On Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me this weekend, they identified this story about a proposed $287 million polar research ship and which the British Government decided unwisely, to let the internet choose the name for this new research ship. Currently, R.R.S. Boaty McBoatFace is leading the pack.
Winston Churchill once said:
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Once again, the Internet Trolls ruin things. It makes me wonder about the wisdom of adding Internet Voting to our Voting options. And that’s all I have to say about that, to mix the metaphor even more.
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I think it’s a great name.
Further, governments themselves have a long history of undignified nicknames for things. Fat man and little boy, for example, not to mention the menu bombings.
People want a goofy name for a ship? Vox populi omnes salutant.
What I really want to know is how jconway managed to recommend this diary three times. I’ll take whatever kind of subscription he has. 🙂
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…the original BMG superdelegate.
…even superdelegates only get one vote.
or would that be more of a RedMassGroup approach to things.
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Vote for the Boat. The names come up randomly, but near the top, there is a sort by the most popular option, and Boaty McBoatFace is at the top.
For a British polar research ship, my vote went for RRS Ralph Vaughan Williams, whose score for “Scott of the Antarctic” was incorporated into his 7th Symphony. I don’t think it will win though …
Which is a great Monty Python bit with Terry Jones fighting a gigantic robotic penguin, by removing all his clothes and using his underwear as a slingshot. It also includes Carol Cleveland as the love interest, acting all of her scenes in a trench, because she is taller than Terry Jones, then when the trench is too deep, she ends up acting on top of wooden boxes. One of the over the top gags is they film near the White Cliffs of Dover, so they need to paint all the sand white to make it look like snow.
Trumpface.
That is all I know or need to know, thankyouverymuch.