Mary Malmros typed:

It'll come to you, or it won't. I do a lot of sailing with my dad,
and there are a lot of dumbass names hanging off the stern of boats,
clearly chosen for their cutesy effect ("Driftaway, oh my, that's
original..."). That's not the way to name a boat.


Heh, heh. I get equally irritated with personalized license plates.
"MY-Z80", for example, or "MYTOY". I mean, the "MY" is utterly
redundandant, because, to whom does property belong but its owner, fer
Pete's sake? And as far as the "Z80" (or "280Z", or "B610", or
whatever) is concerned, if I know what a Z-80 is, then I know what I'm
looking at already, and if I don't know what a Z-80 is, I probably
don't give a flying hoot. So "MY-Z80" fatuously contains absolutely
zero information content. And that's just one category of dumass
personalized tags. On the other hand, occasionally one does see a
clever one.

But, Mary, if everyone were able to come up with witty or intelligent
names, where would you be? I mean, if everyone were as good with
words as you are, then your wit and erudition would be mundane, and
not worthy of the admiration they deserve.


-Richard, His Kanubic Travesty
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