“What’s in a name?” asked Juliet in Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet. “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” The following synonyms for some maritime names and phrases may not smell sweet to the parties referred to. I hope, however, that readers of Marine Café Blog will find them funny, yet not detached from reality.
1 International Maritime Organization: IMOney
2 Maritime slogan: maritime food for mynahs
3 Maritime press: maritime cut-and-paste factory
4 Maritime PR agency: maritime spammers
5 Nautical school: fastfood diploma chain
6 Seafarers’ charity: maritime donation drop box
7 Seafarers’ union: maritime brokerage house
8 Manning agent: money changer, ship screwing agent
9 Seafarers: martyrs of global trade
10 Ship captain: shipboard despot
11 Chief mate: assistant shipboard despot
12 Maritime award: corporate ego-booster
13 Maritime conference: talkathon-cum-coffee
14 Classification society: pre-accident surveyors
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