here in Wisconsin, so of course I went. I put my kayak into the Wisconsin River and rowed upstream about a mile, stayed there for a while, then slowly drifted back, stopping to fish more when I found a decent spot. And when I was done, I paddled back to where I put in at and left.

But something occurred to me while I was taking my kayak out and putting it in my truck. See, both of them have names. Both have stories behind them too, of course -- my dad bought a canoe around the the same time my sister (Amanda) was born, so he named the canoe "Mandy", and since that was the only boat I knew for a long while when I was a kid, I got a little sentimental and named my kayak "Mandy" as well. And my truck is named "Christine", after my Husky in Iraq, which I named after the '58 Fury in the Stephen King book/movie -- that's a longer story, but I already posted that around here somewhere.

But yeah, so I figured I'd make a thread out of it, because I was wondering how many other people do the same thing.

Do you name your possessions? Your car, your boat, a firearm, your console, anything? Obviously, people name their pets and kids -- those don't count.

I'll put up pictures of Christine and Mandy sometime, too.

[Che]

No, I don't, and I never understood why people feel the need to name their vehicles human names. My car is called "The Prelude", not because it is the beginning of a story (or maybe...) but because that is it's model.

[winterborn86]

I named my houseplant "planty" once.
I havn't named my umbrella as such but I refer to it as a bumbershoot instead lol

[Storm]

I don't really name my possesions, although I do have a fimo keyring of a zulu warrior that I call Borris (or Borris the Bushman for his full name). I also had a cyclamen plant called Gordon, just becuase I thought it was a cool name. I also have some rubber ducks that have names. There is a big flashing, quacking one called Fred, a tartan one I call Scottie, a punky one called Sid, a pirate one called Zaraki, a radio one called Linds (after the friend who gave it to me), a normal yellow one called Fred Junior, and a tiny one called mini Fred. There are more, but I have over 20 ducks, so I won't bore everyone any more than I have done!

[Furore]

Not so much these days, but I used to nickname some of the things I used as weapons a few years back. Ol' Trusty the hockey stick and WHAM! my modified baseball bat are the two that come to mind the most.

Oh and to a lesser extend Skull****er the 3-iron.
What can I say, I was a creative kid.

[Dodie16]

I don't name any of my possessions, but I have an aunt and uncle who have a boat they named "The Jabberwocky". I hear that it's bad luck to own a boat and use it if it's unnamed, though I think I probably just heard that in Forrest Gump. Anyway, it wasn't the original name for it, but they had to rechristen it when they got it changed. They had a huge party when they did too.

[Block]

I name my pot smoking paraphernalia.

[CloudTide]

My guitars' names are Phil and Suave
Nothing else really

[Unknown Entity]

I have a stuffed kangaroo toy which I called "Kanga". I've had her since I was about six, and couldn't think of anything else to call her at the time. I don't even know why I decided to call it a 'her' - probably because of the baby in it's pouch, now I think about it.

I have a wooden artists model in my room which I use to store my necklaces, bracelets and hair-ties, and I called that Bob.

... Bob tends to be a very popular name when it comes to me naming things... >>;

[Pete]

My car is Wanda and my dads van is Sheila. No particular or sentimental reason for either.

I call my softball bat "baby", and I treat it like royalty.

[Cheesevixen]

I always think you're talking about a chick when you post anything about Christine. Ha.

Yeah I named my vibrator Mr Goodguy.....IDK why; have plenty of good guys.....just had it suggested to me by a friend one day and couldn't get it out of my head. Oh Well....oh and he is a year old....blue...and sparkly.

[Josh_R]

My bass guitar's name is Veronica. No reason in particular.

I also nicknamed my feet. Mr. Thunder, and his good friend Mr. Lightning.

[kurohime]

I named my dark spirit gaurdian Azel Cross+.

and my ps2 "dumbass machine" because it's acting like a retard.

[Jin]

But most of the women I meet already have names...

[Rhaps]

I named my electric guitar Pheolix, my acoustic Irena, and I named my PSP Fatass lol
Also, I yell at my stuff, like if I put my bag down somewhere I point at it and say "Sit! Stay!" and walk back
Related, my friend named his favourite tennis ball Penn the Third. Penn the Third gets beat sometimes. . . . should I call child services?!

[Xithor]

I never used to name anything and really I have only named one thing and that is my car. Went through a Mickey D's with my girlfriend and she always gets the mighty kids meal which is kinda embarrassing but I said I'd name my car whatever the toy was called so she pulled it out and it was a little dog from some movie that was out and he was named Romeo. So my Mazda Tribute is now called Romeo and sits above my rear view window, wouldn't even notice him if I didn't point it out.

[The Dark Crystal]

I name my pot smoking paraphernalia.

Ha ha Nice!


I named one of my tobacco pipes Hakunamatata

[RamesesII]

I named my car Uterus, for no sentimental reason I just thought a wagon can be called a ***** wagon and mine is a ute so I will call it the Uterus, I have also been known to call it a Tufflux because it is a Toyota Hilux. I named my Triple distilled Bunderberg rum bottle the Silver bullet, because it is the best Rum I have ever had but unfortunately it isn't made anymore but I still have the bottle I like to collect my spirit bottles.

[Sinister]

When I was six I named my mom's Toyota Previa "Silver Bullet" after the movie staring Gary Busey. I had to give my PS3 and PSP names so I called them respectively Master Control Program and BiT.

-Sin

[Meier Link]

My boys are called "giggle" and "berry", seeing they are practically for show now I can consider them just a posetion and now I am not talking about the kids if you didn't already catch that.

I have an aluminum base ball bat under my bed that is dubbed "the enforcer".

I use to call my wifes boobs the "fun pillows" which I tend to have posetion over every once in a while.

My 85 GMC Seirra Classic was called "the bitch" because I drove her like one.

Yeah so I guess that is some of the names I have given things in the past. No cenimental reason for it, well with exception of the boobs.

[kurohime]

I name my pot smoking paraphernalia.

That is awesome man, but so do me and my mom. we all have problems, dont judge me.

[Block]

That is awesome man, but so do me and my mom. we all have problems, dont judge me.

Every stoner I know names the pipes... it's an unwritten law. And you know how good stoners are at following the law.

[Padraic]

My Pet Rock has a name. It is Dr Stone... I've had him since I was little... but I lost him... No but I actually name things... mostly just what they are and adding a y at the end...

[Ushinatta]

My car is called The Chibi, because it is small.

I have a plant I used to call Robert, but then changed it to Roberta so it would flower more. It didn't really work.

[Andromeda]

Not sure if it really counts calling stuffed animals by their animal species and adding the suffix -y or -ie to it, but that's what I did with all of my stuffed animals up until I was about like twelve or something. >.> Hey when you only other friend is your sister stuffed help. Though after a while I stopped because you can't really call the two stuffed animal raccoons Raccoony, it just confuses them.

I still have a few of them, childhood memories more than anything else. Though I'll always keep Raccoony around because it is the only thing I have that belonged to my step-sister who used to live with us for a year or two before her mother pulled a fast one on us and didn't return her one Christmas. So I keep it as a memory of her. It was also probably why I started collecting Raccoons in general. Never have been able to explain why I like Raccoons, I just think they're cute, but I'd suspect that there's something to do with my step-sister as well.

Other than that I don't really name things that I own. I already have to think up names for my characters in the stories I write as it is.