+Vater_Araignee Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 I have referred to my 60CSx as Dr. Theopolis. Since I carry it around my neck. Anyone remember Dr. Theopolis??? Dibaty dibaty dibaty but Buck... I call mine "Clu" from the movie TRON. Quote Link to comment
+gelfling6 Posted November 22, 2008 Share Posted November 22, 2008 I have referred to my 60CSx as Dr. Theopolis. Since I carry it around my neck. Anyone remember Dr. Theopolis??? Dibaty dibaty dibaty but Buck... I call mine "Clu" from the movie TRON. Okay, I must be getting old.... No, Wait! Now I remember!! Flynn's tank program in the beginning. Oh-No! Now I have truly passed the point of no return.. Yet another mouth to feed Eneloops to.... Adding newest bargain found at Cabelas... Garmin eTrex Legend HCx.. Sky (sky-blue, Okay, so the case it blue-grey..) 12 finds in the past month, and I'm loving the MiniSD!!!! Full TOPO map of New England loaded, and track logging independent of the internal memory in GPX format. Just wish they had as good a bargain on a Vista HCx.... I've misplaced Doctor (The Lowrance PhD).. I could really use the compass! Quote Link to comment
+cjs_team Posted November 22, 2008 Share Posted November 22, 2008 We are a bit formal with ours. We call her Ms. Garmin Quote Link to comment
+Ockette Posted November 22, 2008 Share Posted November 22, 2008 My Garmin is the Compass That Doesn't Point North. Quote Link to comment
+wickedann Posted November 22, 2008 Share Posted November 22, 2008 Garmin Nuvi 370 = "Garwoman" Our game, when she is in on-road mode getting us near a cache or for "real" navigation, is to add "you idiot" to the end of her instruction. (Sort of like "in bed" at the end of a fortune cookie futune). Garwoman, "In .3 miles, turn left..." Car-full-of-cachers in unison, "..YOU IDIOT!" This works especially well when Garwoman intones, "recalculating, recalculating..." Some will envariably add the unspoken narrative going on in Garwoman's head, "...as I am ALWAYS doing for you! If you would simply turn when I TELL you to turn, we wouldn't be in this mess! Which reminds me...this car is TRASHED! Will you ever throw away your own McDonald's wrappers? There are 20 yr old french frys under your seat!!..." (Yes, it was a VERY long road-trip filled summer for two adults and two kids!!) That's great! Maybe I will hafta start doin that with my Nuvi 760, which we call b+(chin betty. My fav two phrases she utters: "recalculating" "when possible...make a u turn" Quote Link to comment
+ThePachecos Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 Ours is Garmina... Quote Link to comment
+trumpettruck Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 The name for my 60CSX and my Car Navigation is 'Sacajawea'. :-) Quote Link to comment
+ThePachecos Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 Garmin Nuvi 370 = "Garwoman" Our game, when she is in on-road mode getting us near a cache or for "real" navigation, is to add "you idiot" to the end of her instruction. (Sort of like "in bed" at the end of a fortune cookie futune). Garwoman, "In .3 miles, turn left..." Car-full-of-cachers in unison, "..YOU IDIOT!" This works especially well when Garwoman intones, "recalculating, recalculating..." Some will envariably add the unspoken narrative going on in Garwoman's head, "...as I am ALWAYS doing for you! If you would simply turn when I TELL you to turn, we wouldn't be in this mess! Which reminds me...this car is TRASHED! Will you ever throw away your own McDonald's wrappers? There are 20 yr old french frys under your seat!!..." (Yes, it was a VERY long road-trip filled summer for two adults and two kids!!) That's great! Maybe I will hafta start doin that with my Nuvi 760, which we call b+(chin betty. My fav two phrases she utters: "recalculating" "when possible...make a u turn" When mine says that.. I swear she wants to call me an a55.. Quote Link to comment
+Proud Soccer Mom Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 Mine is Booger. Quote Link to comment
