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[yendi]

A number of you have names for your domiciles. britgeekgrrl lives in Casa Cthulhu; vidicon and bheansidhe reside in the International House of Blasphemy (aka the IHOB); charlesb and company live in The House on Mason Mill.

So how about the rest of you? Are shadesong and I the only ones not living in a Named Abode? Feel free to explain your reason for giving (or not giving) your house a name in comments.

[Poll #146896]

Comments

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

Hey, Yendi, the cut tag is bad for the poll "[Bad username in LJ tag]Poll #146896"

[yendi]

Thanks -- fixed it!

[elorie.livejournal.com]

Our house is named Casa del Caos for fairly obvious reasons

[elorie.livejournal.com]

I can't get the poll to work, either.

I think "Nexus Point" would be a good name. Apropos and somewhat punny.

[rosefox]

I hold nexuspoint but have never used it, so if you wanted to name it that, I'd be happy to donate the community for the cause. *)

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Ooooh.

Temptation.

[silme.livejournal.com]

We should have a name. The neighbours on either side do. We're even in a country in which your address can be your name, house name, street, town, etc. We've been thinking about it. It is a big deal, naming your house. :)

[ginger]

Right now, I live with joyce in Phoenix House, so called because we've finally risen from the ashes of some funky roommate situations. Our last place was named Ground Zero, and when I live by myself at the end of the year, my place will be named the Neon Volcano. :)

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

The history behind "Casa Cthulhu" is a long one. The short version is that it's easier to name the house than say "Johanna, Alex and Dave's Place"... Dave's long gone, but the name stuck around, probably because of my determined sense of whimsy. :)

(pointless background because I'm avoiding work)

Before "Casa Cthulhu", there was "Miskatonic Acres", following a comment about what the house looks like in bad light and a bunch of us getting very loopy after moving boxes all day without anything to eat (An HPL version of the "Green Acres" song was sung, and you can imagine how that went...). Before that, the household was Arkham, which caused no end of trouble with the neighbors who, upon seeing that on the nameplate, thought that was our name, not the household's. We finally got used to being called "Mr & Mrs Arkham"... *chuckle*

[cissa.livejournal.com]

I also don't name vehicles. It's hard enough to think of names for things that need 'em. Like cats. And jewelry intended for showing (so I get really creative, like Medievaloid Brooch #1, which when finished will be followed by MB#2, which will hopefullyt work out the way I wanted #1 to).

[auryn29a.livejournal.com]

Okay, woah. That was weird. I thought I was answering a post by bayushi. You two now have the same icon.

I have a problem naming inanimate objects. I don't know why. I call my car the USS Nightfall mostly 'cause a friend started calling it that.

I've no idea what I would call my house if I did name it. Maybe I should ask others.

[yendi]

Well, I just swiped the icon from Phil Foglio's page, so I'm guessing others might have done the same thing. It's the big underground community of Winslow worshipers. :-)

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

Ours still doesn't have a name, because nothing's seemed right. Gabriel keeps pushing The House of Benevolent Repose from Vernor Vinge's A Fire in the Deep. How the hell would you shorten THAT though?

[yendi]

THoBR, of course!

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

Which could be pronounced like "sober" with a lisp.

And when you go to a party or a gathering there, you can say you're going to go "thober up", whereupon you will likely get many an askance glance.

I like it!

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

*laughs* That's great. *ponders more upon this*

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

*snicker* Oh, I could see so many places that could go...

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

I haven't lived in a named house yet; my residences don't have enough mojo to them to deserve it. People just don't gather enough at my place. No point in naming an unimportant non-nexus type place.

On the other hand, I name my cars as soon as possible. :)

The Facility in the Middle of Nowhere

[spc476.livejournal.com]

I came across a place (http://boston.conman.org/2002/2/6.3) actually called “The Facility in the Middle of Nowhere” and since he place we were moving was a minimum of two miles from any form of convienence store (or any type of store for that matter) I decided the new place should have the same name.

-spc (The real Facility in the Middle of Nowhere seems to be near Mt. Wilson in California)

[lordrexfear.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm not gonna make you nerd guess.

I don't live in a house... I live in an apartment, which as a whole since my crap is all over it could be... The Den of Inequity.

It's a reference to the film "Morgan Stewart's Coming Home". Not a great movie, but a great geek/nerd film.

Re: house names

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

A friend of ours even made us a plaque. There's a worm ouroborous around the outside and the inside says: Strangeland, don't be a Stranger.

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

The Great Lemon... well I don't suppose the house is actually NAMED that but that is certainly how I think of it. The reason? Heating doesn't work right. Electric work is... dodgy. Everything when we got here (including obvious stuff you should not paint over, like the camera for the alarm system, and really important stuff like the knobs to turn on the radiators) had been painted over. The garage roof leaks. The plumbing... well, I can't remember whether it is three or four times that the plumbing has backed up all over the side patio (these are the ONLY times I am thankful we have no garage), but I personally unclogged the drain on two of these occasions. The people who owned the house before us put an extension on the back and fouled up the interior walls so we have two looooooooooong narrow rooms that are dark and horrid and not _quite_ useful. They also painted over the rotten fence instead of replacing it. The garden has improved considerably since I got here (you can see the path down the south side - when I started I did not KNOW there was a path there, the jasmine etc. had grown over it)... it had not been maintained for several months when we moved in. There is horrible cheap cream-coloured carpet in the whole house except the kitchen, which has badly-fitted plastic hardwood-look flooring. When we moved in we had leaky valves and things as well. The shower is more a trickle.

The refrigerator works. The washing machine works. The gas supply works and does not leak. The building is structurally sound (so far). For these things, I am grateful.

*touch synthetic chipboard*

[shugenja.livejournal.com]

Being military, we move too much. Base housing is rather stripped and soulless. Well, that's not quite accurate. I'm pretty sure we have a ghost. But it might just be our family ghost. He follows us. Dunno - it would be the first time he ever messed with fire alarms. Whoops! S'cuse me. Rambling.

Mom and I named our family branches a lot. She and I made up the Wingit family. My psuedo-Irish paternal relatives were the Clan - resulting in their giant beer-soaked parties to end up with the moniker "Clan Bakes." And she named our yearly party "The Annual End-of-School, Beginning-of-Summer Picnic and Debauch." But not our house. ::shrug::

Eventually, Bear and I will get a house of our own. It is possible, perhaps even probable, that we'll name it when we do.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Penguinboi said I should tell ya but any X-Men reader will know The Aerie was the name of Forge's lair in a huge empty office building in Dallas.

[chorus-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to come up with one for this place since we moved in....It's so much bigger and better than anything we had before, but the old house we lived in used to be my grandmother's and grandfather's, and I miss them coming to visit. I don't know if they can find me 900 miles away.

There are three spirits here in this house, it 87 years old, so kind of expected. They are all pretty friendly or neutral, one a bit pranky, but minor stuff. (unrolling all the toliet paper.)

I haven't really had a chance to establish it as "MINE" yet, with the inlaws visiting this upcoming weekend setting up an altar and doing wards and all the other crap that comes with me living in a house just hasn't been feasabile, since I will have to remove the offense alter and hide stuff when they get here. Damn it. I hate that shit.

A house doesn't feel mine unless I've got dedicated worship space.

I need to name my current car too, it's just been the silver streak taxi service up until now, but since Im' 900 miles away from mom and not playing taxi for anyone...I think a new name is needed. Silver 2000 Oldsmobile Alero. Any suggestions?