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Boaty McBoatface is the New John Scott
Oh the rascals of the interwebz, they've done it again. It's looking like those in charge won't accept the winning Boaty McBoatface for the newest British icebreaker/research vessel.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/18/world/...ace-wins-vote/
Some of the follow-on stuff in the article is frigging hilarious: Trainy McTrainface, Cheesy McCheeseface, Horsey McHorseface, not Penguin McPenguinface (thought of Pengwin7 McPenguin7face).
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That raises the question: How did we had fun before the Internet?
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Beer league pond hockey, and putting tape on the bottom of our friends skate blades.Originally Posted by BillyD.
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hahaha. Can't believe I forgot the old tape joke! Thanks!
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I love this story... heard inklings of it a few weeks ago.
IMO, they can't be complete douchebags about this.
I'd say they honour it with a bit of a joke.
Give the boat some regal-proper name.
That name goes on the side of the boat in the standard BIG ASS font.
But in fairly small print, (I'm talking really small) under the proper name, they need to put...
aka Boaty McBoatface
Win/win.
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Bit of a cop out, and really that probably ends up being lose-lose. The internet gets mad that they didn't get to name the boat as they thought they were, and the scientists/boating officials get mad because the name Boaty McBoatface is stuck on the side of their research boat and will not be taken seriously.
I mean any research papers published as a result of any expedition that boat undertakes, comes with the asterisk of the joke name.
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Let's just be glad that we live in an open society.
There are some societies that would take the Internet out into the courtyard and give it a blindfold and a last cigarette...
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Quick question:
Has the whole 'let the people on the internet vote on this' plan EVER worked out as intended?
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More to the point, has that plan ever been suggested by someone who wasn't a lazy airhead?
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Generally it's just always a bad idea:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/52524...acked-internet
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There was also the one with Stephen Colbert when he won an online vote to name a room on a space station after him. But my favourite all-time was the one on This Hour Has 22 Minutes about Stockwell Day changing his name to Doris Day.
From CBC:
The CBC television show, "This Hour has 22 Minutes" now has more than enough signatures for its petition campaign to have Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day change his name to Doris Day.
The show is using the Alliance referendum formula, that would allow a national vote on any issue, if three per cent of the electorate, or about 350,000 people, signed a petition.
So far, more than 370,000 people have signed the petition to have Day change his name.
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