Since there's a thread about whether your car has a name, I thought that I'd start one on whether your computer has a name. So, what is the name of your computer? I have dubbed mine "Swiftbot."

-Jafin

[ 08-22-2002, 12:47 AM: Message edited by: Jafin ]

<font color=pink>The only name i ever call mine is: "You stupid ****ing piece of god damn ****"

And i'm serious, it likes to freeze at random intervals for no reason [img]tongue.gif[/img] </font>

LOL, that's my computer's nickname! I affectionately call it that when it decides to close the game I'm playing just before I save...

-Jafin

<font color="00cc99">actually it does, 'Slow piece of Sh*T!' lol</font>

I usually call mine "my computer" ;)
When it crashes for no apparent reason though it is dubbed "f**ker"

I call it "no good *#&#^*( piece of worthless *@&!(#&$(@ Shi* @*!" sometimes.

Well when i had my PCs networked, thats my crappy 333MHz with an exellent graphics card and my really good 1.4GHz with a crappy graphics card, we had to name them. so we called tghem after the scutters in red dwarf. just we can't remmember the second ones name [img]tongue.gif[/img] . its Bob and something else. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Mine is EVA, after the C&C AI.

My Confuser...

Because I run a domain at home, mine needed names, so they're all named after Star Trek ships (geek [img]smile.gif[/img] )

Servers -
Defiant
Intrepid

Workstations -
Enterprise
Excelsior
Oberon

Laptop -
Endeavor

Old 486 Systems (that I occasionally still use)
Dauntless
Excalibur

<font color="00cc99">"Hey LB, you wouldn't by any chance have a mac would you? ;) </font>

*edit* oops wrong colour text [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[ 08-22-2002, 09:32 AM: Message edited by: Deathbringer ]

Upgraded to my new baby about 3 months ago - just to play NWN and Morrowind - it's called :

THE GAMES BEAST :D :D :D

My computer is named, after it threatened to format my C: drive if I didn't name it that: "G'araghtarri, the Devourer of Souls!"

Some days I think that I need a gallon of Holy Water and a priest to make my computer safe for use..... I must've pissed it off since not too long ago it decided to kill 30 GB's of HD space, taking with it NWN, Morrowind, Wizardry 8 and some other things.

My ex-wife called it 'my square headed girlfriend'

pleurisding :D

<font color="00cc99">"Hey LB, you wouldn't by any chance have a mac would you? ;) </font>

*edit* oops wrong colour text [img]tongue.gif[/img] </font>[/QUOTE]*ahem*.............. :mad:

hmmm - never named this thing outside of expletives

I shall christen it "The Source" :D

I have a 7 year old pentium 90...
so i call it "THE BEAST".
But we also have a new packard bell 1.2 gig, Which i call "the piece of s**t" because it windows XP, which i hate.

<font color="lightblue">Well, Jarrad, you can`t very well say you like Win 95 can you ?? Oh, that`s right, you do... [img]graemlins/uhoh1.gif[/img] ;) </font>

ROFL!! Good one, will add to list ;)

When it is working well i call it "Master"
When it is not i call it a long list of words that should never be written (or said for that matter)

I am sorry,but I cannot tell you my computer's name. A trillion years of your time would have passed just to pronounce one sylable in it's name. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

<font color="lightblue">Err... translation for the verbally ignorant ?? :eek: </font>

<font color="lightblue">Err... translation for the verbally ignorant ?? :eek: </font></font>[/QUOTE]Not only verbally... ;) I was hoping for the last month or so that you'd notice the embarrassment yourself, but *sigh* I'll have to be a pedant again. :D
If you're going to quote someone, at least try to spell the name correctly, as well as the quote itself. ESPECIALLY when quoting Oscar Wilde... [img]graemlins/nono.gif[/img]

Pleurisding is intranslatable... well I can translate it but you can't really get the connotations and tone if you're not a native speaker of Dutch. We tend to use nasty diseases as swearwords, surely you have hear of pleurisy? So, pleurisding = pleurisy-thing.

