Happy Non-Demoninationl Festivity Dy!

[samvara]

Did Christmas eve with neighbours, we were all sitting around outside chatting then caved to the inevitable and organised a dinner party.

Christmas morning at dog beach BBQ's with massive clan of dog lovers - oh the running, fetching, sniffing and shameless mooching for bacon.

I have a car! Yups, Me. For those who care it's a 1999 TOYOTA RAV4 SXA11R Wagon Cruiser 5dr Man 5sp 4x4 2.0i and is dark green with silver bits. The woofer has given it the snuffle of approval (which involves still being able to drop damp tennis balls down my neck when I'm driving). Toyota gave me wine and chocolate too - the things I have to do to be wined and dined. Sheesh.

Now taking suggestions for names.

Comments

[evilmattikinz.livejournal.com]

I think you should call your new contrivance

!terios

(the ! being pronounced "not" as the C programmer in you of course knows)

Or perhaps The Unteriosity (or ++unteriosity?)

Or Roomagnet?

Or Car?

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

You swine; I am not admitting to knowing anything about programming languages. The RAV4 is *deeply* hurt by your insinuations of inferiority and is not in the slightest bit attractive to 'roos. At all. Ever.

[evilmattikinz.livejournal.com]

Did I suggest that your Rav4 *was* a terios, no I think not. As for the driver's magnetic attraction for large bouncing rats...

Perhaps you should call the car Emily or Margaret. Some sensitive girls name so she can go and hide in the corner when someone thinks about saying anything that can be construed as an insult?

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

I can't help my animal magnetism - although I have to admit my girlish dreams didn't feature giant rodents.

I would be more able to believe you if I wasn't starting at a large pink bus. It somehow detracts from your putative sincerity.

[evilmattikinz.livejournal.com]

I suggest you turn your animal magnetism off unless you can really abuse it. At the Zoo perhaps? Oh and favourite recent movie trailer quote "The penguins are psychotic" but they seem to have more of a plan and style.

Zik Zak, we make everything you want, you want everything we make. We don't make kangaroos.

[juffles.livejournal.com]

(the ! being pronounced "not" as the C programmer in you of course knows)

My god, you're an even bigger geek than Wobo hinted you might be. o_O (and she didn't exactly hold back on the geekiness description either.)

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

You are both shocking geeks which is why I have an ongoing urge to adopt/kidnap/marry you.

As bigamy is frowned upon I may have to enlarge the dungeon.

Or am I looking at this all wrong? Perhaps it's more like Pokemon and I'm meant to collect them all...

[evilmattikinz.livejournal.com]

"Shocking" may be the only escape eh Juffles. Some sort of insulated tinfoil suit and a van de graaf generator may ward her off for enough seconds as it takes to escape.

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Neh, I already attract static electricity in excess and am blase about being zapped by all and sundry.

If you want to escape me it's easy, since you have shown no signs of trying I am forced to conclude that you don't want to.

[evilmattikinz.livejournal.com]

Well, i've always fancied making a tesla coil. You leave me little choice.

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Oooh fun, can I help?

[evilmattikinz.livejournal.com]

Yes, we have a special job for you, you can have the honour of being the first test pilot...

[evilmattikinz.livejournal.com]

An even bigger geek than... Charming.... I'm a svelte 63kg I'll have you know.

She even pretends to laugh at my jokes too. I think a revenge is in order. Thoughts?

[juffles.livejournal.com]

Size is not always a measure of sheer physical bulk, my dear twig. The fact that I could quite possibly break bones by looking at you too hard does not make me a bigger geek. :)

She laughs at my jokes too, but I'd already come to the conclusion that she's insane and has no taste (witness her failure to buy a Subaru.)

[evilmattikinz.livejournal.com]

But she seems trained to break people's bones and practices regularly on her aquaintances, one presumes they don't remain "friends" after their hospitalisation.

Insane, well perhaps, she does at least pretend to understand the drivel that spews forth from my mouth regularly which really should be ignored. Perhaps she has no need of a Subaru as she is practicing some sort of fast cross country running thing. All that flapping of flightless wings, she must want to be an emu or an ostrich. Thus car2.0 is just for her hellhound. . .

So revenge - how about you ring her doorbell and run away. You can claim it was me if she catches you but one presumes that your subaru is calibrated in mach numbers and flies at an altitude of mere inches so this is unlikely?

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

I laugh at your jokes because

a) you are very funny men

b) you bother to make jokes and I wish to encourage you

c) I am easily amused

[evilmattikinz.livejournal.com]

Yeeeess. Go and see a doctor. You don't have to say that I told you to go, you can tell them that the voices in your head thought it was a good idea.

