Pop quiz!

[bktheirregular]

You're in charge of a shipping line serving the Greek islands. You've just been told that the line's acquired some new boats: four catamaran-hulled ferries capable of cruising at thirty-five knots, carrying four hundred passengers apiece, with room on their garage decks for sixty cars. These are the fastest, most modern boats in service in the eastern Med.

What do you name those four ships?

Prize: a Coke bottle full of genuine Cycladic beach sand to the most evocative answer. And another bottle to the closest guess to what they actually got named...

Comments

[hawkmoth.livejournal.com]

OK, I'll bite...

Name them after the four winds in Greek mythology:

Zephyr (West)

Boreas (North)

Notus (South)

Eurus (East)

Or not...

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

What do you name those four ships?

Anything but Olympic, Titanic, Brittanic...no, wait, never mind. There were only three of those. (Though I think White Star kinda wished they hadn't bothered by the time they were done!)

Hmmmm...

Odysseus, Jason, Achilles, Ajax (substitute Agamemnon for one of them if you like, but I'll never forgive him for Iphigenia)

Circe, Calypso, Medea, Siren (sorry, couldn't resist *eg*)

Boreas, Zephyros, Euros, Notos

And another bottle to the closest guess to what they actually got named...

Larry, Mo, Curly and Shemp? ;-)

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

I would like to point out that I didn't see this before I posted my comment. ;-)

[bktheirregular]

Anything but Olympic, Titanic, Brittanic...

Funny note: if I have my facts straight, the original name of the Britannic was gonna be the Gigantic. Which idea got quickly changed about the time of the iceberg...

Larry, Mo, Curly and Shemp?

Not even close, I'm afraid. That at least shows imagination, and I think the shipping line's Marketing Department decided what to name the ferries...

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

Funny note: if I have my facts straight, the original name of the Britannic was gonna be the Gigantic. Which idea got quickly changed about the time of the iceberg...

Correctamundo. (Became a moderate Titanic geek when I was in the musical last year.)

That at least shows imagination,

Oh, dear. So O'Neill, Carter, Jackson and Teal'c are right out.

and I think the shipping line's Marketing Department decided what to name the ferries...

Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo?

Athens, Ilium, Sparta, Korinth?

Ferry, Ship, Boat, Barge?

One, Two, Three, Four?

Just how unimaginative are we talking here?

[celli]

Fast, Really Fat, The Fastest, and Get Out of the Way?

*giggle*