Why do people name their kids after cars?

[frankgomez75]

I mean come on! Especially cars they will never prolly own?

Porsche?
A"Lexus"?
Mercedes?

WTF!

 

[tami]

their children are packed with features.

 

[eakers]

its where they were concieved.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

I'm going to name my kid 300SL. Lets see the bastards in the IRS figure out how to put that one in thier system.

 

[Tylanner]

LOTUS!

 

[mdchesne]

um.... i think those are hooker names... or at least porn stars... not children.... if those are children's names --> shens on the parents!!!!!!!!!!

 

[So]

Originally posted by: tami
their children are packed with features.

:laugh::laugh:

 

[Trygve]

Originally posted by: frankgomez75
I mean come on! Especially cars they will never prolly own?

Porsche?
A"Lexus"?
Mercedes?

WTF!

That's a joke, right? Mercedes was a girl's name long before there were cars. (And the car was named after a girl who had that name.) Portia, too, though the "Porsche" that the cars are named after is a last name.

 

[AdamSnow]

A lot of cars got their names from people...

Enzo Ferrari
Ferruccio Lamborghini
Henry Ford

To name a few that come to the top of my mind... You get the point...

 

[Orsorum]

Porn stars to-be.

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: Trygve

Originally posted by: frankgomez75
I mean come on! Especially cars they will never prolly own?

Porsche?
A"Lexus"?
Mercedes?

WTF!

That's a joke, right? Mercedes was a girl's name long before there were cars. (And the car was named after a girl who had that name.) Portia, too, though the "Porsche" that the cars are named after is a last name.

:thumbsup:

 

[JoPh]

all of them are better then "pilot inspector"

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: Trygve

Originally posted by: frankgomez75
I mean come on! Especially cars they will never prolly own?

Porsche?
A"Lexus"?
Mercedes?

WTF!

That's a joke, right? Mercedes was a girl's name long before there were cars. (And the car was named after a girl who had that name.) Portia, too, though the "Porsche" that the cars are named after is a last name.

What about Lexus? I wonder if people made the mistake the OP did and thought Mercedes and Portia got their names from cars, so why not Lexus. That's be funny...

 

[bigrash]

I'm gonna name my kid Pathfinder so that he's never lost in life

 

[ZOOYUKA]

How about Delorean, Pinto, of Ranchero!

 

[AdamSnow]

Originally posted by: bigrash
I'm gonna name my kid Pathfinder so that he's never lost in life

 

[Pepsi90919]

there was some black kid on one of the trashy tv shows named shevette

 

[rh71]

isn't there an NFL player with the name Cadillac ? Saw him mentioned on SportsCenter last night.

 

[Steve]

"You will bear a son, and call him Infiniti..." He'll be omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent....

 

[BrokenVisage]

*wonders if a kid named Scion exists yet*

 

[bigrash]

Originally posted by: rh71
isn't there an NFL player with the name Cadillac ? Saw him mentioned on SportsCenter last night.

uhm...that's not his real name

 

[AdamSnow]

Originally posted by: rh71
isn't there an NFL player with the name Cadillac ? Saw him mentioned on SportsCenter last night.

That's not surprising given the following that Cadillac has... Some people get Cadillac tattoo's, etc...

Crazy!

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: rh71
isn't there an NFL player with the name Cadillac ? Saw him mentioned on SportsCenter last night.

That's a nickname, his real name is Carnell Williams.

 

[paulney]

Originally posted by: rh71
isn't there an NFL player with the name Cadillac ? Saw him mentioned on SportsCenter last night.

Is he pink?

 

[Trygve]

Originally posted by: Phoenix86

Originally posted by: Trygve

Originally posted by: frankgomez75
Porsche?
A"Lexus"?
Mercedes?

That's a joke, right? Mercedes was a girl's name long before there were cars. (And the car was named after a girl who had that name.) Portia, too, though the "Porsche" that the cars are named after is a last name.

What about Lexus? I wonder if people made the mistake the OP did and thought Mercedes and Portia got their names from cars, so why not Lexus. That's be funny...

Ooops--before I wrote my response, I didn't even notice that he'd written A"Lexus" (note the 'A'). That goes all the way back to ancient Greece.

So, yes, you caught it--all three have been names from long, long before internal combustion engines were invented.