Name a boat contest

[Leloo]

So I am sketching up a new novel and I figured it may be fun to get some creative juices from the rest of you. The content does not matter, but who doesn't want a chance to be immortalized in naming a boat in a book?! Basically I need a name for a boat from the colonial times that carried the majority of the town (which the book will be based upon) to New England. It's going to be American gothic style and I will use the boat's name to also tie into the towns name. So if you don't want to participate feel free not to read this or respond but if you'd like to participate please offer up some suggestions.

[Tisket]

The Cheeto

[tyrant-201]

SS Winston Salem Churchill

[Delias]

So I am sketching up a new novel and I figured it may be fun to get some creative juices from the rest of you. The content does not matter, but who doesn't want a chance to be immortalized in naming a boat in a book?! Basically I need a name for a boat from the colonial times that carried the majority of the town (which the book will be based upon) to New England. It's going to be American gothic style and I will use the boat's name to also tie into the towns name. So if you don't want to participate feel free not to read this or respond but if you'd like to participate please offer up some suggestions.

The Ella Rosa

[SHAFT]

Stinkfist

[Gweneivia]

http://www.canadacool.com/COOLFACTS/BRITISH%20COLUMBIA/BCPHOTOS/boat_minnow.jpg

[Delias]

I think you should update it to mexican-american war times and call it "Santa Anna's Stolen Leg".

[Allereli]

The Rewolfyam

[tyrant-201]

The Ron Jeremy. Stand upon the bow, and scream "Thar she blows!"

[Leloo]

Thus far Delias first suggestion and Allereli's are contenders.

[Tisket]

lol read Allereli's backward...

[Leloo]

And that's really neat and something that could speak volumes in itself.

[diethx]

...

[Allereli]

Thus far Delias first suggestion and Allereli's are contenders.

lol I swear I'm trying to think up real suggestions

[senorgordoburro]

Spert

[tyrant-201]

Spert

Bingo. I think we got a winner.

[Latrinsorm]

Avalon
New Albion
Hope

[Delias]

"The Shorn Lion"
"The Lady's Surprise"
"The Dropped Stocking"
"The Wounded Zephyr"
"Norse Resolve"
"Unwed Olga"

[Mogonis]

Das Boot

[SHAFT]

Hooker with a penis
My little chicken
The Orca

[Drew]

The Pelican

[tyrant-201]

Candor's Abrasive Gay Buttsex.

Too long?

[Mogonis]

The Badlock

[Delias]

"Locke's Mistress"
"The Rattled Spaniard"
"Misspent Coin"
"Forlorn Wayfarer"
"The Unrepentant Ass"

[Aluvius]

"I'm On It"

[cwolff]

Colonial is pretty broad. Can you narrow down the approximate years and the motivations for leaving the old country?

Forebearance
Prudence
The Stoic
The Salvation
Ambivalent
The Prosperous

[Leloo]

The boat will be coming from the east (think not France, England but the darker "unknown" countries akin to where Dracula came in the mysterious dark unknown continent) and will be a sort of Noah's Ark, carrying families of "other" beings from death in Europe to salvation in the New World. And the town will be designed on a spiral form centering around a lavish graveyard. So it needs to be a non-American name, it predates America and represents an old, non-human world

[Delias]

"Delias's Ex Wife- offering free passage"

[Jarvan]

Calgon

So when they get on all the Passengers can say "Calgon, take me away!"

[diethx]

So what's the contest part? What does the winner get for winning?

[Delias]

Sojourner

[tyrant-201]

The boat will be coming from the west and will be a sort of Noah's Ark, carrying families of "other" beings from death in Europe to salvation in the New World. And the town will be designed on a spiral form centering around a lavish graveyard. So it needs to be a non-American name, it predates America and represents an old, non-human world

How does a boat get to New England from the west? Marco Polo style? Seems like a long way to go when you could just travel across the Atlantic. Plus this is before the panama canal and that shit.

[Delias]

How does a boat get to New England from the west? Marco Polo style? Seems like a long way to go when you could just travel across the Atlantic. Plus this is before the panama canal and that shit.

Strait of Magellan.

