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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.

It would have to be Shippy Mc Shipface.

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

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

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

' I just shipped my pants '

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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.

From the article:

Usain Boat made me chuckle.

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.

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:

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

I guess the Good Ship Nancy Boy was taken?