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BS: Mrrzy's 'Mobile Martina

10 Oct 00 - 10:11 PM (#315941)
Subject: Mrrzy's 'Mobile Martina
From: Mrrzy

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...


11 Oct 00 - 10:07 AM (#316214)
Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's 'Mobile Martina
From: LR Mole

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.


11 Oct 00 - 10:17 AM (#316219)
Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's 'Mobile Martina
From: catspaw49

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


11 Oct 00 - 12:35 PM (#316317)
Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's 'Mobile Martina
From: Mbo

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


11 Oct 00 - 12:47 PM (#316328)
Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's 'Mobile Martina
From: Morticia

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.


11 Oct 00 - 01:07 PM (#316337)
Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's 'Mobile Martina
From: wysiwyg

Mbo!!!!!

Good one!!!

Right on the edge!

~S~


11 Oct 00 - 01:43 PM (#316355)
Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's 'Mobile Martina
From: Mrrzy

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?


11 Oct 00 - 02:15 PM (#316381)
Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's 'Mobile Martina
From: Naemanson

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.


11 Oct 00 - 03:17 PM (#316432)
Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's 'Mobile Martina
From: Sorcha

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.


11 Oct 00 - 04:25 PM (#316491)
Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's 'Mobile Martina
From: GUEST,Mrr(whoatemycookie?)

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?