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« Reply #125 on: September 07, 2007, 11:15:56 pm » |
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I, as it should be clear, would name my ship "Eudora." Don't ask me why. It's just... a thing.
If it were a military ship... it would be called the Eponymous. It's a joke, you see. Because almost all of the old ships I hear about are either named after someone, or a long word.
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Captain C.B. Quinn, of the Airship Eudora.
PRIVATEER IN ACCORDANCE WITH DECREE BY HIS MAJESTY EMPEROR NORTON I.
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« Reply #126 on: September 07, 2007, 11:29:16 pm » |
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I'd name mine Ave Maria.
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« Reply #127 on: September 07, 2007, 11:42:24 pm » |
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Albatross!!!
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« Reply #128 on: September 08, 2007, 02:47:32 am » |
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What flavor is it?
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« Reply #129 on: September 08, 2007, 02:54:21 am » |
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"Mysterious Cigar Shaped Object"
or alternately
"Hillbilly Scarer"
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« Reply #130 on: September 08, 2007, 02:58:28 am » |
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« Reply #131 on: September 11, 2007, 11:58:37 pm » |
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Depends upon the LTA gas... For hydrogen, "Proton Torpedo" or "Proton Bomb".
For Helium, "Noble Giant"
Or perhaps, simply, "Gassy McWindbag"
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« Reply #132 on: September 12, 2007, 01:03:53 am » |
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"Fortune's Folly" because the day Baron von Sasha gets a zeppelin is an unfortunate day indeed! Well, for everyone who isn't me. Having just googled that name, it appears my zeppelin will be sharing its name with a romance novel. How dreadful for that book's author.  |
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« Reply #133 on: September 12, 2007, 01:13:00 am » |
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With that zeppelin/novel-combo you just made me imagine a pink zeppelin with lots of fluff and bows and a crocheted antimacassar on top.  |
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Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco", which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of a High Misdemeanor, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars. (Emperor Norton I of the US, 1872)
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« Reply #134 on: September 12, 2007, 02:25:50 am » |
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Dear oskila,
i like the description...I wonder if it would look like a flying pink elephant....or give you the element of surprise as your adversaries gape at the fluffy pink zep flying toward them.
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« Reply #135 on: September 12, 2007, 03:36:31 am » |
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With that zeppelin/novel-combo you just made me imagine a pink zeppelin with lots of fluff and bows and a crocheted antimacassar on top. ME, in a pink zeppelin?! Tosh! It would be shiny and new and probably have some poor unfortunate soul's name on the title. Assuming zeppelins need titles as cars do... |
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« Reply #136 on: September 12, 2007, 03:59:17 am » |
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With that zeppelin/novel-combo you just made me imagine a pink zeppelin with lots of fluff and bows and a crocheted antimacassar on top. In the "Age of Sail", bored crewmembers on long voyages created some amazingly-decorative bits of fancywork in cordage and canvas I see no reason 'blue sky" sailors would allow themselves to be outdone by their "blue-water" brethren  " The Marlinspike Sailor" by Hervey Garrett Smith (ISBN 0070592187 and available in full, as page-images, via Google Book Search) is something of the modern (circa 1950) 'Holy Writ' on the subject. A most useful and amusing book. |
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« Reply #137 on: September 12, 2007, 04:01:00 am » |
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Or perhaps, simply, "Gassy McWindbag"
That sounds like the kind of name one of the charachters in 8-bit Theater would come up with.... Either that or the Flying Deathtrap....  |
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"It is by steam alone that I set my contraptions in motion.
It is by combustion of coal and boiling water that the engines acquire speed.
For protection, the eyes acquire goggles,
The goggles become a warning.
It is by steam alone that I set my contraptions in motion."
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« Reply #138 on: September 12, 2007, 04:12:22 am » |
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The Triumph!
I mean, it's a zeppelin. It has to have a powerful name! Can't settle for something that won't hold any air...
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« Reply #139 on: September 12, 2007, 04:13:46 am » |
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The HMS Oh God I Hope This Thing Floats or Large Floating Thing.
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« Reply #140 on: September 12, 2007, 11:09:01 pm » |
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With that zeppelin/novel-combo you just made me imagine a pink zeppelin with lots of fluff and bows and a crocheted antimacassar on top. a little to euphemistic for my taste... |
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« Reply #141 on: September 13, 2007, 02:54:23 am » |
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So... How about 'Steely Dan'...? |
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« Reply #142 on: September 13, 2007, 03:50:45 am » |
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The Triumph!
I mean, it's a zeppelin. It has to have a powerful name! Can't settle for something that won't hold any air...
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« Reply #143 on: September 13, 2007, 07:58:16 am » |
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The Triumph!
I mean, it's a zeppelin. It has to have a powerful name! Can't settle for something that won't hold any air...
Sorry about the dodgy electrics... Did their lights really have three settings? Off, flicker, and dim? Charleson Mambo |
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« Reply #144 on: September 13, 2007, 05:02:44 pm » |
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So... How about 'Steely Dan'...? You mean Steely Dan 3 from Yokahama...? |
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« Reply #145 on: September 13, 2007, 06:21:23 pm » |
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So... How about 'Steely Dan'...? You mean Steely Dan 3 from Yokahama...? HA! My mom is always talking about him! If i had a Zeppelin it would be named the Great Zephyr of the Sky! I know its a long name! |
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« Reply #146 on: September 13, 2007, 07:42:43 pm » |
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Possibly "Big Brother", with a sign trailing behind it saying (of course) "big Brother is Watching You).
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« Reply #147 on: September 13, 2007, 09:28:10 pm » |
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« Reply #148 on: September 13, 2007, 09:44:11 pm » |
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"Wall's"
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« Reply #149 on: September 14, 2007, 08:01:16 am » |
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So... How about 'Steely Dan'...? You mean Steely Dan 3 from Yokahama...? It suits an airship, doesn't it? Metallic, rigid, steam-powered, and sets ladies hearts aflutter. |
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