Introducing Boaty McBoatface, Polar Explorer

monster · 03-21-2016, 07:30 PM

Experts could overrule 'Boaty McBoatface' name choice for polar ship

The Experts need to suck it up and go with the popular choice. It's fabulous.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-21-2016, 07:38 PM

It would have to be Shippy Mc Shipface.

monster · 03-21-2016, 07:56 PM

That could be its registered name, in case it's entered in ship/boat shows, but it'll be Boaty McBoatface at home

monster · 03-21-2016, 07:59 PM

I want the queen to launch it, using a bottle of Matey instead of champagne.

lumberjim · 03-21-2016, 08:42 PM

We could do better. Why weren't we consulted?

lumberjim · 03-21-2016, 08:43 PM

' I just shipped my pants '

monster · 03-21-2016, 09:23 PM

Look At My Pole

monster · 03-21-2016, 09:45 PM

On Frozen Pond

Sundae · 03-22-2016, 06:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster

Look At My Pole

You know when you are in a public library and you make a really noisy snorting laugh and people look at you, concerned you've just swallowed your tongue?
Maybe it's just me then.

But I did, and this was the reason.

DanaC · 03-22-2016, 06:20 AM

From the article:

Quote:

The names Pingu, Usain Boat and It's Bloody Cold Here have also been put forward.

Usain Boat made me chuckle.

Sundae · 03-22-2016, 06:29 AM

They should give ships better names, definitely.

They should be like the ships in Iain M Banks books, which the Minds which powered them were allowed to name themselves. I had a great fondness for Very Little Gravitas Indeed.

Wouldn't work for this one of course.

monster · 03-23-2016, 03:55 PM

Excellent....

DanaC · 04-22-2016, 05:10 PM

It sounds like they're going to choose a different name. Which is a shame. Though I can see the arguments for both sides of the debate. Overall, I think they should have gone with it.

Anyway - here's the Last Leg's take on it:

monster · 05-07-2016, 12:08 PM

Bunch o wusses called it the Sir David Attenborough which is what they were going to call it all along

Griff · 05-07-2016, 12:22 PM

I guess the Good Ship Nancy Boy was taken?

03-21-2016, 07:30 PM	#1
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Introducing Boaty McBoatface, Polar Explorer Experts could overrule 'Boaty McBoatface' name choice for polar ship The Experts need to suck it up and go with the popular choice. It's fabulous. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

03-21-2016, 07:38 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	It would have to be Shippy Mc Shipface. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-21-2016, 07:56 PM	#3
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	That could be its registered name, in case it's entered in ship/boat shows, but it'll be Boaty McBoatface at home __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

03-21-2016, 07:59 PM	#4
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	I want the queen to launch it, using a bottle of Matey instead of champagne. Attached Images __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

03-21-2016, 08:42 PM	#5
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	We could do better. Why weren't we consulted? __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

03-21-2016, 08:43 PM	#6
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	' I just shipped my pants ' __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

03-21-2016, 09:23 PM	#7
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Look At My Pole __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

03-21-2016, 09:45 PM	#8
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	On Frozen Pond __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

03-22-2016, 06:29 AM	#11
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	They should give ships better names, definitely. They should be like the ships in Iain M Banks books, which the Minds which powered them were allowed to name themselves. I had a great fondness for Very Little Gravitas Indeed. Wouldn't work for this one of course. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

03-23-2016, 03:55 PM	#12
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Excellent.... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

05-07-2016, 12:08 PM	#14
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Bunch o wusses called it the Sir David Attenborough which is what they were going to call it all along __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

05-07-2016, 12:22 PM	#15
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	I guess the Good Ship Nancy Boy was taken? __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

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