My understanding has always been ships are refered to as women because if you dont treat them gently, they'll be mean. With that said, i have had a chance to frequent many sailing vessles of various sizes and they were all feminantly named except one, "Brutus". My understanding was that had something to do with the Twin V10's, but it sure did break down alot and at $1000/hr to operate (Twas a cigarette racing boat like the drug runners use), it was just rediculous. "Brutus" is a better name for a lawn tractor. I'm not sure what my bus deserves. It's clearly crippled or komotos half the time. The fact that i think it was running on 2.5 cylinders by the time it made it to the shop makes me wonder just what hell this bad boys been through in its past life, and now its like that dog with 3 legs and one ear that you look past it all and just really want to help. I'm throwing this dog a few bones. It has been refered to as "Engelburt" though. -Craig '85GL camperized Sunroof "Not Yet Dead" |
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