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Title: Help name my next typewriter
Post by: xsphat on Tue, 14 July 2009, 21:07:48: Just as the subject says. I appreciate references to Buddhism, the 1980's, horror movies, pop culture, Star Trek, etc. Not into Star Wars, big budget summer movies, no LOTR references, so you get my drift. Look at the names in my sig for an idea of what I want.

[EDIT] it has to be a female name, like a sailboat or a gun.

I ordered a typewriter today that is going to cost me in the neighborhood of $600 since it is a total restore job and it won't be ready for 2 months. When I get it it will be like brand new. It's a Hermes 3000 and this is what they look like:

(http://files.getdropbox.com/u/76433/For%20message%20boards%20and%20ebay/Hermes%203000.jpg)

This is not an actual pic of the one I am buying, btw.
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Post by: DrunkenDonut on Tue, 14 July 2009, 21:25:52: Kirby, after the vacuum of the same name. Very much 80's looking like 50's streamline.

The Nintendo character also comes to mind as well. Come to think of it, I wonder if they were thinking of the vacuum too, seeing as how Kirby's skills work.
Title: Help name my next typewriter
Post by: xsphat on Tue, 14 July 2009, 21:34:46: Forgot to mention, it has to be a female name. Sorry, I suck. I'll edit the first post.

Kirby isn't bad, and I think it's a she since it's pink, so good one.
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Post by: xsphat on Tue, 14 July 2009, 21:53:04: Oops, scratch that. Kirby is a boy's name.
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Post by: xsphat on Tue, 14 July 2009, 22:10:25: I have a 1967 Royal Mercury typewriter and it is just foul.
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Post by: wellington1869 on Tue, 14 July 2009, 22:44:16: Quote from: ripster;102630
Circe was a nymph.

Show Image
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Circe_Offering_the_Cup_to_Odysseus.jpg/180px-Circe_Offering_the_Cup_to_Odysseus.jpg)

Hmm... she turned Ulysses's men to pigs.

I'd be a pig around her too :-D
:roll:
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Post by: wellington1869 on Tue, 14 July 2009, 22:48:09: Quote

Hermes' symbols were the cock and the tortoise

How about 'tippy'?
(http://jaggedsmile.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/tippy.jpg)
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Post by: Rajagra on Wed, 15 July 2009, 00:01:46: Looks like a Bertha to me!
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Post by: xsphat on Wed, 15 July 2009, 00:30:26: Bertha, finally a contender. And the name Zooey freaks me out, as do most of them I have met and all were call girls or strippers or Catholics, so that might explain why I loath them so.

And all of my riters are named after real girls:
Capt Katherine Janeway
BB Kiddo from Kill Bill 2
Ellen Page

My wife named Scarlett but I like to think of it as Johanson, so there you have it. As long as it's not someone like Gauge or Aurora Snow I'll be fine.
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Post by: xsphat on Wed, 15 July 2009, 01:51:27: I was thinking of another Star Trek reference: How about calling it Mr. Savik after the Vulcan Kristy Alley played in one of the movies? That way it would have have a male sound but still be a female name.
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Post by: xsphat on Wed, 15 July 2009, 02:56:01: Zarabeth. I'd pee on her.
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Post by: vils on Wed, 15 July 2009, 05:25:46: Wendy, after Jack Torrance's wife in "The Shining".

(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/TypewrighterCarrage2.jpg)
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Post by: o2dazone on Wed, 15 July 2009, 08:55:30: equally as ugly lol

expanding on the BB Kiddo name - Beatrix isn't horrible, although it's a very impressionable name, like Bertha. (two things come to mind, one - the mob in Super Mario Bros, and two - my Hispanic neighbor growing up that swore like a sailor)
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Post by: wellington1869 on Wed, 15 July 2009, 09:12:57: I think i'd love almost anyone who wore that outfit, lol

Quote

Blondes in fur in a warm cave. Who needs a computer?

amen.
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Post by: wellington1869 on Wed, 15 July 2009, 09:14:39: Quote from: xsphat;102685
Zarabeth. I'd pee on her.

hold on, with xs this might actually mean he likes her ;D
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Post by: wellington1869 on Wed, 15 July 2009, 09:15:34: Quote from: ripster;102717
Be careful what you say Welly.

hahahahaha
'betty' always manages to look decent ;)
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Post by: timw4mail on Wed, 15 July 2009, 09:20:39: Quote from: ripster;102722
I'm more worried about the guy on the left. Notice his club looks excited.

I'm going to have to stop reading your posts...
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Post by: xsphat on Wed, 15 July 2009, 11:40:04: Well, ;Mrs. Torrence is a great name, and I would have already used it, but my brother had a satanmic cat named that.

And yes, Welly is correct about me saying I'd pee on her. Yes that means I think she's hot.

