Naming cars and ...... was: Re: [Shotimes] SHOs are totally UNIQUE!!!!!!!

[Kerby Haltom]

Feng Shue?  I remember them.  Rock group from the '80s.

I wait a minute, that was Wang Chung...   :-)

Kerby

At 05:32 PM 3/9/04 -0800, George Fourchy wrote:
>On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 16:03:09 -0500, Mike.Wojton@us.o-i.com wrote:
>
> >I still put the whole "soul" thing up there with giving your car a name.
> >To each his (or her) own though.  : )
>
>Giving inanimate objects a unique identity didn't start with cars.  What about
>naming ships after people?  How long has THAT been going on?  What about 
>World War
>II airplanes being given names by their pilots?
>
>Remember "Picadilly Lily", from 12 O'clock High?  What about "Enola 
>Gay"?  Every
>P-51, P-40, P-47, P-38, P-39, and even F-4s and A-1s from Vietnam had 
>names, because
>their pilots felt that the airplane was actively participating in the 
>mission, and
>protecting them from harm.
>
>Heck, we even had a C-5 named ''Miss Piggy'', because it was used in 
>testing for
>landing on dirt strips.....lotsa weight there, and we needed to know it 
>could be
>done.  That particular airplane, 680223, and I had a special relationship 
>(shaddup!)
>in addition to that....in two 4500 mile trips across the Pacific in a row, 
>a week
>apart, Travis AFB was within 1/4 mile of where we thought it would 
>be.  Back in the
>'80s, that was a significant feat....the normal navigation error after a 
>trip that
>long was 30 or 40 miles, which is enough to get into FAA 
>trouble.  Normally, if we
>started drifting that far off, we'd correct the computers.  But that 
>airplane's
>single inertial unit (totally different from the triples out there now in 
>747s) was
>_perfect_.   That's how it went....the airplane protected us from getting into
>trouble, and also showed how good a crew we were, so we gave it credit for the
>effort.
>
>A car is the same thing.  Lowrider hasn't had any mechanical trouble, to 
>speak of,
>and has been dirt cheap to enjoy, so I give it credit for that, and for 
>protecting
>my wallet.  This black car is starting out 'new', so I give it the same 
>credit,
>since its ancestor did so well.  I know that my trust in it will be justified.
>
>It's a 'soul' thing.....maybe Feng Shue as well!
>
>;-)
>
>George
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