Comments on: Tip Tuesday Contest – Name my Van

By: Pam

Pam — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 03:30:00 +0000

Petunia is also good.

By: Catez

Catez — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:55:00 +0000

Marmaduke.

By: Pam

Pam — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 22:30:00 +0000

Okey dokey. Vanessa. Surcie, I like it, too. Simple. Refined, in a slightly sofisticated way. So sorry to all the Vanessa’a out there. You have a great name. Which reminds me, I let the kids name our golden retriever. I thought they’d name her some great creative name…but no. Sandy. Plain Old Sandy. But the worst of that is that we had a neighbor girl friend named Sandy, who turned out to be the veterinary assistant where we take our dog! When she asked what the dogs’ name was, to my embarrassment, I had to say “Sandybutthekidsnamedher, itwasn’tmyfault!” She smiled and said that half the dogs out there are named Sandy–and that, btw, is my second choice! Sandy! It’s the right color, will have lots of sand if you fill it up with kids (and neighbor kids, you live on the coast, for goodness sake!) And sorry to KayLynn’s lovely roomate, Vanessa, if you happen to like that one!You could always say…so sorry, “myvansmademedoit!”

By: kaylang

kaylang — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 22:46:00 +0000

Hello dear friend! Well, naming inanimate objects is one of my favorite things of all time! So here it goes: Mortimer the Minivan (you could call him Morty for short), Vantasy, Frank (a classic), Skiffington (or Skiff for short)…hmm, I’ll continue pondering. Good luck w/ the decision-making! These are all great names!

By: elliespen

elliespen — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 03:59:00 +0000

Hm. Not so much of an exporter/importer as a transporter, though. It works.

By: jessica

jessica — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 02:50:00 +0000

I too love to make spreadsheets to aid in decision making! And because you can never have enough data on a spreadsheet, I’ll give you another name to mull over in addition to my previous suggestion…

Art Vandelay

…This one would only work if the Daring Young Family speaks “Seinfeld”-ese in addition to Chinese and Pig-Latin. Roughly translated from the original Seinfeld-ese, “Vandelay” means a catch-all; a problem solver. Sounds sort of like a minivan, no?

By: surcie

surcie — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 00:55:00 +0000

I’m back.
Someone suggested Vanna. Did you know that Vanna MEANS “golden” in Cambodian? Of course you did!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 23:17:00 +0000

How about going with an acronym. Something like LAMAR.

Laylee
And
Magoo’s
Awesome
Ride

Of course, this could be difficult when additional offspring are added to the mix.
So my 2nd pick would have to be Sputnik. Just sounds like a cool car name to me.

By: Mom

Mom — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 23:01:00 +0000

Whenever I think of naming anything, I think of your little sister (2 1/2 at the time) walking around the house chanting, “I want to name the puppy Ralph. I want to name the puppy Ralph……..” We never did name a puppy Ralph, but it’s still a great all purpose name if you’re stuck.

By: House Warden

House Warden — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 21:16:00 +0000

Well I’ve been thinking about this a lot, and unfortunately I’m not all that creative. We just bought a brand new mini-van (I’m remain from brand dropping, so I don’t show favortism) in April and the hubby and I haven’t even discussed about naming it, although his car he had names. You seem to be very divers people. So I know it’s not great, but how about Cultured Cruiser. Good luck with the choices. BTW you seem very popular. I’m new to blogging and wish I would get as many responses as you do? How do you do it? I got your blog from my dear old high school buddy from the good old NW Princess Mom.