+gelfling6 Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Let's see.... The whole fleet... In order of purchase.... eTrex - Old Yellar. DeLorme LT-20 (#1) - Spike eTrex Legend - Blue Magellan MAP-410 - Flip (because of the antenna) eTrex VentureHC - Half-Pint DeLorme LT-20 (#2) - Ducky (rescued from a tag sale) Magellan Explorist 500 - Rocky Magellan Explorist 400 - Bullwinkle (Don't laugh. It's the 1st that came to mind.) Lowrance iFinder PhD - The Doctor Yes, I know.. I have Too Many!! Said elsewhere... If you have one GPSr, You're not lost. If you have more than 2, You're totally lost! Which puts me in the category of.... Umm.. Nevermind! Stephen (gelfling6) And... Now, I have truely hit the lowest of the low... I have adopted, yet another GPSr to feed.... Garmin GPS-72 - Gonzo The Great (you know, the little blue Weirdo from the Muppets?) Just earned it's 1st Geocache today! You can't seem to have too few GPSr's.. Stephen And, I haven't stopped there... Add two more... Microsoft I500(minipuck)- Dalek (because of the new producer's use of Blue-LED's in Doctor Who) (And Microsoft's constant attempt to "Exterminate!" the competition.) Garmin Nuvi 205 - Newbi (Just bought it today, Oh this is gonna be fun!) Let's see.. that... 12, yes, count them, 12 active GPSrs. I truly am a GPS addict. Newbi is going to be used at work, mostly... Mapping bus routes.. trying to make sense of a scambled mess of routes coming out of the computer, and not matching the routes drivers have been driving for years. Stephen (gelfling6) Quote Link to comment
Motto3 Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 My daughter, Maggie, named my Nuvi 265 "Pam", because it is "Map" spelled backwards. She then name my old blue etrex, Rex. She has now named my etrex Venture HC "Pete", as it is a "repeat" of the blue etrex. Gotta love 8 year-olds. Quote Link to comment
+ckarrow2 Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 I like to call my Garmin 60CSx a "Tricorder". Quote Link to comment
Shiraz-mataz Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 I have a Garmin Nuvi for the car that I call "Daphne" because I set the voice to a British accent and it reminded me of the character from the show Frasier. Quote Link to comment
Shiraz-mataz Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 (edited) I have a Garmin Nuvi for the car that I call "Daphne" because I set the voice to a British accent and it reminded me of the character from the show Frasier. (sorry about the double post...) Edited January 2, 2009 by Shiraz-mataz Quote Link to comment
+gelfling6 Posted April 10, 2009 Share Posted April 10, 2009 Let's see.... The whole fleet... In order of purchase.... eTrex - Old Yellar. DeLorme LT-20 (#1) - Spike eTrex Legend - Blue Magellan MAP-410 - Flip (because of the antenna) eTrex VentureHC - Half-Pint DeLorme LT-20 (#2) - Ducky (rescued from a tag sale) Magellan Explorist 500 - Rocky Magellan Explorist 400 - Bullwinkle (Don't laugh. It's the 1st that came to mind.) Lowrance iFinder PhD - The Doctor Yes, I know.. I have Too Many!! Said elsewhere... If you have one GPSr, You're not lost. If you have more than 2, You're totally lost! Which puts me in the category of.... Umm.. Nevermind! Stephen (gelfling6) And... Now, I have truely hit the lowest of the low... I have adopted, yet another GPSr to feed.... Garmin GPS-72 - Gonzo The Great (you know, the little blue Weirdo from the Muppets?) Just earned it's 1st Geocache today! You can't seem to have too few GPSr's.. Stephen And, I haven't stopped there... Add two more... Microsoft I500(minipuck)- Dalek (because of the new producer's use of Blue-LED's in Doctor Who) (And Microsoft's constant attempt to "Exterminate!" the competition.) Garmin Nuvi 205 - Newbi (Just bought it today, Oh this is gonna be fun!) Let's see.. that... 12, yes, count them, 12 active GPSrs. I truly am a GPS addict. Newbi is going to be used at work, mostly... Mapping bus routes.. trying to make sense of a scambled mess of routes coming out of the computer, and not matching the routes drivers have been driving for years. Stephen (gelfling6) Hi, My name is Stephen, I go by the handle of Gelfling6, and I'm a hard-core GPS Addict! Add 3 more to the stack.. Garmin GPS-72 - Mr. Gray Garmin eTrex Legend HCx - Horatio (after Horatio Caine, Lead character of CSI-Miami) and now.... Garmin eTrex-Summit HC - Topper (still haven't decided if it's named after a hot-air balloon I know of, or the lead character in the "Hot-Shots" parody movies (Topper Harley)) Quote Link to comment
