The FINAL things about to moggie or not to moggie

[Onne]

The grand final about the name of our beloved Morris Minor!

What do YOU call 'em?

[chickenjohn]

I call mine "rusty"!

[Matt]

I call mine "KIA - Need Replacement"

[Pyoor_Kate]

Well, mine gets called at various times:

Rebecca
'becca
Beccamog
Moggie
The Minor
Babe

.... there are other names I use when things aren't going so well, most of them start with a four+ing letter f word and then some other phrase....

[turbominor]

Moggie
The Minor
Babe

.... there are other names I use when things aren't going so well, most of them start with a four+ing letter f word and then some other phrase....

same here!!!

plus emily of course

Wait till you get the 1300 carb and big exhaust.. they you can start patting the dash and saying well done babe after you have been tarmac terorising!

[paulk]

Most of the things I call it could't be written before the watershed but moggy gets my vote

Paulk

[Pyoor_Kate]

Wait till you get the 1300 carb and big exhaust.. they you can start patting the dash and saying well done babe after you have been tarmac terorising!

I did that with the 1098. Most kids can't actually *drive* - so they've got this stoopid big engine and so on, and a decent pull away in the minor'll leave them in the dust. They're looking puzzled as to why they're behind the ratty looking blue minor.... and I'm grinning and patting the dashboard.

Not that I do this often, but sometimes it's just fun.

[Multiphonikks]

heh

I call Hebe "Hebe", "baby", "my moggie", "My Minor", "Old girl".

And yes, I pat her on the hump just above her speedo every time she gets up the hill on the way to bitton from Bath

[fweddy]

While many have there pet names for their individual cars, here "morrie" is the general for a morris minor - or frequently a "Morrie Minor". Since it is usally said and when written its the proper Morris Minor, "Morrie" gets spelt a number of ways; Morrie, Morry, and on personalised number plates when every one is trying to get one that's not used; Mori, Mory, Morri

In the UK it seems to be Moggy more (and the poll shows that). Here I think I might have heard it once.

[Lou]

Well, as we all know, 'moggy' is actually the term for...

Bert is either known as The Mogstar, Snort (because she reminds me of my pet chinchillas, Bill and Ben (aka the Snorts) - it's a shape thing) or that pain in the bum car. Oddly, never Bert.

[turbominor]

I pat her on the hump just above her speedo

wish i had a hump to pat on emily

[Cam]

I pat her on the hump just above her speedo

wish i had a hump to pat on emily

You don't mean that!

[Onne]

I do too.... she deserves a pat on the hump.....

[Gareth]

Oooh, no, stop messin' about! ;)

Phyllis is regularly known as, Phyllis, Old Dear, Old Thing, Old Girl and is regularly patted on the hump, Matron.

I don't often refer to her as a Moggy. If other do, then I won't correct or dissuade them from it, but she is usually called by name than anything else... There again, I'm mad as toast, me.

[Onne]

I must add, I never call her moggy, unless speaking to you lot. Moggy just doesn't sound Dutch at all

[doobry]

Moggy just doesn't sound Dutch at all

probably because it is the English term....

Wouldn't the dutch term be Moouuurggahy? (sorry )

[Onne]

just Minor.... or Morrisje or Saloontje but then this would be too hard for you to read...... Don't hear a lot of english people speaking dutch.... even the kids here speak English

[hornmeister2000]

Well, as we all know, 'moggy' is actually the term for...

Call me naïve, but... what?

P.S. Morrie doesn't sound right. We call her the "little mog"

[Lou]

Sorry, just my little joke re the Morgan owner who purports that moggy is in fact short for Morgan (see previous threads) Chorus: Oh no it isn't

[hornmeister2000]

Thanks!