What's In A Name?
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What's In A Name?
I have never named a car. Even though I anthropomorphize every thing in this Universe, a name has never made any sense to me for a car. The Road Warrior only came about because over the years I have been asking hundreds of people "is your car a weekend putterer or is it a road warrior?" as we decide what level our Itinerant Air-Cooled day is working towards, and everybody looked at my car and agreed well, it had to be a road warrior. I never referred to my own car as Road Warrior, "good morning Road Warrior, let's get to Montana."
But I bought/inherited a bus with a name, The Ruptured Duck, and it just. doesn't. work. for me. The bus in question has spirit, like all of my cars seem to have, and it is much more like a nice huggable beige brown jersey cow (who nonetheless kept kicking me all the way across the country, like I was some sort of disrespected milkmaid).
It is a step away from its ruptured past of various ruptured repairs and ruptured exhaust system that was killing me off with monoxide, and its ruptured exhaust seats, and it is not that kind of a car when it all gets sorted out. It is a slow meandering soft brown bovine cow that somehow manages to get where its going when you're not quite looking, "is that . . . a cow? up there on the mountain ledge?" Even though it has early tough steering and no power brakes, it has a more female quality than either of my later buses ever did/do. I don't get this, maybe because it requires me to have manners out on the interstates, and the other buses were more ready to get scrappy in the left lane? I don't know.
So, for some weird reason, this bus is Chloe, the cow who best not kick me this summer . . . or I WILL turn you into hamburger.
Chloe? No kicking. Good cow, here's some clover.
But I bought/inherited a bus with a name, The Ruptured Duck, and it just. doesn't. work. for me. The bus in question has spirit, like all of my cars seem to have, and it is much more like a nice huggable beige brown jersey cow (who nonetheless kept kicking me all the way across the country, like I was some sort of disrespected milkmaid).
It is a step away from its ruptured past of various ruptured repairs and ruptured exhaust system that was killing me off with monoxide, and its ruptured exhaust seats, and it is not that kind of a car when it all gets sorted out. It is a slow meandering soft brown bovine cow that somehow manages to get where its going when you're not quite looking, "is that . . . a cow? up there on the mountain ledge?" Even though it has early tough steering and no power brakes, it has a more female quality than either of my later buses ever did/do. I don't get this, maybe because it requires me to have manners out on the interstates, and the other buses were more ready to get scrappy in the left lane? I don't know.
So, for some weird reason, this bus is Chloe, the cow who best not kick me this summer . . . or I WILL turn you into hamburger.
Chloe? No kicking. Good cow, here's some clover.
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
- poptop tom
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Re: What's In A Name?
I was hoping you wouldn't go for Elsie.
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How now Brown Cow?
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue, I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace. Where never lark, or even eagle flew. And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod, The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
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Re: What's In A Name?
Happy Birthday, Chloe. Welcome to the world.
yours truly,
Frito. The Potato Chip Truck
yours truly,
Frito. The Potato Chip Truck
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Paul Wolfowitz, speaking of Iraq.
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Re: What's In A Name?
Elsie! That's what I was trying to think of . . . . NOTpoptop tom wrote:I was hoping you wouldn't go for Elsie.
(Chloe was the first name that hit me just under Bessie (barf) in the list under google search "pet cow names")
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
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Re: What's In A Name?
I don't like names either but that screams "Buster Brown".
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Chloe resonates.
Point of clarification for me please. How is Chloe pronounced. Chlo or Chloee, one or two syllables. One option doesn't pass my muster buster! Lines sometimes must be drawn.
Dang, no really, uhmm mutter something vaguely political rant stand sway stagger, ...uhhhh.
Let's just say I hope your choice of pronunciation notches up the resonating of just gosh dern heart felt assurance amping my own myopic self sabotage.
No pressure.
neal
Point of clarification for me please. How is Chloe pronounced. Chlo or Chloee, one or two syllables. One option doesn't pass my muster buster! Lines sometimes must be drawn.
Dang, no really, uhmm mutter something vaguely political rant stand sway stagger, ...uhhhh.
Let's just say I hope your choice of pronunciation notches up the resonating of just gosh dern heart felt assurance amping my own myopic self sabotage.
No pressure.
neal
The slipper has no teeth.
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Re: What's In A Name?
Pronounced Chloee. Slowy Chloe.ruckman101 wrote:Chloe resonates.
Point of clarification for me please. How is Chloe pronounced. Chlo or Chloee, one or two syllables. One option doesn't pass my muster buster! Lines sometimes must be drawn.
Dang, no really, uhmm mutter something vaguely political rant stand sway stagger, ...uhhhh.
Let's just say I hope your choice of pronunciation notches up the resonating of just gosh dern heart felt assurance amping my own myopic self sabotage.
No pressure.
neal
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
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Re: What's In A Name?
Other than early childhood PTSD every time I hear buster . . . the name is already taken.brandt wrote:I don't like names either but that screams "Buster Brown".
Colin
( and the spotted dog is called "Spot" and the fluffy kitty is called "Fluffy"
and the brown bus is called "Bus-ter Brown")
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
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Re: What's In A Name?
"Ruptured Duck" .... perhaps the previous owner tribute to one of the medium bombers in the WWII Doolittle group raid on Tokyo, so-named.
Chloe (Klo-ee) the cow ? Works for me.
Chloe (Klo-ee) the cow ? Works for me.
- dtrumbo
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Re: What's In A Name?
You're correct. Occasionally, this was Mike's avatar.HiRoller wrote:"Ruptured Duck" .... perhaps the previous owner tribute to one of the medium bombers in the WWII Doolittle group raid on Tokyo, so-named.
- Dick
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1978 Riviera Camper. Bone stock GE 2.0L F.I.
1979 Super Beetle convertible.
... as it turns out, it was the coil!
1970 Transporter. 2015cc, dual Weber IDF 40's
1978 Riviera Camper. Bone stock GE 2.0L F.I.
1979 Super Beetle convertible.
... as it turns out, it was the coil!
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- Dick
1970 Transporter. 2015cc, dual Weber IDF 40's
1978 Riviera Camper. Bone stock GE 2.0L F.I.
1979 Super Beetle convertible.
... as it turns out, it was the coil!
1970 Transporter. 2015cc, dual Weber IDF 40's
1978 Riviera Camper. Bone stock GE 2.0L F.I.
1979 Super Beetle convertible.
... as it turns out, it was the coil!
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My favorite, certainly not the Ruptured Duck on the uniforms. I love Nose Art and someday will paint Samantha on my Bus probably like this:dtrumbo wrote:You're correct. Occasionally, this was Mike's avatar.HiRoller wrote:"Ruptured Duck" .... perhaps the previous owner tribute to one of the medium bombers in the WWII Doolittle group raid on Tokyo, so-named.
Colin, if Chloe were to be a figure, what would she look like? Like the Hookem Cow?
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue, I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace. Where never lark, or even eagle flew. And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod, The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
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Re: What's In A Name?
Only when the oil cooler was still leaking . . .Sylvester wrote:Colin, if Chloe were to be a figure, what would she look like? Like the Hookem Cow?
Colin
( it would have to be a sleepy looking cow just above the treeline on a ledge with the big sky behind) (that's what it felt like when I woke up outside of Lake Tahoe in a boulder field and could not figure how this thing got me there the night before)
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles