Ever Nickname Your Gear?

Howdy folks,

I've got a pair of Sportiva Solutions that I've dubbed "The Fake Tits". My buddy, at the gym I learned to climb in, sold me a pair of Solutions one day for $80. Later I found out they were from the lost and found bin and belonged to a girl that had been MIA for a while. Turns out she was having an operation to get fake breasts so I got my cash back and returned them. I eventually got my own pair and thought, "Huh, these sure do augment my performance, almost unfairly so... kinda like a pair of fake tits." Boom, nickname established.

Any of you ever nickname your gear? What's the story behind 'em?

I personally wouldn't consider climbing shoes gear. No I don't have any nicknames for my gear.

Valuable input.

I want to climb with that girl. I just refer to all my gear as widgets.

Haha, haven't seen her in years now. Maybe if you wander the gyms in NH you'll find her. I might have to start using "widgets" when referring to pro just to confuse my partners.

My #1 tcu has likely held more falls than any other piece of gear on my rack. I refer to it as baby blue. My ex girlfriend is"borrowing"it at the moment. I sure how i see baby blue (and the rest of my cams again)

I've dubbed my enormous belay parka, a Marmot 8000 meter parka, "Big Blue", as its big and blue. Differentiates it from my other down jackets.
Likewise, the #6/#5 (old school) camalot and the #6 friend are referred to as the Jolly Green Giants in casual usage (e.g. with the people familiar with the names "grab me the jolly green giant from the bin")
Otherwise, no nicknames.

Anyone remember the nickname Pamela Shanti Pack has for her behemoth 12" Valley Giant offwidth cam? Can't remember it or find it right now, but it made me chuckle when I read it in an article she wrote.

I have a draw with two blue anges we would call ol' blue. We made it customary to clip ol' blue in the first bolt of every route we climbed. It became superstition as if the one time we didn't clip ol' blue first, we'd fall and die.

My partner and I named our aging workhorse rope the old whippersnapper. We imagined it was nearing the end of it's life and one large whipper away from snapping clean.

Cams= squeezies.

Bought a Sterling Marathon Pro dry rope a few years ago. It was scary slick when new, and dirt didn't dare stick to it. It got nicknamed "Slick Willy".

My brother-in-law gifted me with a #5 Camalot, which was far bigger than all the rest of my gear. It has been nicknamed "Andre" (for Andre the Giant).

Not sure how original the nicknames are but we affectionately refer to the #6.0 Tricam as the Donkey Killer and its slightly larger brother the 7.0 was dubbed the Pony Killer. One look at those monsters and its easy to see why...

Mitch calls the #5, the "big mama jama". I have little red Hugh Banner that I call "little red".

I have a nickname for my penis. It's called the Octagon, but I also nicknamed my testes. My left one is James Westfall and my right one is Doctor Kenneth Noisewater.

You ladies play your cards right you just might get to meet the whole gang...

Depends on how well they go into a placement..my gear can go from C*&KS*%#ER to Ohhh baby!