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[Closed] New name sought for Polar Research ship

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Come on STW, I'm sure our combined intellect can come up with a winner
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35825264 ]I name this ship[/url]
How about RRS Global Warming?


 
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Fox, after the mints....
How about titanic?


 
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The Pride of [url= https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%27lyeh ]R' lyeh[/url]


 
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Cum Sea, Cum Ca'


 
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any bets it's going to end up with a right-on, wimminz scientist/explorer name to balance out the Ross and Shackleton?

How about "Immobulus", the freezing charm from Potter?


 
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RRS Polar Dancer

RRS Brass Monkey

RRS Let it Go


 
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Edna


 
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The good ship Venus


 
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After the tube thread...
Queen Elizabeth III


 
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RRS Farage - It'll keep a close eye on the Poles.


 
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Titan Nick


 
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Binky


 
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Brian.


 
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RRS Ranulph Fiennes


 
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RRS Economic Policy

Entirely focussed on the south

EDIT: [i]Polar[/i] apart from when isn't : PAH. Like the farridge one BTW.

RRS Kevin McCleod?

Permanantly surrounded by a featureless white environment


 
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RRS Piccolax

Probing the detritus of human activity


 
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Dave.


 
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RRS Penguin


 
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Henry Worsley

In the spirit of heroic failure we do better than anyone.


 
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RRS Van Winkle.
RM.


 
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RRS Ron Pickering


 
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RRS Biscuits


 
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"I Thought He Was With You?"

"All Through With This Niceness And Negotiation Stuff"

"Lacking That Small Match Temperament"

And my absolute favourite:

"Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall"


 
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RSS Arse


 
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R-R-S-Putin.

or

Daddy Cool.


 
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"I Thought He Was With You?"

"All Through With This Niceness And Negotiation Stuff"

"Lacking That Small Match Temperament"

And my absolute favourite:

"Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall"

I was always fond of [i]Anticipation of a New Lover's Arrival (The), Ethics Gradient[/i], and, probably most appropriate in this instance, [i]Pure Big Mad Boat Man[/i].


 
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The Captain Oates
Mashup with the red dwarf thread


Kryten: I beg you to reconsider, Sir. Human history is resplendent with examples of such sacrifice. Remember Captain Oates: "I'm going out for a walk. I may be some time."

Rimmer: Yes, but the thing is, about Captain Oates; the thing you have to remember about Captain Oates; Captain Oates... Captain Oates was a prat. If that'd been me, I'd've stayed in the tent, whacked Scott over the head with a frozen husky, and then eaten him.

Lister: You would too, wouldn't you?

Rimmer: History, Lister, is written by the winners. How do we know that Oates went out for this legendary walk? From the only surviving document: Scott's diary. And he's hardly likely to have written down, "February the First, bludgeoned Oates to death while he slept, then scoffed him along with the last packet of instant mash." How's that going to look when he gets rescued, eh? No, much better to say, "Oates made the supreme sacrifice," while you're dabbing up his gravy with the last piece of crusty bread.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0684187/quotes?item=qt0314252m


 
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R-R-S-Putin.

Well played 😀


 
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Quite like RRS Arse and RRS Biscuits and leads me to think it should commemorate a late, great hero:

RRS **** Girls.


 
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Can you believe **** comes out as ****? Anyway, you know what I mean.


 
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RRS Farage - It'll keep a close eye on the Poles.

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RRS Titan

i.e. The moon of Jupiter - composed almost entirely of water and ice.


 
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RRS Henry Worsley


 
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RRS Dr Evil " its long hard and full of seamen"


 
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I like the idea of naming these things completely innocuous, some may say boring names. So my suggestions would be:

RRS Dave
RRS Kev
RRS Sharon
RRS Doris


 
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Can't believe nobody's suggested 'RRS Bandit' yet


 
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Apparently I win. I get coke, hookers and a free trip to santaland.

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RRS Boaty McBoatface is currently leading...

[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35864702 ]Sauce.[/url]


 
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RRS Boaty McBoatface is currently leading...

I heard that on the new yesterday morning and have been chuckling to myself ever since.


 
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Ah the great British public, give them a consequence-free say in anything and they will immediately try and furiously sabotage it.


 
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RRS Burner


 
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RRS Turbo RS


 
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RRS Essess


 
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As on the other thread - this is why we're not allowed nice things anymore!

for what its worth, I've suggested [url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perce_Blackborow ]RRS Perce Blackborow[/url]


 
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RRS Ronnie Pickering


 
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RRS Licker


 
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