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(102,468 posts)Kablooie
(18,645 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)As stolen from the Flintstones cartoon.
yesphan
(1,588 posts)and long ago owned a small cabin cruiser that
he named Miss Carriage.
pnwest
(3,266 posts)pnwest
(3,266 posts)My art studio is The Cat's Away Studio, i'd have to name it after that...not actually heaving cats overboard
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)he named his boat The Kidd U Not. Also used to have himself paged at the Marina "Call for Captain Kidd". He was a character.
Points off for the traditional spelling of "not" when the nautical pun was right there for him
eppur_se_muova
(36,311 posts)tempting Nature's sense of irony, for sure
lunasun
(21,646 posts)cornball 24
(1,481 posts)Doc_Technical
(3,528 posts)based in Miami
kacekwl
(7,024 posts)Arrow pointing up.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)DMV clerk to Kramer: "You ARE the Assman!"
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The partners asked the staff what they should name it. One of the other secretaries (not me) suggested "My Raise." So that when she saw it on the river, she could tell her friends, "There goes My Raise."
The little game ended immediately after that.
csziggy
(34,139 posts)But the husband of a friend of mine used the money he'd been saving for a boat to buy his new wife a horse. They named the horse Bass Boat.
TheSmarterDog
(794 posts)zanana1
(6,135 posts)jmowreader
(50,572 posts)MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)I'd invite all my political friends and take pictures.
(Obscure reference to see how old you are.)
rzemanfl
(29,579 posts)MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)Don't even know about the truly fun political scandals anymore.
I still blame CNN for trashing him.
trof
(54,256 posts)Lateen rig.
I taught myself to sail in it.
When I climbed in we were already over max gross weight.
Whatever.
It was yellow, as I said.
I christened it (beer) the Chiquita B. because it looked a little like a banana.
And I put the name upside down on the stern.
I figured I'd be bottom side up more than any other configuration.
My first boat was a Sunfish and it had the same rig as the Snark.
Great boats.
Kaleva
(36,372 posts)" In 1906, when Great Britain launched HMS Dreadnought, Congressman Williams introduced a bill to change the name of USS Michigan to USS Skeered O' Nothin' as a challenge to the prestigious English."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sharp_Williams
ailsagirl
(22,901 posts)Just kidding, but it is a bonafide English word
Definition: The action or habit of estimating something as worthless.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/floccinaucinihilipilification
applegrove
(118,870 posts)rzemanfl
(29,579 posts)GP6971
(31,237 posts)"Ah Me"
AJT
(5,240 posts)PJMcK
(22,061 posts)A beautiful small cruising sailboat outfitted for extended sailing was named Wishful Thinking.
She was a beautiful part of my life.
dchill
(38,583 posts)Hoping it would start a tradition. Of floating, and staying afloat.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,927 posts)"Architeuthis." However, if you rename a boat you have to have a ceremony involving sacrificing a certain amount of liquor to the god Poseidon or he will get even and cause your boat to sink.
oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)Loon-a-Sea