Ship Class Nomenclature

I'll drink to that!

> On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 16:58:50 -0600 "B Lin" <lin@rxkinetix.com> writes:

Reading Schott's Original Miscellany, I came across Wine Bottle Sizes, and
thought that they would make a good series for naming classes, they are from
smallest to largest:

Picolo Chopine Filette or Demi Magnum Marie Jeanne Double Magnum Jeroboam
Rehoboam Imperial Methuselah Salmanazar Balthazar Nebuchadnezzar Melchior

Series would be named after types of wines - for instance the first
series of a line would be the "Burgundy Picolo Escort Class" the second series
would be "Cabernet Picolo Escort Class" while individual ships would be named
after specific vineyards or brands of wine, matching the series name.
Distinctive ships would earn a "year" to the name for distinguished action:
"Dom Perignon '69 of the Champagne Series Magnum Cruiser Class" or Melcior
class "Moet '85" Champagne Series.

--Binhan

> At 4:58 PM -0600 8/4/03, B Lin wrote:

I take it these crews would spend most of their time in port (harhar) either
squishing grapes or standing around in snooty bars eating cheese?

Perhaps not. There really should be a "Box" class freighter for the cheaper
wares. "Port" might be nomenclature reserved for "heavy or fortified" versions
of classes. "Cognac" might be used for "distilled" classes that pack more
"punch" than their size would normally indicate.

Also just think of the jibes if you lose to such a fleet: "You were thrashed
by a Dom Perignon '69 and a Magnum of Cabernet"

It also leads to a new type of game with higher stakes - instead of
ships, you play with actual (full)wine bottles - kills are claimed as
victory spoils.

--Binhan

> -----Original Message-----

Yes, but what would you smash against the prow of such ships to christen them?
A bottle of the wine after which they're named? That seems either very
appropriate or darkly prophetic....

> --- B Lin <lin@rxkinetix.com> wrote:
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> Reading Schott's Original Miscellany, I came across Wine Bottle

Or gun sizes for early cannons -- depending on your source, something
like: Robinet Falconet Falcon Minion Saker Drake
Demi-Culverin
Culverin
Demi-Cannon
Cannon Cannon Royal

> On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:37:55PM -0700, Brian B wrote:

A miniature starship?

R

> On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:37:21PM -0400, Laserlight wrote:

Brewer's Phrase and Fable is a great source for lists of this type. Famous
swords, parts of the hawk, the Cato Street conspirators...

...but nothing beats the battleship named _Sredni Vashtar_. :-)

R

> On Monday, July 5, 1999, at 03:23 pm, <warbeads@juno.com> wrote:
No drinking allowed until you get the clock on your computer sorted out:)

                                TTFN
                                        Jon

Weirdly, I thought, occasionally incorrectly, these were used before...

> Picolo

Early SPI Universe ship game (Three Dee?), though they were instrument names.

> Chopine

We'll pass on the Tom Selleck comments...

> Marie Jeanne

Dopey moi, I said AHA! B5... Sorry, that was Marie Celeste...

> Double Magnum

This turned out to be me remembering Nick Danger, Third Eye. Again, no ship.

> Rehoboam

Matrix hovership.

> Melchior

I know I've seen more, but having trouble pinning them down.

> No drinking allowed until you get the clock on your computer

Let's do the time warp again!

The_Beast

I do. Every day. (grin) The computer was built "Thank You" from two
friends very hardware oriented for things I had said/done.  But the
power source (? Battery?) must be going. As soon as the hardware geek gets
back this software geek will find out where to get a replacement and how
to install it.  This is the year I went from a 486/66 to a Pentium (one
of the original Pentium processors IIRC.)

Until then it will occasionally be 1999 (or 1995 which is another of the
computer's fave years.) Usually when I boot up I get a message telling me that
the clock needs to be confirmed because Juno has reset the clock for Daylight
Savings... but not today.

Given that I live in Hell House redux (it was built from a single story
into a story-and-a-half by a person who has less construction knowledge
that I do! And I recognize a ball peen hammer 2 times out of 3... After the
sale information, sigh.

Glenn says: "6 mm figures are my main interest. I play them in Historical,
Fantasy and Science Fiction. But if you have the figures (5 mm through 54 mm,)
the terrain and the rules... Fight's on!" Gracias,
Glenn  - last man in the world without a web site?

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 14:43:46 +0100 Jonathan White <Jonw@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
writes:
> On Monday, July 5, 1999, at 03:23 pm, <warbeads@juno.com> wrote:

Well if I drank it facing backwards....

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 14:43:46 +0100 Jonathan White <Jonw@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
writes:
> On Monday, July 5, 1999, at 03:23 pm, <warbeads@juno.com> wrote:

I thought of that....

> --- Roger Burton West <roger@firedrake.org> wrote:

Heretic!  Sacrilege!  Yada-yada-yada.
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 08:00:58 -0700 (PDT) Brian B
> <greywanderer987@yahoo.com> writes: