BS: Mrrzy's 'Mobile Martina

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's 'Mobile Martina
From: GUEST,Mrr(whoatemycookie?)
Date: 11 Oct 00 - 04:25 PM

Maybe if you'd also paid for them to jump out of it once enough momentum was reached but before it actually left the clifftop?

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's 'Mobile Martina
From: Sorcha
Date: 11 Oct 00 - 03:17 PM

I used to have a Subaru named Lucille (You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me...) Current is a blue Toyota named John Lee. I don't agree that all cars are female;, most are but what about those huge 4x4 double cab pickups? Mr. had one I called the BigBlackBastard. For years I tried to hire someone to drive it off a cliff.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's 'Mobile Martina
From: Naemanson
Date: 11 Oct 00 - 02:15 PM

I had a 1967 Mustang Convertable which I named Molly after the heroine of the song "Run, Molly, Run" on one of the Kingston Trio albums.

I later had a 1974 Dodge van which I named Little Brown Jug.

For some reason I haven't named my last two vehicles.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's 'Mobile Martina
From: Mrrzy
Date: 11 Oct 00 - 01:43 PM

Spaw, where you say:

A) All cars are women.
Kind of like all ships are she? I really have to agree, at least in my experience. None of my cars have been male.

B) All cars should have names.
Agree again, totally. In fact, all objects of importance to humans should have names. My bicycle was named Clovis, after Clovis Sangrail of Saki fame. Various anatomical parts fall under this category...

C) Names should relate to the car and not the owner.
YES, again. That is how the name Martina came up - ever heard of Martina Navratilova, if that is how her last name is spelled in English? She is one of my role models, and this car reminds me of her in many ways. Which also answers the question of how I came up with Martina...

And there is no fear of my ever singing anything tainted by Barbra Streisand to anyone, if I tried I think I would sulk and stall too!

So, other than the interesting creep about what people name their important objects or cars, any other Martina songs? Or is that one of those names not famed in song and story?

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's 'Mobile Martina
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Oct 00 - 01:07 PM

Mbo!!!!!

Good one!!!

Right on the edge!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's 'Mobile Martina
From: Morticia
Date: 11 Oct 00 - 12:47 PM

Mine is called Edna......Edna the Inebriate Car ( after a stage play called Edna the inebriate woman) as she doesn't appear to be able to pass a garage without a top-up.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's 'Mobile Martina
From: Mbo
Date: 11 Oct 00 - 12:35 PM

My car is named Napolean, or the Willy-Mobile (named afte someONE, not someTHING).

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's 'Mobile Martina
From: catspaw49
Date: 11 Oct 00 - 10:17 AM

A) All cars are women.

B) All cars should have names.

C) Names should relate to the car and not the owner.

For example, the 66 T-Bird in the alley garage is "Queenie".......She's a true garage queen knowing far more about the garage than she does about the road. We have a nice Astro Conversion van named "Lola" as in "What Lola wants, Lola gets"......In the mid-70's I owned (or was owned by) a Jag E-Type known as "Bitch Kitty" and one of my 'Vettes was called "Fuckin' Pig"............Where did you get Martina fer chrissakes?

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's 'Mobile Martina
From: LR Mole
Date: 11 Oct 00 - 10:07 AM

Second or third Barbra Streisand album has one: "I can see Martina, as a child of three/in the sad seclusion of her nursery..." though were I a car by that name I'd sulk and stall if that were sung to me.All that comes to mind, offhand.

Subject: Mrrzy's 'Mobile Martina
From: Mrrzy
Date: 10 Oct 00 - 10:11 PM

I had a midlife crisis, or something, and bought a NEW car!!! I still can't believe it. A 2001 (!) Toyota Corolla. She's (I think it's a she, I'm not quite sure yet) black, and is, I'm told, not a Mom car. I've named her Martina, after the tennis player, because she's strong and has a definite masculine side. Which is why I'm reserving judgment on whether she might not, after all, be a he...

Anyway, I'm pleased as Punch, and need some Martina songs. I can think of Henry Martin, but I can't think of even any Martine (French) songs...