My Girlfriend’s Funny Names Anthology

For non-living things

Göktuğ Okumuş
The Slush Pile
2 min readMar 22, 2021

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My girlfriend; I guess she was giving names 20 years ago too.

In this writing, you will meet with funny names which my girlfriend is giving to non-living things. It’s one of the signature behaviors which she does all the time. Let’s start!

Part 1 — Flowers:

Red:

She named our Euphorbia Pulcherrima flower Red. Unfortunately, Red’s life was short; he was very cool and charismatic like the tv serial character -Raymond ‘Red’ Reddington- but he died from insufficient sunlight. We were sad.

Rosie:

Another deceased flower of us; a rose. Yeap! Very creative.

Ficus 1 and Ficus 2:

These two are the names of our Ficus Benjamin Starlight brothers. Unfortunately, we lost Ficus 2; he died because he was jealous of his brother is number 1.

Note; We have a lot of living flowers, we are not poor about growing plants as you thought at the moment. My girlfriend is following someone she calls flower professor these days and growing avocados and mangos.

Part 2 — Household Appliances:

Mr. Purple, Mr. Blue, and Pinky:

Yeap, these are their colors; Mr. Purple is the vacuum cleaner, Mr. Blue is the dustpan, and Pinky is the carpet sweeper because we have a dog; called Gucci.

Part 3 — Others:

Şmıg:

She is calling Şmıg to the dust in her camera.

Diego and Franchesko:

Her new acnes’ names, they love chips, tomatoes, and chocolates.

Jack and Zinaida:

Jack is her tote bag with dog face and ears.

Zinaida is her other tote bag with cat face and ears.

And besides these, there are Rudolph, Karlos, Pablo, Fran, Cami, and Nikolai.

Maybe next time I’ll tell you about them.

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