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[Twister_Ken]

"'Happy Ours' has been declared 2008's most popular boat name, displacing 'Black Pearl' which took the title in 2007. The list of names was compiled by FirstBoat.com in collaboration with several other boating-themed websites in the New England-based Nautical Sites Network.

In second place was 'Carpe Diem', which translates as 'Catch of the Day'*, while 'Aqua-Holic' was the third most popular. The remainder of the top ten were, in order of popularity, 'State of Mind', 'Anchor Management', 'The Office', 'Feelin' Nauti', 'Yes Dear', 'Sundance', and 'Serenity Now'.

'Liberty', 'Second Chance', and 'Wanderlust' are among names which have dropped out of the top ten. "

Motor Boats Monthly, 20 January 2009

*not when I did Latin!

 

[robp]

" *not when I did Latin! "

Grab the Fish innit?

 

[BlueSkyNick]

Only in America....

 

[Parsonsheath]

No, thick (as in dim) fish, innit!

 

[Tidewaiter2]

My Deah Buoy,

it correctly translates as "Seize the Day" in good schools like Ken's comes from, but where I grew up and was taught Latin, it was "seize the Day warmly by the froat, and nut 'im, followed by a knee in the genitalia*, and another in 'is face as he doubled over then scarper quick before 'is mates could react."

My school encouraged us to seize all our chances and exploit them fully to improve our social position and prospects whilst expanding our vocabulary-see* above, "nuts" was considered so proley, Guv.
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[samwise]

Catch of the Day indeed! Sounds like a Rick Stein menu entry. As already posted it is of course "Seize the Day." Still sounds pretentious! What happened to "Wavedancer" and "Blue Horizon" I want to know?

 

[johnalison]

There are cultural differences here. English names are popular in Holland & Germany and I have always been mystified by "Blackhead"

 

[doug748]

Asked by Humph to translate the phrase:
" Sic transit gloria mundi"
The great Willie Rushton came up with:
" Gloria won't be in on Monday, she has been sick in the back of the Transit "

 

[Solitaire]

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In second place was 'Carpe Diem', which translates as 'Catch of the Day'*, while 'Aqua-Holic' was the third most popular. The remainder of the top ten were, in order of popularity, 'State of Mind', 'Anchor Management', 'The Office', 'Feelin' Nauti', 'Yes Dear', 'Sundance', and 'Serenity Now'.

'Liberty', 'Second Chance', and 'Wanderlust' are among names which have dropped out of the top ten. "



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Now I wonder where this name would come in the list?

 

[Tidewaiter2]

Isn't"Blackhead" rendered as "Schwartskopf" in German, perhaps a literal transcribing into English without realising its usual descriptive use in English?

Schwartskopf may mean something somewhere in the N/E Dutch/German pysche/history/????, perhaps a famous privateer, Landsknecght, hero of the Thirty Years War, etc?

Some one clever like Brendan, Dyflin, Twister K can soon enlighten us ?

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[Twister_Ken]

The only Schwartzkopfs I'm aware of are Mr & Mrs Schwartzkopf, known to their friends as Stormin' Norman, and Dame Elizabeth.

But yes, see what you're getting at, sort of Teutonic version of Bluebeard.