I think I only ever named my jeep in the army: "Yankee Clipper"
Mind you, when read from the front, the word "Yankee" was on the right. Where the Captain sat. The Captain from Georgia Tech. The Captain from Georgia Tech who would scrape "Yankee" off the window whenever he had a razorblade handy for the task.
Snerk! I can understand how that captain might object. :-D
My only foray into vehicle-naming happened while in the Army, too. I called my M2 Bradley either "Bitch" - most often, especially at maintenance time - or "That Huge F***ing Target" while trying to use it as intended.
Airborne Rangers have extreme difficulties doing anything with armored vehicles other than calling air-strikes on them, you see. PMCS on my boots was easy, and I can hide behind a tree. Neither is true with an M2 Bradley. ;-)
FYI - Siggie is short for Sigil, one of several names I go by. It is O's pet name for me. :)
(I smoked for a whopping two weeks in college. I was inhaling lead fumes from sautering lead came, so I figured I might as well inhale something theoretically pleasurable. I bummed off dorm-mates for two weeks before they held an intervention, saying that I was one of two women on the entire floor that didn't smoke, and they were NOT going to let me start! They cut me off cold, and that was that! About ten years ago, I took a drag to remind myself how nasty it was, but I'm pretty darned sure that has cured me for life.)
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"Yankee Clipper"
Mind you, when read from the front, the word "Yankee" was on the right. Where the Captain sat. The Captain from Georgia Tech. The Captain from Georgia Tech who would scrape "Yankee" off the window whenever he had a razorblade handy for the task.
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My only foray into vehicle-naming happened while in the Army, too. I called my M2 Bradley either "Bitch" - most often, especially at maintenance time - or "That Huge F***ing Target" while trying to use it as intended.
Airborne Rangers have extreme difficulties doing anything with armored vehicles other than calling air-strikes on them, you see. PMCS on my boots was easy, and I can hide behind a tree. Neither is true with an M2 Bradley. ;-)
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FWIW, *I* drive a red car (minivan), and MY nickname is Siggie.
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(discretion being the better part of valour and all that)
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(I smoked for a whopping two weeks in college. I was inhaling lead fumes from sautering lead came, so I figured I might as well inhale something theoretically pleasurable. I bummed off dorm-mates for two weeks before they held an intervention, saying that I was one of two women on the entire floor that didn't smoke, and they were NOT going to let me start! They cut me off cold, and that was that! About ten years ago, I took a drag to remind myself how nasty it was, but I'm pretty darned sure that has cured me for life.)
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I had a 350 Four as a first bike, back in the 80s.
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