[Leloo]

So what's the contest part? What does the winner get for winning?

You get the boat named after you! Plus I guess if you want I could add you in the "thank you" page at the beginning should it get published.

[diethx]

Non-human world? SO wait, this is another planet that also has a Europe and New England?

[diethx]

You get the boat named after you! Plus I guess if you want I could add you in the "thank you" page at the beginning should it get published.

Oh, I just figured this was going to go on your Live Journal.

[tyrant-201]

Strait of Magellan.

Oh I understand geography enough to know there's other ways. Just uh.. doesn't make sense I guess. One trip is considerably longer than the other, unless she has a reason for them going the other way. Which.. she probably does.

[Moonwitch]

The adventurer

[SHAFT]

the nebuchadnezzar

[Leloo]

Heh sorry about that, fixed it, watching a movie so I mistyped, basically the boat is coming from the European confident.

[cwolff]

The Refuge
The Retreat

[Mogonis]

The Dadgummit

[leifastagsweed]

http://www.canadacool.com/COOLFACTS/BRITISH%20COLUMBIA/BCPHOTOS/boat_minnow.jpg

Nordred?

[Androidpk]

Godenfroy
Pax Imperius

[Latrinsorm]

The boat will be coming from the east (think not France, England but the darker "unknown" countries akin to where Dracula came in the mysterious dark unknown continent) and will be a sort of Noah's Ark, carrying families of "other" beings from death in Europe to salvation in the New World. And the town will be designed on a spiral form centering around a lavish graveyard. So it needs to be a non-American name, it predates America and represents an old, non-human worldVeles is the Slavic underworld/waters god, but isn't so Slavic that you have to break your keyboard to type it or exhaust your quota of z-clusters, plus is an anagram of wessel.

Miorita is "the little ewe", a famous Romanian story/song, which could also make for cool scary music when the book is turned into a movie. Spoiler alert: everything Slavic is depressing...

I (http://www.swordhand.com/styled-3/styled-8/index.html) must also mention the Miorita (pronounced Mio-ritsa), a folk ballad from Romania that tells the story of a beautiful young shepherd and his grisly murder at the hands of two supposed comrades. The exact meaning of the song is disputed in academic circles; I chose one meaning and used it as suited my story; others would disagree with the conclusion that the message of the song is to teach us to be ready to accept death, in order that we may live free from fear of it, but this seems the most apt and poetic interpretation.

In the same vein, Ileana is a character in Romanian folklore. Beautiful princess, blah blah blah.

[Leloo]

Veles is the Slavic underworld/waters god, but isn't so Slavic that you have to break your keyboard to type it or exhaust your quota of z-clusters, plus is an anagram of wessel.

Miorita is "the little ewe", a famous Romanian story/song, which could also make for cool scary music when the book is turned into a movie. Spoiler alert: everything Slavic is depressing...

I (http://www.swordhand.com/styled-3/styled-8/index.html) must also mention the Miorita (pronounced Mio-ritsa), a folk ballad from Romania that tells the story of a beautiful young shepherd and his grisly murder at the hands of two supposed comrades. The exact meaning of the song is disputed in academic circles; I chose one meaning and used it as suited my story; others would disagree with the conclusion that the message of the song is to teach us to be ready to accept death, in order that we may live free from fear of it, but this seems the most apt and poetic interpretation.

In the same vein, Ileana is a character in Romanian folklore. Beautiful princess, blah blah blah.

These are all incredibly beautiful suggestions. I love the way the words sound and feel on your tongue. Ileana I may have to keep for a character name, that is wonderful. Fantastic suggestions!

[Latrinsorm]

:) Thanks I'm glad you like them.

[MotleyCrew]

Eveline
Lauradana
Nicoleta

[Dhe'nar Witch]

Maidens Pride

[SHAFT]

The sea bitch!

[Some Rogue]

The Exodus
The Diaspora

[Ardwen]

Clearly the choices of a central european Ship's name are simple

Flotsam
Jetsam

Because thats what happens when countries with no real maritime history try to sail

[4a6c1]

Awesome idea. I can't wait to read it. Don't forget to post when it's finished. It's been a while since we had some literary talent of our own around here. Nikki used to write. I wonder if she ever finished her book.

