Why do machines get given female names?

Mon Apr 12, 2004 5:56 pm by Comont54

I heard a reference between a marriage and a hurricane something in the form of "at first its really wet and theres lots of sucking and blowing then afterwards you lose your house and your car" heheheheheh

"Sometimes I just stare at my computer screen and wonder what technology hath wrought. Other times I stare at it and think, those have GOT to be fake"

Mon Apr 12, 2004 7:15 pm by Neo_Kuja

I can't wait until malstryx finds this ...........

Mon Apr 12, 2004 7:56 pm by Jagged

Me too Neo. I can't wait until sw finds this.I wonder, Taw maybe you should get running.

Edited by - Jagged on 4/12/2004 8:56:58 PM

Mon Apr 12, 2004 11:26 pm by Esquilax

Maybe it's because the men have strong attachments to their machines, and it would seem to be a bit odd to be passionate about a machine called "Roscoe", rather than one called "Anna"

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Tue Apr 13, 2004 12:17 am by Tawakalna

look, it's just observation. I happen not to think of any machine as female, they're just machines; unlike females they're eminently fixable

I refer to all machinery as "it" except Andrea, the beautiful android from ST:TOS

Tue Apr 13, 2004 1:38 am by Esquilax

I work in IT, and I don't call any computers by female names. Still, a Dell "PowerEdge" server called "Eowyn" might work

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Tue Apr 13, 2004 2:09 am by Tawakalna

LOL! that's what my daughter called her PC when I said she had to give it a name.... Eowyn. My little boy called his Smeagol.

Tue Apr 13, 2004 2:14 am by mustang

I always thought it was because men generally like to care and service their machines much like a woman. Personally I don't have any human affiliations with machines, they're there to do a job and god help them if they don't, cause i'll be trying to fix them whether I know what i'm doing or not.

Tue Apr 13, 2004 2:36 am by freighter fighter

I call mine the preciousssss

Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams

Tue Apr 13, 2004 1:48 pm by Esquilax

Taw - So your kids have been corrupted by the One (namely the box office). *Shakes head* PLEASE tell me that they have actually read the books and not just jumped on the band wagon like the rest of the Philistines!

ff - *Rolls eyes* Just watch out for volcanoes and short men with hariy feet.

Tue Apr 13, 2004 2:23 pm by freighter fighter

yesss we watch out for the sneaksy hobitsses, actually its my sister i need to worry about.

Tue Apr 13, 2004 2:56 pm by Tawakalna

ach, they've been reading the books for years. Nerd-daughter was raised on it (by herself)

Tue Apr 13, 2004 3:22 pm by spearhead

treat them right no problem....screw up and "HELL HAVE NO FURY LIKE A WOMANS SCRON".....{YOUR DAD RIGHT}

death is the last great adventure.

Tue Apr 13, 2004 3:58 pm by Esquilax

Well that's a relief, Taw. I have read LOTR, etc many, many times over the years. The first time was when I was about eight, and I turned out teréva (that's "fine" in Elvish

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Tue Apr 13, 2004 4:06 pm by Jagged

@Taw Tell your children to be more...err...creative with names. I can't tell you how many times I log onto multiplayer in one of my games without seeing something like legolas18764.

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