Car

[jack]

I have a car. Eek. It's very shiny. It needs a name.

It's black, and has a workmanline molded-plastic look (Ford Fiesta 06). I suggested "Lagos", being a character from Snow Crash associated with Sumerian mythology, and sounding a bit like "Logo" and "Lego". Mum suggested Yahweh based on the number plate, which I felt was appropriate at the same time as being too horribly inappropriate for me to consider. The other end of the number plate is FG, so maybe some sort of mist god? Or some sort of sleek black animal such as Coypu?

Any further suggestions?

Comments

[seryn]

The naming of cars is a serious matter... :-D


If it was blue, I'd suggest looking at things from the Epic of Gilgamesh which was rumored to have been inscribed on lapis lazuli tablets.

Since you said it is black and very shiny, I might suggest something related to the metallic element osmium. I found searching to be vastly improved once I was able to specify a black metal instead of searching for "black metal" which gets a tremendous musical tangent.

[jack]

Thank you, I definitely like both. I'm still considering "Enkidu".

[seryn]

I must have hit on something then, but if you lose your car, I hope you don't start a Voldemortian quest.

[jack]

The naming of cars is a serious matter... :-D

For that matter, I could do much worse than taking a name from T. S. Elliot directly, although I fear enough people know the poems it wouldn't be _very_ unique.

[seryn]

Ha! two funnies in the same day. I was on a roll!

I was going to say something about police cars being more likely for Jellicle cats ("Jellicle cats are black." "And white!") but that's probably not going to translate since the police cars on British TV that I've seen have been largely that day-glo yellow color.

I admit that the last car I named, I named with a mnemonic for the license plate. My current car's license number has letters which would require a mixed linguistic effort... probably between Welsh and Bantu.

Normally my naming of things is for knitting projects. Named knitting projects get worked on, unnamed ones do not. I try to name them after obscure mythology. Most of the independent artist made yarns have odd names too. So, a mundane example, green yarn called "Sherwood forest" made into a hat, would be a project called, "Robin Hood", but mittens would be called
"Tuckers" (no one really wears mittens, they just tuck them into pockets.)