What’s in a Name?

I think the “birthday barrage” is over for awhile.  It is amazing how many April, May and June birthdays there are in our family.

Grasshopper No.5 leased a Honda CRV recently.  She said she named it “Carleasee” as a tribute to the “dragon lady” from the HBO series Game of Thrones.  I know I mispelled the dragon lady’s name but the pronunciation should be correct.  No.5 acquired her car through a lease arrangement.  And like the dragon lady, the car is a “bad-a–” machine.  From the standpoint of being creative, I’d give Grasshopper No.5 an “A” for creativity.

I was asked recently what I named my “used” German car.  I didn’t know that cars had to have a name but I figured I could match No.5 with creativity.  My car is white.  It has great engine performance.  It gets 37 miles to the gallon on the highway.  Developing a car name should be easy.

My first pass for a name was “Hooch” which is a nickname for bootleg booze or more appropriately “white lightning”.  Yeah, that is my car.  White in color.  It goes fast.  The idea seems good but it takes too much explanation.

And then yesterday I was beginning to catch up on the AMC TV series “Breaking Bad”.  The lead character, a high school chemistry teacher gone astray by producing “crack”, is named Walter White.  I could name my car Wally White, a “bad-a–” character from Breaking Bad.  Get it?  White car.  “Bad-a–“.  Edgy.

In truth, I think Grasshopper No.5 has me beat with Carleasee.

I’m open to suggestion.  My car needs a name identity.

Love,

Dad