Lol. I once told a girl that I was trying to ask out, a long and rambling story about how the root word "manship" (as in penmanship and craftsmanship) came from an ancient Phoenician custom . The Phoenicians, being a seafaring culture, had a particular rite of passage, where a young boy had to construct his own boat, by hand, in order to be considered a man by society. This vessel was literally his "man-ship" and as time went on, the term came to represent a particular skill that a person possessed, so if someone was good with horses he would have been said to have "constructed his horse man-ship" or if he was adept with a blade, he would have "built his swords man-ship". And over the centuries it came to be used the way we know it today.
When I broke the news that it was all a joke, I got a polite nod, and a well deserved trip to the friend zone.