{"id":688,"date":"2007-10-17T19:05:34","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T03:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=688"},"modified":"2008-02-21T01:53:17","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T09:53:17","slug":"get-off-your-duffy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"Get Off Your Duffy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I try to hit my post office box once a week, and when it’s just me, I usually take the 405 freeway. When I have H.E. with me, however, like today, we take a more scenic route along the Pacific Coast Highway and see all the boat shops along Newport Beach.<\/p>\n

Every time we pass the Duffy boats, I think back to the time I rode one<\/a> and saw all those cool names on all the other boats like it in the harbor, and then I start racking my brains for new names.<\/p>\n

See, Duffy boats are electric, and they typically have names<\/a> that make a play on the words energy, electric, current, voltage, charge, amp, ohm, and watt. So you see names like Watts Up, Doc?<\/em> or Ohm Sweet Ohm<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It’s hard to come up with new ones, though. Most of the good ones have already been discovered and taken; I’ve seen a good many of them and forget more existing ones than I can brainstorm new ones. According to the sign where the Duffy boats were, this week’s top name was Watts Ampening?<\/em> Last week, it was Ample Energy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I came up with Under Watt Or Charge<\/em>, but H.E. advised me that anything “underwater” is NOT a good name for a boat. He liked Ohm, My God!<\/em>, though, which was the first name I blurted. The best one I’ve come up with so far uses two of the words and hints at what I’ve been reading lately: Ohms and Watts On<\/em>. H.E. came up with an even better one: Watts Up, Ohms?<\/em><\/p>\n

Others off the top of my head?<\/p>\n

Watt Or Work
\nOhm Eye!
\nOhm Watt A Night<\/p>\n

I wish I could come up with more, though; I have a hard time coming up with anything that doesn’t already exist. Anyone else have some ideas?<\/p>\nShare this post:

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I try to hit my post office box once a week, and when it’s just me, I usually take the 405 freeway. When I have H.E. with me, however, like today, we take a more scenic route along the Pacific Coast Highway and see all the boat shops along Newport Beach. Every time we pass the Duffy boats, I think back to the time I rode one and saw all those cool names on all the other boats like it…<\/p>\n

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