{"id":783,"date":"2010-03-11T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/?p=783"},"modified":"2010-03-11T09:00:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T14:00:30","slug":"thursday-poll-buggy-names-good-enough-to-use-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2010\/03\/thursday-poll-buggy-names-good-enough-to-use-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Poll: Buggy names good enough to use twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left:10px; float:right;\" title=\"Cyclone\" src=\"\/img\/news\/Cyclone.jpg\" alt=\"DTD and PiKA's Clyclone\" width=\"360\" height=\"167\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The kids are on spring break this week, and it&#8217;s been breaking 60 degrees here in Pittsburgh all of a sudden.  With warm weather finally on the scene, we&#8217;re close to rolls, and with rolls, we&#8217;re close to new buggies.  Back in my day as a head mechanic, building buggies was challenging, but finding a good name for them was next to impossible.  It&#8217;s tough to sum up all those efforts and all those ambitions.  It&#8217;s easy to end up with something that is so random that it doesn&#8217;t mean anything to anyone.  Maybe even worse though are names that are so obvious that they&#8217;ve already been used.  Are there some names that are good enough to use more than once?<br \/>\nClick through to vote and see the results <br style=\"clear:right;\"\/><!--more--><br \/>\n<div id=\"polls-9\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Which of these reused names was good enough to justify the reuse?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-9-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li>Nemesis - TX '87, PiKA '09 <small>(29%, 14 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 29%;\" title=\"Nemesis - TX &#039;87, PiKA &#039;09 (29% | 14 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Phoenix - DU '??, KDR '87, PiKA '99 <small>(21%, 10 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 21%;\" title=\"Phoenix - DU &#039;??, KDR &#039;87, PiKA &#039;99 (21% | 10 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Pandora - KDR '92, SigEp '06 <small>(13%, 6 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 13%;\" title=\"Pandora - KDR &#039;92, SigEp &#039;06 (13% | 6 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Renaissance - KDR '86, CIA '09 <small>(13%, 6 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 13%;\" title=\"Renaissance - KDR &#039;86, CIA &#039;09 (13% | 6 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Cyclone - DTD '79, PiKA '92 <small>(8%, 4 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 8%;\" title=\"Cyclone - DTD &#039;79, PiKA &#039;92 (8% | 4 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Mirage - KapSig '79, CIA '00 <small>(8%, 4 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 8%;\" title=\"Mirage - KapSig &#039;79, CIA &#039;00 (8% | 4 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Scorpion - SN '75, Pioneers '98 <small>(6%, 3 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 6%;\" title=\"Scorpion - SN &#039;75, Pioneers &#039;98 (6% | 3 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Genesis - Spirit '86, SigEp '00 <small>(2%, 1 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 2%;\" title=\"Genesis - Spirit &#039;86, SigEp &#039;00 (2% | 1 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Pegasus - ZBT '77, Spirit '86, Pioneers '02 <small>(0%, 0 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 1%;\" title=\"Pegasus - ZBT &#039;77, Spirit &#039;86, Pioneers &#039;02 (0% | 0 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Total Voters: <strong>48<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_9_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"33d94b83d0\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Buggy names that were essentially reused by the same organization were not included.  Of course, there might be some I&#8217;ve missed, these are just the ones we have in our <a href=\"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/history\/buggy\">history database of buggies<\/a>. \u00a0If you know of others, let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kids are on spring break this week, and it&#8217;s been breaking 60 degrees here in Pittsburgh all of a sudden. With warm weather finally on the scene, we&#8217;re close to rolls, and with rolls, we&#8217;re close to new buggies. Back in my day as a head mechanic, building buggies was challenging, but finding a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1988,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions\/1988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}