Common practice to name summer cottages in the U.S. and AFAIK houses in general in many parts of the UK, where a mailing address can be "Colin Bell, Downybrook, Westchester, UK" etc. (similarly a summer address might be Biddy Blueblood, Elizabeth's Rest, Cape Snootytown Massachusetts - though I think the USPS now requires those folk to have PO Boxes)
I think boats are required by US law to have registered names not just numbers if they're of a certain size.
Cars often get names if they exhibit signs of having a personality, which is an undesirable trait in an inanimate object, but god knows cars develop mechanical quirks tantamount to one.
People who name their guns are either scary or are professional skeet shooters, but I'd say it's not particularly weird to have a name for a gun in one's head, though it would be odd to call it by that name in conversation.
Fishing Rod: see Cars.
Dining Table: OK, that's weird.
Food Processor: I had one I called Betty. It was vintage and had a personality (see: Cars)
Underpants: time to see a shrink/call the CDC or EPA/omg
All houses must be named. It is a Rule, especially if there is more than one person living in the house. Some house names of people I know: the Editorial Eyrie (mine and zingerella's), the Mud House, the Beta Colony, and the House of Cute. If you do not name your house, a name will be chosen for you (e.g., the House of Cute).
A boat must be named as well. If you do not name your boat, you are not a proper pirate, and you'll have to walk the plank, ya scurvy landlubber.
A car probably should be named. But I know it's harder coming up with names for cars.
A firearm must be named. I would name mine Vera because I'm a big geek, except all I have is a watergun. Fishing rods should be named as well.
Dining tables only need a name if you shag on them.
I could see why you'd want to name a food processor, but it's a bit weird. I don't know why you'd want to name underpants at all.
If you ever acquire a Roomba, you'll have to name that too.
As the others have said, it's a personality thing -- the personality of the object that is. All the above apart from dining tables and underpants are likely to have quirks and personalities that would lead to the owner giving names, even if only private ones.
And ... er ... when you say naming underpants, do you mean giving a name to each pair, as in, "Oh, no! Wilfrid's in the wash and Henry's not dry yet. I'll have to wear Maurice and I never find him comfortable!" :)
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Date: 2008-01-22 12:09 am (UTC)I think boats are required by US law to have registered names not just numbers if they're of a certain size.
Cars often get names if they exhibit signs of having a personality, which is an undesirable trait in an inanimate object, but god knows cars develop mechanical quirks tantamount to one.
People who name their guns are either scary or are professional skeet shooters, but I'd say it's not particularly weird to have a name for a gun in one's head, though it would be odd to call it by that name in conversation.
Fishing Rod: see Cars.
Dining Table: OK, that's weird.
Food Processor: I had one I called Betty. It was vintage and had a personality (see: Cars)
Underpants: time to see a shrink/call the CDC or EPA/omg
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Date: 2008-01-22 03:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-22 12:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-22 02:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-22 04:05 am (UTC)A boat must be named as well. If you do not name your boat, you are not a proper pirate, and you'll have to walk the plank, ya scurvy landlubber.
A car probably should be named. But I know it's harder coming up with names for cars.
A firearm must be named. I would name mine Vera because I'm a big geek, except all I have is a watergun. Fishing rods should be named as well.
Dining tables only need a name if you shag on them.
I could see why you'd want to name a food processor, but it's a bit weird. I don't know why you'd want to name underpants at all.
If you ever acquire a Roomba, you'll have to name that too.
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Date: 2008-01-22 04:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-22 05:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-22 10:42 am (UTC)And ... er ... when you say naming underpants, do you mean giving a name to each pair, as in, "Oh, no! Wilfrid's in the wash and Henry's not dry yet. I'll have to wear Maurice and I never find him comfortable!" :)
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Date: 2008-01-23 11:37 pm (UTC)Naming underpants would be weird, because I have many of those, plus, description will work quite as well to tell them apart.