I remember in the past an excellent system using Sesame Street characters names.
I've done things like this, but I confine it to my workstations. My network devices and production systems follow a pretty straightforward naming system.
Workstations in past lives have been:
Addams Family characers (lurch, gomez, pugsley...)
Guitar effects (whammy, distortion, reverb, delay...)
Nothing (nullroute, bitbucket, discard...)
jms
Neil J. McRae wrote:
I remember in the past an excellent system using Sesame Street characters names.
/me awaits super-super-grover...
This only works in small shops. If you have more routers than muppets, you
have a problem. Had a lab once where we named machines after colors. That
hit some snarls when we discovered nobody in the lab could consistently spell
'fuschia', 'mauve', or 'paisley'. 
Star Trek Federation Starships... they seem to invent more daily, so no problems running out.
If your DNS is RFC3490-enabled, you can go for the Klingon and Romulan
ships too. Particularly handy if you're into security through obscurity.
Doesn't scale though 
Hence the rapid emergence of southpark-naming-draft-001.txt,
flintstones-naming-draft-001.txt. Not to mention the grover /
super-grover / new-grover / new-super-grover incident.
Regards,
Tim.