The word of the day is "Futtock"

[Figment]

I thought some here might get a kick out of this.

A local radio station ran a bit on the morning schtick show about words that SOUND dirty but aren't. At the top of the list was "Futtock", defined as "the curved wood on the bottom of a ship"

:rolleyes: :D

[Thad Van Gilder]

You forgot about the futtuck shrouds below the tops and the crosstrees in the rigging and the frame halfs at the side of the boat!!!

-Thad

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Nah.

Shipbuilders are innocents.

Its riggers you want to worry about, what with the c*ntlines in three and four strand rope and the ar*e of a block! ;)

[Keith Wilson]

Words that sound dirty but aren't - there are always the famous bankers of the 1500s, the Fuggers.

Jakob Fugger, 1459-1525:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1e/Jakob_Fugger_by_Durer.jpg/180px-Jakob_Fugger_by_Durer.jpg

Doesn't he just look like a Fugger?

[ 02-10-2006, 11:03 AM: Message edited by: Keith Wilson ]

[Alan D. Hyde]

Or, how about the Fokkers???

http://www.spitcrazy.com/Fokker-DR-1.jpg

And here's the founding Fokker himself---

http://www.nostalgicaviation.com/New%20Photos/Anthony%20Fokker.jpg

Incidentally, he was known as "The Flying Dutchman," was a native of the Netherlands, and died in 1939 as an American citizen...

And, here he is with his mother (I'll forego the obvious comment :D )---

http://www.dutch-aviation.nl/pictures/Fokker/General/Fokker%20Anthony%20en%20zijn%20moeder.jpg

*.*.*

Almost anyone here would like his autobiography---
Anthony Fokker, The Flying Dutchman (1931)

*.*.*

Alan

[ 02-10-2006, 11:32 AM: Message edited by: Alan D. Hyde ]

[Keith Wilson]

Those Fokkers are still at it!

http://www.aircraft-charter-world.com/images/airliners/f70.jpg

[Karl A. Hilbert]

At school with the filter on so I can't get the Miller Lite (?) video.
Something like -

Dude with volpine pelt on head: When I told my friends I was going to Boatsylvania, they said, "Wear the fox hat."

[nedL]

No word of a lie, I once had a landlord named Roy Paine, short for Royal F. Paine. :D He was really a nice guy. (We found out his middle inital when we looked him up in the phone book).

[blacksmith]

In the days of Fighting Sail,the cannons had restraining ropes with c***t splices.Nasty, those bos'uns.

[Tristan]

Ya, the British shot down a lot of those Fokkers during WWII. Of course those Fokkers was all flying Messerschmits!

[Thorne]

There are always the rope whippings:

Common Whipping
Sailmaker's Whipping
Snaked Whipping
West Country Whipping

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[Wild Wassa]

Madame Lash ... stop it.

I once met a bummery who called one of the German tallships the 'Gosh-f**k'. Oh my gosh!

A bummery is middleman at the Billingsgate fish market.

Warren.

[ 02-10-2006, 06:31 PM: Message edited by: Wild Wassa ]

[Karl A. Hilbert]

Found it! Oldie but goodie.

Wear the fox hat. :D

Miller Lite Fox Hat Ad (http://www.graz-web.com/Graz/Junk/FoxHat.wmv)

[Wild Wassa]

:D

Was that a firkin ... or that guy has a firkin hat?

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[Meerkat]

A merkin doesn't sound all that naughty, but is rather! ;)

[Thorne]

Oo-er Missus, naughty ain't half of what a merkin is!

[Frank E. Price]

And Focke-Wulf is a roger, eh?

Frank

[Tristan]

Ah, but ye don't want to be Focking no Wolfs! Lest they bite into yr gronicles.

[Tristan]

Oh, by the way there's a well known bacteriologist, German I believe, whose last name is ****el or ****le (can't remember which). In bacteriological literature citations he is abbreviated, yes, you guessed it, Fu-k (without the dash).

[Jay Greer]

He those Germans are at it again! The name for the foresail is "die Fock". Haul in the fore sail- Wegziehen die Fock.
JG

[Victor]

Ever see the bumper sticker that was a takeoff on the Volkswagen ad? Fukkingruvin!

Your wife's a prosthetist and a thespian!