I requested Reddit to call their robotic vacuums. I wasn’t prepared for Meryl Sweep

Easy. Fairly open-ended.

Inside minutes, I had greater than 50 feedback. I’m a reasonably introverted particular person, in order that degree of, uhhh, engagement felt somewhat scary. As soon as the preliminary anxiousness settled, I found that individuals have robust emotions about their robotic vacuums. Love, hate, disdain. It’s an entire spectrum. And the names? Insanely artistic. The puns alone had me cracking up. With permission from the commenters, I’m sharing a few of their responses right here as a result of, actually, they’re too good to not. One particular person even went with the somewhat hilariously unhinged “Rrrrrrrolling r’srapSCALLION III of the Loinst Quadrant.”

Some Redditors clearly put lots of thought into naming their robotic vacuums. My private favorites? Florence the Machine, Clear Latifah, Meryl Sweep, and Suck Norris. 

Many named their robotic vacuums after fictional characters. One Redditor named theirs Rosie after the robotic maid from The Jetsons. One other named theirs GLaDOS after the maniacal robotic from Portal.

One significantly plucky Redditor named their robotic vacuum Maple after the Toronto Maple Leafs as a result of, effectively, “they suck.” The proprietor’s grandfather apparently disagrees.

Then there’s Margot Robotic 2.0, whose predecessor ultimately died and had to get replaced. And Tony Roomba, who, as u/fierydoxy revealed, “Seems Tony is definitely Antonia Roomba as she has a feminine voice.”