Why do they call it the Dumbell Nebula?

OK, so astronomers aren't always the most inventive or practical when it comes to naming objects they've stumbled across in deep space.  Take this image at right for example; it's called the "Dumbell Nebula" (and is also numbered M27, being one of the ever popular Messier objects.) Sure, go ahead and squint your eyes and twist your head a bit. You're right - it doesn't look like a dumbell.  To me a dumbell is two sets of flat plates or two steel balls at either end of a steel bar. Do you see a steel bar in the middle? Nope, didn't think so. OK, so I propose a new name; how about the Apple Core Nebula?  It doesn't take a whole lot of squinting and gyrations to see an apple core -- red skin top and bottom, white core with half the flesh missing where someone has chomped clear around the middle of the apple.  Makes sense to me.  OK - is the IAU (International Astronomical Union) listening?  If you're trying to clean up the facts in the human database of astronomical understanding to the extent that Pluto can be demoted as a planet, then why not fix up a few of the goofier names?  Apple Core or Dumbell?  Uh ha: I rest my case ;-)