GPS-Hermit Posted April 10, 2009 Share Posted April 10, 2009 I call it "My GPS' Quote Link to comment
+roziecakes Posted April 10, 2009 Share Posted April 10, 2009 Ours was usually called, loudly, the "F***ing thing that doesn't work" note that we have a new one coming in the mail... -Rozie Quote Link to comment
+Let's Look Over Thayer Posted April 10, 2009 Share Posted April 10, 2009 Our StreetPilot was named IRMA after Irma, the invisible pianist at the Magic Castle. IRMA stands for Invisible Route Management Assistant. After that, our 60CS became IRMA Jr. and an Etrex became IRMette... Quote Link to comment
Texas Joe Posted April 10, 2009 Share Posted April 10, 2009 My sister calls my dad's Nuvi Gertrude P. Smith... My wife and I have named our Garmin vista "Grover Pierce Sinclair III". But just call him Grover. (Grover says you have to play Frogger and get on THAT side of the freeway"!) Quote Link to comment
+Steve&GeoCarolyn Posted April 10, 2009 Share Posted April 10, 2009 I'm so delighted that others also name their devices. Our Garmin Oregon is named Genie because it is quicker to say than "GPS Device" and because she magically points the way to the treasure for us. Quote Link to comment
+Bubbles&Bonkers Posted April 10, 2009 Share Posted April 10, 2009 Our Garmin Nuvi that we started with we call Gar. Creative, huh? Then we got a handheld that we also use and we call that Baby Gar. ) Quote Link to comment
+scoutfrog Posted April 10, 2009 Share Posted April 10, 2009 A couple in my local geocaching club (GETGC.org). has 2 names for their 60csx. Most of the time it is called "skippy" for the way the direction arrow skips. The other name is "Johnny" for being "Johnny on the spot". Quote Link to comment
sarahbelle Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 My Legend (the second, although I've now upgraded to the Cx) is simply that... the Legend. After reading this thread, I'll have to come up with something creative now. My husband calls caching 'geothingy'. As in 'When we go on our road trip, you should see if there's any geothingies to find' and 'It's been a while since you've gone geothingy'. I laugh every single time. Quote Link to comment
+Pork King Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 I've never named my GPS until now but "Hal" will be a good name in honor of Arthur C. Clarke, who passed away yesterday... CACHER: "GPS, I'd like to go to the cache without wading through .8 mile of briars only to find a paved walking path 50 feet from the cache." GPSR: "I can't let you do that, Dave." Quote Link to comment
+cerberus1 Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 We both have Nuvi 660s for navigation. The screen itself has a choice between "Jack" or "Jill" for voice commands. CJ used to call her (now very outdated) Quest "Helga." Quote Link to comment
+AngelWolf93 Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 My first one I started calling "Jeepers" because my friend and I like to find different ways of pronouncing acronyms, and GPSr, started to look a lot like GPrS. So, of course, the next one got named "Creepers" Quote Link to comment
+craftypants Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 My Garmin GPS60 is called Big G. Firstly because it is a Garmin and secondly for my grandfather who when we were young(er) he would take us walking, 'adventuring' and 'jungleing' he would call it which I believe could also be termed bushwacking. Seemed appropriate. Kim (The Real Big G is still around so it isn't a posthumour honour. I shall have to tell him when I next see him.) PS, I also named my KitchenAid Artisan 'Whippy the Wonder Mixer' which must be sung to the tune of Weird Al's 'Harvey the Wonder Hamster'. Quote Link to comment
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