Keep the names coming.
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Post by: xsphat on Wed, 15 July 2009, 13:04:36: Bond girls is a great idea. I like Christmas Jones and a couple of the more clever and less sexual ones.
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Post by: vils on Wed, 15 July 2009, 15:40:00: Moenypenny?
Title: Help name my next typewriter
Post by: CX23882 on Wed, 15 July 2009, 17:10:15: How about something exotic:
Yadira - female name meaning 'friend' in Hebrew, and can also mean 'jade' (chosen because your new typwriter will become your new typing 'friend', and also has a green/jade kind of colour)
Dunia - female name meaning 'life' in Hebrew (chosen because this typewriter will be getting a new life after restoration)

Okay, they're tenuous, but it's the best I have :)
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Post by: timw4mail on Wed, 15 July 2009, 17:13:35: Maybe I'm the weird one out, but I don't see the point of naming inanimate objects...
Title: Help name my next typewriter
Post by: xsphat on Thu, 16 July 2009, 01:48:48: Quote from: vils;102795
Moenypenny?

This is my number one choice for now, but I would spell it Moneypenny.
Title: Help name my next typewriter
Post by: xsphat on Thu, 16 July 2009, 01:49:56: Quote from: CX23882;102804
How about something exotic:
Yadira - female name meaning 'friend' in Hebrew, and can also mean 'jade' (chosen because your new typwriter will become your new typing 'friend', and also has a green/jade kind of colour)

This name is currently in the number 2 spot.
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Post by: vils on Thu, 16 July 2009, 08:02:20: Quote from: xsphat;102843
but I would spell it Moneypenny.

So would I:redface:
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Post by: Shawn Stanford on Thu, 16 July 2009, 11:37:16: Quote from: timw4mail;102805
Maybe I'm the weird one out, but I don't see the point of naming inanimate objects...

I just use it as a convenient shorthand. Rather than saying 'the 944', I just say, 'Jake'. One syllable versus five...
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Post by: Shawn Stanford on Thu, 16 July 2009, 13:10:14: Quote from: ripster;102881
Bud.
Show Image
(http://images.askmen.com/video/2008_feb/feb14.jpg)

Nice nickname for a keyboard. (http://www.break.com/index/will-ferrel-bud-light-commercial.html)

I'll see your Will Ferrel and raise you a Wendy O. Williams:
(http://media.drawerb.com/wp/2007/10/wendyowilliamsaplas80uy.jpg)
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Post by: xsphat on Thu, 16 July 2009, 13:21:26: You guys need to be stopped.
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Post by: wellington1869 on Thu, 16 July 2009, 13:48:02: Quote from: ripster;102906
Welly has artificial nubbies too.

..and fur. :D
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Post by: xsphat on Thu, 16 July 2009, 14:17:42: Quote from: xsphat;102903
You guys need to be stopped.

Still true.
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Post by: Shawn Stanford on Thu, 16 July 2009, 14:59:37: Quote from: ripster;102923
Aw c'mon. "Wicked Wendy" would be a [strike]breat[/strike] great name for a typewriter.

'Wendy O'. A great 70s/80s reference...
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Post by: xsphat on Thu, 16 July 2009, 15:17:55: Fine, but that doesn't make it cool. It's not like I am going to give this a name that makes me want to run. If that were the case, I would just name it after my stepmother and put a bomb in it that will blow up as I'm pissing on it as falls off a cliff.

Keep them coming, but Moneypenny is still in the lead, but I was thinking maybe a Bond/Geekhack nod — I could just call it M.
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Post by: xsphat on Thu, 16 July 2009, 17:21:18: Quote from: webwit;102950
webwit.

So dude, you're a chick? Well. It has to be a female name.
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Post by: bigpook on Thu, 16 July 2009, 19:57:00: how about Esther, Ruth, Bertha, Gertrude, Philamina, Betsey, Betty, or LaWanda?
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Post by: wellington1869 on Thu, 16 July 2009, 20:38:36: Quote from: bigpook;102980
how about Esther, Ruth, Bertha, Gertrude, Philamina, Betsey, Betty, or LaWanda?

I vote for LaWanda. (The capital "W" is key). ;D
Title: Help name my next typewriter
Post by: xsphat on Thu, 16 July 2009, 21:07:41: Quote from: bigpook;102980
how about Esther, Ruth, Bertha, Gertrude, Philamina, Betsey, Betty, or LaWanda?

Nope. I have dated an Esther, a Ruth, a Bertha, a Gertrude, a Philamina, a Betsey, 3 Bettys and a LaWanda.
Title: Help name my next typewriter
Post by: xsphat on Thu, 16 July 2009, 21:12:10: Quote from: ripster;102974
Moneypenny iz mucho better.

I have to agree. Moneypenny is going to be hard to beat.