Zia promptly christened East's effort the Balmoral Coup, partly because he had recently visited that Scottish town favored by royalty, and partly because Rosenberg is a Scot.

Capt. Inkar was given a brand new battle cruiser of the Fusuf class to replace his unfit wreck and he promptly christened it Paito again like his old ship.

These Golgafrinchans arrived in a space ark which crashed into the planet circa 2 mya, promptly christening their new home "Fintlewoodlewix" (though obviously the name didn't stick).

Then, to make things worse, he left his longtime agent, Pat Kavanagh, who happened to be the wife of his friend Julian Barnes, for the American agent Andrew Wylie, whom the British press promptly christened "the Jackal" - a nickname that has stuck ever since.

Since it grew on palmlike trees, the humans promptly christened it a "kiwi-date" or "kate" fruit.

The Marines had encountered the legumes before, and promptly christened them bullybeans, but they'd never seen the other crop, and the locals seemed to be planting a lot of it.

I pestered all three of my parents with endless questions, and finally, in exasperation, they bought me a computer, which I promptly christened TAM (for The Answer Machine).

In 1884 Calcutta Cricket and Football Club once again set up a rugby section and in 1890 set up an inter club trophy, the Calcutta Rugby Union Challenge Cup, promptly christened the Calcutta Cup.

This was the official title of the regiment, but for some reason or other the public promptly christened us the "Rough Riders."

With the same poignant sense of public relations that had him patting the head of a child hostage on television, Mr. Hussein promptly christened his newest missile "the Stone," after the rocks hurled at the Jewish worshipers at the Western Wall.