"Dear Headmistress. According to your instructions I put the thingamabob in the whatchamacallit, turned the doohickey and the whatever it is still doesn't work. Do you have any more ideas?"
--Peggie
--Peggie
Why I love newbe boat owners
- Thread starter Peggie Hall HeadMistress
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Clear as mud to me 
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.And I've a couple like that as well. Both electrical and mechanical
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I have also had a few work experience students like that. Though I believe it is considered rude to call them whatchamacallits.
I love it when i eat with the Real Estate ladies next to my office.
Lady 1: My whatchamacallit broke
Lady 2: Is the thingy broke?
Me: [nearly choking on my sandwich] Whose thingy?
Me: Oh you mean the thing amah jig.
Jim...
PS: I got punched in the shoulder by both of them.
Lady 1: My whatchamacallit broke
Lady 2: Is the thingy broke?
Me: [nearly choking on my sandwich] Whose thingy?
Me: Oh you mean the thing amah jig.
Jim...
PS: I got punched in the shoulder by both of them.
Try to explain what you want done in, to you, the. simplest nautical terminology while sailing with your significant other as crew immediately ! For example, ”Ease the jib sheet”, without having to define what it is, where it is, and finally, “what color is the rope?”
Fortunately, she really wants to learn and catches on quickly...
Fortunately, she really wants to learn and catches on quickly...
When I worked in a factory as a teen, nearly everything was called a chingadera!
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jssailem
SBO Weather and Forecasting Forum Jim & John
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I do... Pretty good long term memory... But.... What was I saying???? Never mind..
the learning curve is obviously challenging to newbie sailors and those redundant questions are...redundant...
some of those folks are best advised to get aboard their weekend-bowrider-stinkpotter, reading their state 2 page rec boater's guide, turning the ignition key, flooring the throttle and going back to work on Monday....jmho
some of those folks are best advised to get aboard their weekend-bowrider-stinkpotter, reading their state 2 page rec boater's guide, turning the ignition key, flooring the throttle and going back to work on Monday....jmho
I was taking a handling class on a trawler and the instructor told me to keep the channel marker to port, when I did so he said "Other side". "So keep it to starboard ?" I said, "stay to the left, you sailors always confuse me with that ancient jargon" he replied.
Sounds like they did everything right, maybe there's a factory defect in the user system?
-Will (Dragonfly)
I hope you know the Spanish translation of that.
I will NOT translate that or the SBO robot will come get me.
Jim...
PS: Close meaning ... a pesky little thing.
"In current usage, chingadera refers to anything for which the speaker has momentarily forgotten the word, especially things of little value or broken. Chingar may still refer poetically to splitting things lengthwise, though most Spanish speakers are now unaware of this archaic sense."
From Chingadera dictionary definition | chingadera defined
Not so offensive.
Of course, taking the first six letters only, that could be an issue.
-Will (Dragonfly)
From Chingadera dictionary definition | chingadera defined
Not so offensive.
Of course, taking the first six letters only, that could be an issue.
-Will (Dragonfly)
Remember this for the next time someone posts a "Got a free sailboat.... what should I name it.."I hope you know the Spanish translation of that.
La Chingadera
Put it mildly, for use in Mexico, it is considered vulgar. Same as per your linked definition.
Jim...
I said it was a factory job; up in Madera, CA. Vulgarity encountered there was only surpassed several years later spending a few nights aboard a working vessel manned by navy and ex-navy sailors. One adjective for everything there as well!
Vulgarity encountered there was only surpassed several years later spending a few nights aboard a working vessel manned by navy and ex-navy sailors. One adjective for everything there as well!
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When i started working as a Service Manager at an automotive shop, my vulgarity went up unfortunately.
I threatened the implementation of a "potty mouth jar" with a sliding scale of financial penalties. You would have thought i was William Bligh.
I threatened the implementation of a "potty mouth jar" with a sliding scale of financial penalties. You would have thought i was William Bligh.
Peggie your post appears to poke fun or even ridicule people new to boating and it's unique problems. When I first started boating in 1992 I didn't know a halyard from a Hal Holbrook but I still made an effort to learn the names and purposes of the various parts of my boat. Making repairs was also baffling because a mistake could be dangerous or even deadly. So I talked to more experienced friends in boating and, yes used terms that loosely described that which needed fixing. People were patient, informative and simply nice to me. I learned fast, got good at fixing things and I am often able to repair most things within my ability. To scoff at newbies who don't know the terms of boating repair seems inappropriate and mean spirited. Finally I work part time as a ski instructor if I were to use my newbie students as the butt of a joke I would soon run out of students and my boss would show me the door in short order.
One wonders why you felt the need to capitalize "service manager".
Delusions of grandeur?
@Mike4116 has a good point. Lets take a close look at some of the words we use...
What is Port? Is it a window? Is it a glass of wine? Is it the left side of your boat but only when facing forward?
What is cordage? Well it is either a piece of rope (if it is not being used -- wait!--- what?) or a line. But if it is a line.... we won't call it a line... we will call it something like halyard, main sheet or rode....
Then there are stays... which are only stays if they are fore or aft.... otherwise, they are shrouds. I mean... it would be crazy to call them side-stays (or would that be athwart stays)
What is Port? Is it a window? Is it a glass of wine? Is it the left side of your boat but only when facing forward?
What is cordage? Well it is either a piece of rope (if it is not being used -- wait!--- what?) or a line. But if it is a line.... we won't call it a line... we will call it something like halyard, main sheet or rode....
Then there are stays... which are only stays if they are fore or aft.... otherwise, they are shrouds. I mean... it would be crazy to call them side-stays (or would that be athwart stays)