Your MINI's Name - How Did You Pick It

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  1. T8rChick

    T8rChick Active Member

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    Nice!
     
  2. Kikimowse

    Kikimowse Active Member

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    MINImowse

    Quite a few years ago, OK decades, a very good friend of mine had just finished UC Davis and moved to Southern California to take a job as an aeronautical engineer. Friday nights the group would get together to kick off the weekend and on one of my visits to LA, I joined in. I quickly discovered that no one used their "given" names and they simply would not accept my "real name". They insisted that I had to have a nickname too. The names that they were trying to saddle me with were horrific. (I often wondered if they really worked for the CIA and they were masking their identities; I mean they did build the Stealth after all). We grabbed the newly published "Preppy Handbook" and flipped through the pages. It was decided that I would be dubbed Kiki. The name stuck.

    Not long after, just as AOL was coming out (yes there was a time before the INTERNET) I needed to select a screen name. I am an avid (or is that rabid) Disneyland fan and have a passion for Mickey Mouse. I decided that my screen name would be Kikimouse. Alas the name on AOL was taken by Kikimouse 1 through 33. I was not about to be Kikimouse34 so I typed in Kikimowse (mouse with a “w”) and, as they say, the rest is history

    When I adopted my 2007 MINI Cabrio, I originally thought that “it” was a boy. All of my other cars had been boys. No matter how hard I tried, I just could not find a name that fit or felt right. Any of the names that I tried just seemed wrong. A few months later my sister adopted a 2008 coop. When my 2007 cabrio was parked next to her 2008 coop, I knew immediately that my MINI was a girl and her name was MINImowse. Just as numerous other MINI owners had assured me, the name would come to me and I would just know it was the right one. I even had a special European plate made for her.

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  3. All4One

    All4One New Member

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    My Countryman has all-wheel drive. Mini's moniker of "All4" is top shelf and easily trumps VW's "4motion," Mercedes' "4matic" and BMW's own "xDrive." I've always liked Alexandre Dumas' line from the Three Musketeers, "All for one, one for all." It just works for me and my Mini. So her name (plate) is "ONE 4 ALL."
     
  4. scf

    scf New Member

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    A frood who really knows where his towel is.
     
  5. INAMINI

    INAMINI New Member

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    My name is Ina (pronounced EEna), my MINI's name is INAMINI. Named before I even saw her.

    She has a Europlate from the Netherlands on the front.
     
  6. eggmole

    eggmole New Member

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    EggMINI

    Well as you can see from my screen name, which was goven to me by a friend when we were in high school. It just came out one day. needless to say i have used it as a call name and as my screen name since the internet started. Now my daughter like to put Egg in front of her , my wife and EggMax our dog so it was only natural to call him EggMINI:idea:
     
  7. mendez

    mendez New Member

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    Googled "create your super hero/villian name". The program asked for parameters, which I gave as "Fast, Boy, and Car". TURBITO was born.
     
  8. ljmattox

    ljmattox Active Member

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    Nigel Blue

    Yes..."Nigel Blue".

    I posted this on MINI2, a bit more explanation for a UK audience:

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    Our new MINI is already named: Nigel Blue. Why so? It started with my alter ego, a source of a lot of humor at our place, a typically-American British stereotype named "Nigel Fairthorpe". This character was sort of "assigned" to me in some sense: growing up in America during the "muscle car" era, I bucked the trend and drove small cars, Fiats & VWs. I spent quality time in, and could extol the virtues and foibles of, most of the British cars of the era as well: MGBs, MGB GTs, Midgets, Triumph Spitfires, TR3s,TR4s, TR6s, GT6s, Morris Minors, Austin Americas, MG 1100s, Austin Healey 100-4s & 3000s. And whose dad owned a Hillman? So I became known as the resident "foreign car" expert, Nigel Fairthorpe, likely to be prone to dashing about in a tweed jacket, wool flat cap, and leather driving gloves, smoking a full-bent briar of Dunhill Standard and clicking off expert heel/toe downshifts as I made good time through the countryside. Yeah, I was that guy.

    Fast forward [many] years.

    So when purchasing a made-in-Oxford MINI, it had to be "Nigel". During the decision-making phase, I built 10-15 different MINIs, so at any one time I'd have "Nigel Black" (black with chrome/silver), "Nigel Fast" (a JCW), "Sinister Nigel" (all black), etc. Once I spotted an Ice Blue MINI at the dealer, I was hooked, and that led to "Nigel Blue", that was just built this past week and is waiting at Southampton to come "home". Due here a month or so from now.
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  9. SMOG

    SMOG ZOOOOOMMMM
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    SMOG's name

    I have owned many cars over the years but never 2 of the same kind at the same time, so it must be a group of MINI's since we own 2. I also never leave a car stock so I decided SMOG was for Special Mini Operations Group.

    2011 MCSa

    2009 MCa

    My Rides over the years

    So that is how SMOG was derived.
     
  10. Soap

    Soap New Member

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    Well growing up i have always been the odd kid, wait, I still am. I have been gifted with a wonderful imagination just like Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes. My cars previous to the mini had character but never recieved a name. The Mini makes me feel like it is my imaginable friend that I can just go have a good time with and leave the real world behind.

    Now if I can just get my wife to paint it orange!! :ihih::biggrin5::ihih:
     
  11. Webmist

    Webmist New Member

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    I'm still trying to work one out. I think MiniMoi is going to stick. People ask what I have and when I tell them they say that is so you.
     
  12. sobie

    sobie New Member

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    Mine is the Angry Hamster and it's derived from the show "The Young Ones" for those that remember; Vyvyan had a pet hamster named Special Patrol Group or SPG (which was my first choice) and it just stuck. Works because my g/f drives a VW Rabbit aka The Bunny.
     
  13. Norm03s

    Norm03s New Member

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    The lady with the dragon tattoo, OMG!
     
  14. Metalman

    Metalman Well-Known Member
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    ^^^There..... Fixed it for ya.....:D
     
  15. t3hwookiee

    t3hwookiee New Member

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    That is an awesome tag! I would make a towel reference, but Nathan already did. :)
     
  16. minimark

    minimark Well-Known Member

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    Mini + beer + Mark = minimark
     
  17. Mr. Jim

    Mr. Jim Mudshark
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    Let me guess, you drank the beer and what was left was minimark :)
     
  18. KittyMini

    KittyMini Club Coordinator

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    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
     
  19. minimark

    minimark Well-Known Member

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    Yep, that's pretty close to how it went.....lol:p
     
  20. SacredDisorder

    SacredDisorder Because Race Car?
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    Gloria just came to me. She was all black and shiny and I knew she would do great things.
     

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