At 07:45 PM 11/20/2009, VW Vanagon wrote:
>When I first got it, there was a black cover on the front.
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>And "Ann Bonney" was already taken - and is a girl's name.  :)

That black cover is called a bra.*  Perhaps Mary 
Read is still available?  Or Ching Shih?

;-)
d
*From French brassiere, a child's jacket with 
sleeves; <-- Fr. bras, arm, <-- L. bracchium <-- 
Gr. brakhion, upper arm + iere, associated with.

Original root mregh-u-. Important derivatives 
are: brief, abbreviate, abridge, merry, mirth, 
brace, brassiere, pretzel, embrace.
mregh-u-. Short. I. Suffixed form *mregh-w-i-. 
BRIEF, BRUMAL; ABBREVIATE, (ABRIDGE), from Latin 
brevis, short. II. Zero-grade form *m�ghu-. 1.a. 
MERRY, from Old English myrge, mirige, pleasant; 
b. MIRTH, from Old English myrgth, pleasure, joy, 
from Germanic *murgith�, pleasantness. Both a and 
b from Germanic *murgja-, short, also pleasant, 
joyful. 2. BRACHY-; AMPHIBRACH, TRIBRACH, from 
Greek brakhus, short. 3. BRACE, BRACERO, 
BRACHIUM, BRASSARD, BRASSIERE, PRETZEL; 
(EMBRACE), from Greek comparative brakhi�n, 
shorter, hence also �upper arm� (as opposed to 
the longer forearm). [Pokorny mreghu- 750.]