Haha, your a expat Brit living in the states who had (has? Sorry, don't want to assume anything) a Canuck wife? That's freaking awesome. Also, Gan is gorgeous. We live literally 19 minutes from Gananoque on Hwy 2.
Well my ex-wife is from Gan it's a beautiful town , I loved all my times there (in both summer and winter), Kingston was also a lot of fun too. She definitely taught me a lot of the ol' Canadian lingo, like two fours etc. Now I'm missing my Canadian trips, I'm going to have to head up there again sometime!
Ah, in that case the ship may be better off being names after a real life person:
Still my favourite Monty Python movie.
I had to stop choking after I read this. Here in North America, it was common until the mid 20th century for the older fishing villages settled by the English to follow older traditions. This was mostly because of their isolation until the technology was available to re-connect. One of the traditions they have is to call people by their formal name, so someone called say, "Michael Hunt", would never know the short form of his given name was "Mike" until they move. And as it happens, I knew a guy named Michael Hunt, who moved to a very large city where they shortened his name in about 38.2 seconds. He had his name changed in the next 30 seconds - and even a Wikipedia article that mentions his family doesn't tell this story.
When I was in the military everybody with the last name Hunt would typically be called 'Mike' regardless of their real first name.
