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[MROO]

QUESTION
It has come to my attention that I should totally definitely name my car.
"She" is an '03 gold Lincoln Town Car in good condition. Husband has dumped a good bit of time and money into improving her handling (throttle body, sway bars, Marty Tune etc). She is technically my first car. Our other main vehicle, a big red Yukon, is named Barbarossa.
Anyhoos, I'm really not sure what direction to go in naming her, but I figure after a year of owning her, she deserves one.
She's a "luxury vehicle", but has a sizeable V8 engine. Has some spit to her due to the upgrades, despite her lowly 240hp.

This image is an example off of Google, since I have no good pictures of her.
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Anyhoos, what to name my Lovely Lincoln?

I think I'd just call her Classy - or use the name of a really classy lady ... maybe from the Hollywood Classic era. My first ride - a '73 Monte Carlo went by either The Lady or The Witch - depending on her "behavior" at the time.

 

[notabitail]

Sounds like a subpar experience.

That was literally the whole reason it was subpar for me. I would have been 100% happy with it otherwise (it was a fundraising dinner).

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

And whose bright idea was it to drop letters from words? "Color" and "Colour" are the same darn thing!

Probably the same people who decided we needed both "grey" and "gray." My new writing aid got mad at me for spelling it the British way instead of the American way when my other writing aid has just been letting it slip on by this whole time.

I can never remember which way is the American way!

 

[fldiver97]

Probably the same people who decided we needed both "grey" and "gray." My new writing aid got mad at me for spelling it the British way instead of the American way when my other writing aid has just been letting it slip on by this whole time.

I can never remember which way is the American way!

hah…. I feel your pain! Growing up in Germany I was taught British english, for some reason later in high school one of my teachers ( who was also a French and Russian teacher and a big stick in the mud) insisted on all proper British English. Another of my English teachers had us read American and British literature and was great. Anyway, I still on a rare occasion use the ‘proper’ spelling or word but not as much as I did when I first moved to the US. No wonder people looked at me like I was some kind of an alien

 

[tlcmurphy]

Probably the same people who decided we needed both "grey" and "gray." My new writing aid got mad at me for spelling it the British way instead of the American way when my other writing aid has just been letting it slip on by this whole time.

I can never remember which way is the American way!

That’s because it’s all shades of grey…

 

[tlcmurphy]

That’s because it’s all shades of grey…

50 of them I’ve heard

 

[notabitail]

Probably the same people who decided we needed both "grey" and "gray." My new writing aid got mad at me for spelling it the British way instead of the American way when my other writing aid has just been letting it slip on by this whole time.

I can never remember which way is the American way!

Weird thing is there's a British guy on youtube with the last name Gray. Not Grey.

 

[azurbanclucker]

50 of them I’ve heard

is it after dark already?