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06 May 2016, 5:06 pm

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The UK Government has ignored the public poll to name their new 200M£ Arctic research ship.


The name Boaty McBoatface is dead... with the public being unhappy.

The new name is Sir David Attenborough the famous UK environmentalist.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/05/ ... o-johnson/

Long Live Boaty McBoatface


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06 May 2016, 6:44 pm

Truly Sad, it shall always be Boaty McBoatface to me.



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06 May 2016, 6:46 pm

holdonyoungster wrote:
Truly Sad, it shall always be Boaty McBoatface to me.


At least they named it after a respectable person though.



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06 May 2016, 7:37 pm

andrethemoogle wrote:
holdonyoungster wrote:
Truly Sad, it shall always be Boaty McBoatface to me.


At least they named it after a respectable person though.


Absolutely, Attenborough's work is wonderful and I really enjoy his narrations of nature documentaries. I just found Boaty McBoatface to be hilarious.



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07 May 2016, 6:27 am

Too bad it isn't a yacht, because we could call it the Flying WASP.


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07 May 2016, 9:36 am

Tim_Tex wrote:
Too bad it isn't a yacht, because we could call it the Flying WASP.


You kinda lost me here.

WASP as in "White Anglo Saxon Protestant"?



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07 May 2016, 9:42 am

holdonyoungster wrote:
andrethemoogle wrote:
holdonyoungster wrote:
Truly Sad, it shall always be Boaty McBoatface to me.


At least they named it after a respectable person though.


Absolutely, Attenborough's work is wonderful and I really enjoy his narrations of nature documentaries. I just found Boaty McBoatface to be hilarious.


Also the populist name would set a bad precedent.

The next craft could be named something like "Let's All Get Shipfaced!".

Or (since a ship's propeller is called a "screw") you might end up with " Let's Get Shipfaced, and Screw"