Well, there's the "Finger globule":
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0404495
I heard that the first author of that paper was having problems with his former advisor... we wondered whether it was the title of the paper that had anything to do with it.
There's also the "Green Goober" nebula, but I don't know if anyone outside of Astronomy Camp calls it that.
Green Goober - NGC 7027
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