ACTUAL BUSINESSPERSON CELL-PHONE CONVERSATION OVERHEARD AT AN AIRPORT THIS VERY DAY

"George? Bob. Did you get my email? (pause) Well, did you get a chance to marinate upon it?"

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[Kalyani]

A friend of mine has a red convertible named "Rita", which is short for "Margarita" because nothing mixes quite like alcohol and motor vehicles!

[stash]

There was a safety film that they made us watch in high school. Made by the Ohio Highway Patrol, it was called "Signal 30" which is the OHP code for a fatal crash. Needless to say, "Signal 30" wbagnfac!

[Jeff Meyerson]

Lairbo: Car LaFong. Brilliant! IT'S A GIFT is an all-time favorite.

"Open the door for Mr. Muckle, the blind man!" "What?"

[stash]

I got the name for my previous POS from the Tappet Brothers: it was called "James Bondo."

[Psychocat]

Brian - how's about "Clyde", after "Ahab the Arab"'s camel?

Personally, I have a feisty little red 2001 Celica named "Lucille", after BB King's guitar...

=^..^=

[Miklos]

A slightly wrecked 1963 Falcon Futura Sprint convertible which I rebuilt/restored. Kids named it "The Trash Bucket" since it did not have a usable top for the first couple of months and because the interior was pretty poor.

[Sadie]

I once had a green Hyundai Accent that went by "Sweet Pea" until someone crashed into her. With the big-ass dent and driver side door that would barely open she was re-named "Ding Ding Here Comes The Shit-Mobile"

[MOTW]

"One of those huge, indestructible ones ... it was destroyed in a head-on collision."

Garret - were you in it at the time? Because that would explain a LOT.

*grins and ducks*

[mama]

My mom always named her cars...from
Fifanella ('54 Chevy) to Beulah (Buick) to Alphonsine...I forget the rest of them, but they were all girls...except for Leroy ('65 VW beetle). He was a boy because he had a stick shift...

[mudstuffin]

Back in the eighties when dippin' snuff was popular (no, I did not do that - ecch.) We used to call beat up old cars "spit cans".

[thirdman]

My wife's white buick is referred to as "the big ugly". Her mom's white toyota was called "the little ugly". My car is called "my car".

[Buddha]

Actually, "ruminate" is the word he was going for. As well as meaning the physical act of chewing, it can mean figuratively "chewing" on something, as in, ruminating over the events of the past day. In that context, the word is synonymous with "pondering."

Course, he's still wrong.

[Lily]

See Alex, you need to show your Mom how educational this site is. We have vocabulary here too.

[Kauai]

Dave, are you sure he didn't say, "Did you get the emu I sent?

"Marinated Emu" is one of my favorite dishes and wbagnfarb.

[TxGal]

Brian,

I'm not original....my van is named "The Van"..although I do sometimes call it "The Gas 'N' Go" or "McDonald's on Wheels" (lots of little children), so I'd probably just call the Mazda "The Trib" (short for Tribute). Or "Tribby" or "Tribble".

k,
I love Futurama. We call the baby "Nibbler" or "Nibblerette" bc she eats everything and there seems to be dark matter in her diaper. I was very sad when it was cancelled...but there's always Adult Swim at Cartoon Network....

[MeL]

My car (93 Nissan 240sx) ROCKS! However it does not have a name. Although I have threatened death upon anyone that harms it in any way.

The van my mom had when I learned to drive we always lovingly referred to as "THE TANK!" Man that was like a spaceship on wheels. 92 Chevy Lumina Van. eesh!

[Avo]

Let the State name your car.

When we got a minivan the state gave it a license plate containing BPY. We've never had a negative comment about naming her "Bippie", and she seems to be just fine with it.

[Smoodle]

I had a white monte carlo in college, which I hated. We called it Moby.

My mom's car all through my childhood was Fred, my dad's Otto, both Fiats. My aunt later stayed with us for a year, got a icky green Fiat, we named it Kermit.

My current car, a Miata, never really settled into a name. Can't say why.

So you see.

Smoodle

[MeL]

Miata's are really expensive go karts. No offense smoodle. If I didn't have more than one friend, I'd buy one.

