Following Alex's instructions to "forward paddle", "back paddle", and "stop", we negotiated rapids with such safe, cosy names as the Wall, the Washing Machine and the Storm.
A Coronet System Review of the Incidence of Cosy Otter Names at the Monterey's Coast Aquarium.
Cigarette brands were still cosy household names, sponsoring such beloved figures as radio's Jack Benny; Coca-Cola was still a synonym for wholesomeness, with white-gloved maidens sipping it from their pure lips.
And whereas the police force Sam leaves is a cosy first-name, multi-racial, by-the-book 21st-century force (so very realistic then), the one he finds himself in is staffed by bullies and sexist pigs, who spend most of their time thumping people in the solar plexus and whistling at "skirts".
They call it "hutching up", but the trend is nowhere near as cosy as the name makes it sound.
Psmith, in Psmith Journalist, takes over a small magazine of domesticity in New York, named Cosy Moments, and transforms it briefly into a campaigning, reforming and crime-fighting organ.
The six cosy encampments are named after the wives of Henry VIII who may (or may not) have visited the tower, and each comes with a wood-heated hot tub, an outdoor stoves and a firepit for toasting marshmallows.
Cristiano Ronaldo, the best footballer ever, surrounded by fleece likenesses of himself, hammered from all sides by cosy proclamations of his name.
Despite its dancefloor being a claustrophobic underground cavern, Cosies is true to its name.
