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Re: Name that car
« Reply #15 on: June 16, 2005, 12:15:04 AM »
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Re: Name that car
« Reply #16 on: June 16, 2005, 03:04:24 AM »
I'm vacillating between Throckmorton and Iorek Byrnison. Throckmorton is cool, but Iorek Byrnison may be easier to remember, and it's cool that he has a title that has such a fun sound, panzerbjorn.
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Re: Name that car
« Reply #17 on: June 16, 2005, 07:17:05 AM »
I vote Throckmorton.

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Re: Name that car
« Reply #18 on: June 16, 2005, 11:46:41 AM »
How about Steel or Shadowmonger. oo, oo, or maybe Shining Blades of Wool (that last one is a TLE reference). Grey Hound (hound for the backfiring--not exactly a hound sound, but still). Misty Moon. Three Blind Mice (you know, gray mice). Saturday Night's Fury. Okay, so these are all way random, but I like random.

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Re: Name that car
« Reply #19 on: June 16, 2005, 11:55:45 AM »
For a Plate?  
For a Jeep?
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Re: Name that car
« Reply #20 on: June 16, 2005, 12:09:16 PM »
I still like Throckmorton. ('Course, I did suggest it.) But it sounds like your Jeep is going to come down and pound on someone.

Personally, I think that Throckmorton is easier to remember and pronounce. It kind of rolls off your tongue--and I'm not saying that just because it was my suggestion. You pronounce it like it is spelled. I liked Philip Pullman's name for the bear, Iorek Byrnison, and how he had a whole culture for the panzerbjorne, but I found their names difficult to pronounce. That did create a nice, foreign, non-human feel of a culture in the book, but I think it is still a little confusing as a name of a car. How do you say Iorek? Is it I-O-rick? Or E-rick? Or I-wreck? I suppose it doesn't matter, but I like the simplicity and power of  Throckmorton!

Then again, it is always fun to have a story behind naming your car. I do. So perhaps the story behind Iorek Byrnison, that he is a warrior polar bear from a YA fantasy novel, is more interesting than, "Some girl I know suggested Throckmorton."
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Re: Name that car
« Reply #21 on: June 16, 2005, 12:14:54 PM »
This was a quote I posted over in Best Quotes Lately, from Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman. It seemed appropriate to repeat here:

"Newt's car was a Wasabi. He called it Dick Turpin, in the hope that one day someone would ask him why."

That is why you name your car. At least, that is why I named my car what I did--to have a story to tell.
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Re: Name that car
« Reply #22 on: June 16, 2005, 12:19:09 PM »
It's pronounced. Eric. Like all perfect words.

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Re: Name that car
« Reply #23 on: June 16, 2005, 01:06:49 PM »
I think whatever you name your car, it should reflects a little of your own nature and also tell something about the characteristic of the car.
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Re: Name that car
« Reply #24 on: June 16, 2005, 01:43:58 PM »
See, my nature has always been to never name a car. I never even named my stuffed animals. To link it to the creativity topic, I was really not all that creative a kid in that sphere.

I could name it something like the Jabberwock, which I have hanging on my wall. Well, the poem about the Jabberwock, i.e., Jabberwocky. Or, Frumious Bandersnatch!
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Re: Name that car
« Reply #25 on: June 16, 2005, 01:56:04 PM »
my sister-in-law named her car "Wilson" which is dry and dull. My mother-in-law named her car "Todd Pod" because she uses it to haul around her son. That name annoys me to no end.

My father named his van the Klingon Battle Cruiser.
I loved that van after that.

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Re: Name that car
« Reply #26 on: June 16, 2005, 02:48:45 PM »
You could call it "the Bandersnatch".  That'd be great.
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Re: Name that car
« Reply #27 on: June 16, 2005, 06:33:28 PM »
Beware the Jabberwock, my son,
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch,
shun the Jub Jub Bird, and the Frumious Bandersnatch...
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Re: Name that car
« Reply #28 on: June 16, 2005, 06:48:33 PM »
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
   The frumious Bandersnatch!

(Actually.) But you were close.
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Re: Name that car
« Reply #29 on: June 16, 2005, 06:51:13 PM »
Oh come on, give me some credit, considering I have only read it once, and it was over a year ago.
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