[Doug Brockmeier]

My mom named her car, a 1979 Mercury I think (it doesn't really matter)--and if this is the name of some character in a major movie or novel or infamous political scandal, forgive me--but I swear she named it "Mergatroid."

[Lmd33]

He meant 'marinate' because they were cooking up a deal. Sheesh!

[Miss C]

so I'm new to this...yall seem like fun people and I'm a big Dave Barry fan...just thought I'd add names of cars I/friends have had:

1985 blue Toyota Cressida: Lucille
2000 Dodge Caravan: "The Rad Van"
1998 white Chevy Lumina: "Cover Girl" (because she rode "easy, breezy"...)

[k]

TxGal: I like Futurama but the BF is a much bigger fan than I am. I'll take Family Guy over Futurama in the Brilliant Cancelled Animated Series category anyday :)

Doug: Murgatroid was a women's name for a few hundred years (still is, I suppose, just no one ever names their daughter that anymore), and the catchphrase of cartoon cat (from Yogi Bear) Snagglepuss was "Heavens to Murgatroid!" I'm not sure what the origin of that phrase is (and in searching, it appears that some people are at least naming themselves pseudonomically "Murgatroid"), and I just hit the end of my interest in researching the matter, but there you have it, for what it's worth.

[Doug Brockmeier]

Thank you for explaining that. By the way, Family Guy is my favorite tv show ever, more than I Love Lucy, Baseball Tonight, The Price Is Right, and Alvin and the Chipmunks.

[djtonyb]

Doug:

Family guy has got to be the most subversive, fun, out there to the max cartoon that I have ever seen. I've always been a fan, but a friend let me borrow the complete collection on DVD, and I don't think I'll ever be right again. I've heard rumor that they're actually going to revive it with some new episodes, but I'm not holding my breath. Alex Borstein should be given an Emmy for some of the writing she has done on that show, but I'm sure it's a little too over the top for the big TV mucky-mucks to give her any recognition of her brilliance.

[Doug Brockmeier]

I have both DVDs, but I love them. I can't wait til it comes back. I think they're doing 35 more episodes beginning early next year. I agree that Borstein should've won something, because she's a genius, and Seth Green was great as Chris also. MacFarlane won I know at least one for the voice of Stewie, and deserves every bit of praise he gets. I honestly didn't believe that he does the majority of the voices on the show for a long time. I hope they keep those three as the core. Meg they can get anyone to play, because she's just an average teenage dirtbag, baby.

[Buddha]

Punky! I didn't see you come in. If you see this, let's keep things less confusing by conversating in the other thread.

[marlodianne]

Brain: I say go with 'Mojo'

You'll never get tired of saying "I got my Mojo working" or remarking how you don't want people to steal your Mojo or (if wandering around a parking lot forgeting where you parked) "I've lost my Mojo!"

[luckybug]

One friend named her car Stan. If you remember the movie Gone in 60 Seconds, all the cars were given girl's names. Did they give a reason why? I don't remember . . .
My Sunbird was dubbed Ramona (after the book character), but mostly it's referred to as 'Are We There Yet'?
Another friend named his dishwashing machine Rosalita, but refuses to name his fish, his chinchillas, and now his new puppy.

[V-Square]

Gilbert and Sullivan also used Murgatroyd as the surname of a family of evil noblemen in their operetta, "Ruddigore." It's shared by a few particularly memorable characters, so I can see a G&S freak like me using it for their car or something. And yeah, it just sounds funny, too.

[Sharlit]

*sigh* far too many entries in the Brilliant Cancelled Animated Series category...

Car names... cars with a lot of character deserve names. My mom's '95 Mercury Mystique was, predictably, called the Mercury Mistake. It's a good thing she won it, because I'm sure she's paid full price for it with all the repairs it's needed in the past few years. It's also a charming shade of green that Ford named Seafoam, which became another moniker.

My favorite car name & the one I'd recommend is Zippy. Ontario licence plates consisted of, until a few years ago, three numbers and three letters (now it's four letters and three numbers). My best friend's brother had a fun old station wagon with the plate letters ZPY. I think it's a great name. Plus, I'm a Zippy the Pinhead fan. So, you can all marinate on those suggestions. ; )