[ 08-24-2002, 09:24 AM: Message edited by: Melusine ]

ROFL!! Good one, will add to list ;) </font>[/QUOTE]Didn't know you kept a list. :D Am i in trouble now ? [img]graemlins/showoff.gif[/img]

My iMac: Suzy

My G3 Laptop: Bessy

My X-Box: Came with the name Cupid

My Dreamcast: Ol' Bessy #3

My New Falcon: The Tiny God

<font color="lightblue">Err... translation for the verbally ignorant ?? :eek: </font></font>[/QUOTE]Not only verbally... ;) I was hoping for the last month or so that you'd notice the embarrassment yourself, but *sigh* I'll have to be a pedant again. :D
If you're going to quote someone, at least try to spell the name correctly, as well as the quote itself. ESPECIALLY when quoting Oscar Wilde... [img]graemlins/nono.gif[/img]

Pleurisding is intranslatable... well I can translate it but you can't really get the connotations and tone if you're not a native speaker of Dutch. We tend to use nasty diseases as swearwords, surely you have hear of pleurisy? So, pleurisding = pleurisy-thing.</font>[/QUOTE]Heh- I was hoping someone else pointed it out first so I didn't seem like the pedant. :D

LMAO, you bastard! :D
Pedants have to stick together you know? [img]tongue.gif[/img] ;)

LOL, not unless you're secretly my hyper-intelligent computer posting under the name of Johnny :D
A list of names to call my PC, smart-ass! How could that put you in trouble? I'm grateful for the new addition! ;)

i call mine computer.

[quote]Originally posted by Melusine:

Quote:

Not only verbally... ;) I was hoping for the last month or so that you'd notice the embarrassment yourself, but *sigh* I'll have to be a pedant again. :D If you're going to quote someone, at least try to spell the name correctly, as well as the quote itself. ESPECIALLY when quoting Oscar Wilde... [img]graemlins/nono.gif[/img] Pleurisding is intranslatable... well I can translate it but you can't really get the connotations and tone if you're not a native speaker of Dutch. We tend to use nasty diseases as swearwords, surely you have hear of pleurisy? So, pleurisding = pleurisy-thing.

Lol! Quite apt as Pleurisy feels like someone stabbing you in the chest, over and over, 24 hours a day, for a few weeks... :D

My wife stuck Freddie Prinze Jr and "You go girl!" stickers to mine a while back so I tend to see it as an impetulant teen.

My Polluter is the favorite though...

<font color="00cc99">"Hey LB, you wouldn't by any chance have a mac would you? ;) </font>

*edit* oops wrong colour text [img]tongue.gif[/img] </font>[/QUOTE]<font color=pink>O HELLS no, if i had a mac i would throw it out the window! Well right now its being good, cause im not playing any games, lol :D </font>

I call mine Amber, if anyones read the Chronicals of Amber by Roger Zelazny (Corwin of Amber), if not then Amber is considered the real world, and everything else is a reflection of it, a shadow if you will, our earth, is naught but a shadow of Amber

Since my computer was the center of my universe for a very long time, it was only natural that it was called Amber.

Since the DOS 5.0 days, I named mine 'VANN9000C' (for C: drive) or 'VANN9000D' for the D: drive.. still do it :D

Vann 9000 is a supervan type vehicle I designed in 1985 in one of my comic books I drew up.. and the name stuck.. silly!!

<font color=pink>LOL Dan, how do u pronounce "VANN9000D"? :D </font>

<font color="lightblue">Ok, I am *very* glad that I took that line out of my sig a few days before I noticed this :D
And, actually I haven`t heard of pleurisy... kind of makes me wonder about just what we *are* taught down here :eek: </font>

I call mine "Crimson" it`s from my old days when i played EOB II so i have called all my computers that since [img]tongue.gif[/img]
And i have a server to in a another room who i call "10CC" lol it is pop group that was wery popular in the 1975 to 1983 or something.

[ 08-28-2002, 05:14 AM: Message edited by: Megabot ]

LOL It should be the other way around!
My start-up sound is just the word "Master" I think its from a Star Wars clip (Darth Vader: "In time, you will call me Master")

I used to have the whole clip play but the PC got cocky, developed an attitude and believed it was becoming my master...I had to cut the clip to put it in its place. ;)

My new PC is called "The Beast" as well. With a 120gig HD and forthcoming broadband connection I should be able to keep it well fed [img]graemlins/biglaugh.gif[/img]

I tried to name my PC Augustous, but it objected strongly and wouldn't speak to me for a month. Then it told me that me trying to name it was yet another infringement on its personal space and that if I wanted our relationship to continue I should respect its values. Then it started wildly quoting Germaine Greer and singing "My Way". :D