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What is/was your favourite VIII

Everyone has a favourite boat, past or present.

BP1		26%

Denys Lawrence		12%

BP2		21%

Margot		3%

BP3 [Karlische]		18%

BP4 [Aylings]		0%

BP5 [the wooden thing]		6%

Peter Brandt		9%

Titan		0%

Conqueror		3%

Fair Maid of Kent		0%

Henry		3%

Total: 34 members' votes

by Setting someone up for a punchline... - Sun 16th Oct 2005, 5:12pm

Where's Magpie and Stump?

by Eton Boy - Sun 16th Oct 2005, 5:48pm

What about Chiswick? (I fear Queen's would be a little too obscure...)

by sat - Sun 16th Oct 2005, 7:17pm

Where is Mary Tudor?

by Tom C - Sun 16th Oct 2005, 11:13pm

sat said: Where is Mary Tudor?

in your ass

by jmg - Mon 17th Oct 2005, 9:04am

Eton Boy said: What about Chiswick?

Ravens?

by jpd - Mon 17th Oct 2005, 9:15am

Scylla & Charybdis?

by Turning into a nautical version of Mornington Crescent - Mon 17th Oct 2005, 9:27am

jmg said: Ravens?

Trowlock Island

by jpd - Mon 17th Oct 2005, 9:31am

Lagoon Nebula?

by Simon - Mon 17th Oct 2005, 9:47am

Richmond draw-off?

by Ingers - Mon 17th Oct 2005, 8:32pm

jmg said: Ravens?

But that's not an Ait, it's an "Ayitie".

by jpd - Tue 18th Oct 2005, 8:29am

Ingers said: But that's not an Ait, it's an "Ayitie".

I think you're mistaken (unless there's a joke there that I missed).

by mjb - Tue 18th Oct 2005, 8:56am

jpd said: (unless there's a joke there that I missed).

I was under the impression that although it was spelled "ait", it was pronounced "Ay-Eye-Tee"

by Simon - Tue 18th Oct 2005, 5:05pm

jpd said: (unless there's a joke there that I missed).

I think, like Eyot, Buoy, Chiswick, Grosvenor and Loughborough, it's a word which non-natives struggle to pronounce.

by sat - Tue 18th Oct 2005, 6:31pm

Simon said: I think, like Eyot, Buoy, Chiswick, Grosvenor and Loughborough, it's a word which non-natives struggle to pronounce.

And not forgetting Hartlepool.

by gf - Tue 18th Oct 2005, 6:38pm

Simon said: I think, like Eyot, Buoy, Chiswick, Grosvenor and Loughborough, it's a word which non-natives struggle to pronounce.

Indeed, but the original inversion (as per Matt's comment above) was made by a native in trying to explain the word.

by jmg - Tue 18th Oct 2005, 7:45pm

gf said: Indeed, but the original inversion was made by a native in trying to explain the word.

guilty. I was young...

by provocateur - Thu 20th Oct 2005, 5:30pm

Simon said: Buoy

Everybody on this island struggles to pronounce this word.

by jpd - Thu 20th Oct 2005, 5:55pm

provocateur said: Everybody on this island struggles to pronounce this word.

Using your own argument from previous language debates - common usage dictates that the word is pronounced "boi" in this country; since everybody here understands that it's part of our language (which is called English).

Anyway, the word has origins in the Old French word "boue" (not mud - it's "bouée" in modern French) - I'm quite happy to distance myself from that by altering its pronounciation.

by Dubya - Thu 20th Oct 2005, 8:13pm

jpd said: Using your own argument from previous language debates - common usage dictates that the word is pronounced "boi" in this country; since everybody here understands that it's part of our language (which is called English).

I don't think the English should have control of the English language any more. Clearly a UN agency should take over. Kofi could employ more of his family!

by Wood is good - Thu 20th Oct 2005, 10:50pm

BP3 [Karlische]: 18%

Clearly 82% of you never had the privilege of rowing in her before she was allowed to fall into her current state of disrepair.

by James - Fri 21st Oct 2005, 12:29am

Wood is good said: Clearly 82% of you never had the privilege of rowing in her before she was allowed to fall into her current state of disrepair.

This member of the 82% got to row in her for all of four strokes before she crashed into a houseboat... so if by disrepair you mean "state of totally crapitude due to bow's nonexistence" then perhaps you are correct.

by Simon - Mon 24th Oct 2005, 11:23pm

James said: "due to bow's nonexistence"

Ah, but you only knocked off an earlier repair. Apparently the boat's never been the same since, although I struggle to believe that it's entirely due to the repairs to a part of the boat which is not normally in the water.

by Richard - Tue 25th Oct 2005, 12:11am

Simon, do you mean repairs due to this incident?