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

A physiotherapist perhaps; I may need to get this leg looked at again.

[evilmattikinz.livejournal.com]

Why don't you go back to the factory and swap your leg with a new on then get the maintenance team to have a look at it?

[scotsnow.livejournal.com]

Oooooo, now that is one serious slice of trendy internal combustion perambulation, m'dear!

If I wasn't 6 hours north of Perth I would insist on coming 'round and "oooing" and "aaahing" in person!

Very nice. Also shiny!

[evilmattikinz.livejournal.com]

Why are you 6 hours north of perth? I've looked at a map of the region and it is mostly unfinished. Not enough there to bother with a map, just some vague phrases about "Here there be 'Roos". (-;

There must be /some/ good reason, either that or you have commited some horrendous crime, pray tell. Are you too frightened of injury in close proximity to Maia? (-;

[scotsnow.livejournal.com]

Ha!

I am in fact 40 minutes East of Geraldton (lookit up in yo map; I'll wait) visiting the family's marron farm. It is quiet; perfect for doing nothing much at all!

I will "oooh" and "ahhh" at The M-Mobile when I get home.

I reckon she should call it Lambert.

Heh.

[evilmattikinz.livejournal.com]

They farm maroon? Is it for export? As a pigment? (-;

So what is a "marron"? [really, I have /no/ idea]

Lambert as in Simnel? Or is that too obscure a corner of english history for you?

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Did he really live out his life in the royal kitchens?

A marron is a little bit like a crayfish except kept in dams and having an unnerving tendency to go on moonlit walks.

It is also a tiny bit like a weta, given where you are staying atm you really should hunt one down and play with it.

[evilmattikinz.livejournal.com]

Kitchens - AFAIK yes he did. I think it was a royal practical joke.

Weta aren't recruiting at the moment and I'm not sure about the unnerving tendencies to wander around at midnight nor am I sure if they are a sort of reddish colour.

[scotsnow.livejournal.com]

Actually it's spelled "Symnell" I believe.

Imposter/claiment to the English crown. Son of a joiner, if I remember correctly, and a pawn in the shenanigans to restore the Yorks in 1485 (after Henry VII's victory).

And if some of that ain't quite right, I blames my shenoggled old on-board meat computer.

I was thinking of Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-1777) myself. :)

And I still think she should call it Lambert!!

[evilmattikinz.livejournal.com]

Ha! Like spelling was anything other than a Black Arte in the 15th century!

To my shame I had to look up who your Lambert was (although it brings back very rusty maths memories) and I don't really see the connection between him and a hell hound transportation contrivance.

Lambert shouts to me in a doggy context says hyper-enthusiastic, wet tongued, face licking, big dog on springs with added bound. Being more of a cat person I'd venture a "Red Setter"? How do you reconcile Lambert and Vehicle?

[scotsnow.livejournal.com]

Spelling's still a Black Arte!!

Lambert+Mathematician ... no connection whatsoever. The only other Lambert that sprang to mind was Christopher. :)

As for Lambert=Vehicle ... well, I just took one look at the piccy and thought, "Oh, that's Lambert!"

My brain works in mysterious ways and I makes no apology for it!

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

Congrats. It looks just right for taking the woofer out of town (and you're always welcome to head in this direction!).

Can't help with the names. I haven't even named the horse I've owned for two years.

[evilmattikinz.livejournal.com]

[sarcastic] Errm can I suggest based on your username calling your horse :

horse1

It is a simple and convenient naming convention with much scope for future acquisitions! (-;

Perhaps Maia should think of

Car2.0

(-;

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

Actually, using that nomenclature he'd be Horse6.0!

[evilmattikinz.livejournal.com]

Amused (-:

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Hmm

Hillman Minx Car1.0
Hillman Nymphette Car1.1
Laser Car2.0
Honda Civic Car3.0
RAV4 Car4.0

It has a certain charm.

So does Lambert

[juffles.livejournal.com]

Hillman Minx POS 1.0 (Classic release)
Hillman Nymphette POS 1.1 (re-release, with updated...umm...rust)
Laser Student Car 1.0
Honda Civic POS 2.0 (Major upgrade of rustness and general badness)
RAV4 GetTheF***OutOfMyWayIveGotA4WD 1.0

:)

[evilmattikinz.livejournal.com]

RAV4 - didn't realise you had kids that needed taking to school...


[makes face and ducks]

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

SHINY!