Here are my ideas stolen from the abridged international goetia and Crowley works. I basically ctrl + f } water and gave you the ones that didn't sound terrible. I thought the supernatural quality might help your aesthetic.

The Vepar or simply Vepar. (my fav of the three)

The 42d spirit is Named Vepar he is a great & strong duke, & appeareth like a Mairmaid, his office is to guide ye waters, & ships Ladden wth armour thereon he will at ye [will of the] Exorcist cause ye seas to be rough and stormy, and to appeare full of ships he causeth men to dye in 3 dayes wth putrifying their sores and wounds, & causing wormes in them [106v] to bred &c he governeth 29 Legions of spirits, his seal is Thus to be made and worne as a Lamin &c.

Zebaoth

which Moses named & all the Rivers & waters in the land of Ægypt

Paimon

he can discover wt ye Earth is, and wt holdeth it up in ye waters, & wt ye wind is or where it is, or any other Thing yu desire to know,

http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/goetia.htm

[Gweneivia]

Carpathia
Costa Concordia
Britannic
Lusitania
Vasa
Estonia

[Tenlaar]

I can't wait to read your Defiance fanfic. I bet it's hawt.

[4a6c1]

Speaking of fanfics. Didn't we have a resident fanfic author or was that Nikki too?

[tyrant-201]

Speaking of fanfics. Didn't we have a resident fanfic author or was that Nikki too?

Nikki did use to write a lot, yeah. Zombie shit and stuff like that.

[Latrinsorm]

Dex has a significant corpus of fanfiction that she refuses to share, just throwing that out there.

[Ardwen]

ya could use Cthulhu Risen, great name hah

[Sile]

The Impaler

[Dayko]

The Great Penetrator

[nichelas]

Cruentus

Latin.

[DCSL]

Dex has a significant corpus of fanfiction that she refuses to share, just throwing that out there.

Why would you do this to me?

[Latrinsorm]

I am helpless against lust! Lust for embarrassing fan fiction! I'll trade you what I wrote about Avril! (That will never ever happen.)

[leifastagsweed]

Coincidentally, I was named after this ship...that sank. Thanks, Dad.

http://domenicadelcorriere.fotoblog.it/photos/medium_andrea-doria.jpg

[4a6c1]

Why would you do this to me?

Are you that bad? :P



Coincidentally, I was named after this ship...that sank. Thanks, Dad.

http://domenicadelcorriere.fotoblog.it/photos/medium_andrea-doria.jpg

I was almost named after my grandmother. Like, they changed their minds in the birthing room. I would have liked to have been a Muriel. I'll never forgive them for naming me after a bird of spring!

[Latrinsorm]

I don't know, Albatross is a pretty distinctive name.

edit: to clarify, for RojoDiscos, I don't love it as a name for a boat

[SonoftheNorth]

http://deepfriedhoodsiecups.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/cazzo.png

[4a6c1]

I don't know, Albatross is a pretty distinctive name.

Oooh. One witty bird metaphor deserves another. Maybe I'll just leave this.....here.....

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb315/moonlit-sonnet/Glitter/flamingo.gif

[KneeCapper]

Hell I'll even let you name it after my Yacht "My Dixie Wrecked"

[DCSL]

Are you that bad? :P


Yes and no. Certainly I wasn't Stephen King a decade and a half ago. I'm still not but I'm much better now. Much. But I'm also a crazed perfectionist about my work and it's only under the veil of anonymity that I feel free to let people read it. If someone I actually knew were to read it... well. It just wouldn't happen, because I'd be doing constant re-writes trying to achieve perfection and I wouldn't let them read it until said perfection had been achieved.

[leifastagsweed]

Are you that bad? :P




I was almost named after my grandmother. Like, they changed their minds in the birthing room. I would have liked to have been a Muriel. I'll never forgive them for naming me after a bird of spring!

OHMAHGAH!!! The other name my MOM wanted was Miriam. I mean it when I say Thank you, Dad. Hahahaha. (also, weird we could have both had really unique 1800s names)