Asking the British public to name anything in the name of ‘engagement’ is a recipe for mockery,as the NERC has just discoveredWhen looking for a possible baby name, my mother opened a book of flowers at random. The page on which she landed? Giant stinking hogweed. So, and it is with a certain sense of sisterly affection that I hear the Natural Environment Research Council’s current £200m boat is to be called Boaty McBoatface. Nell “Stinking Hogweed” Frizzell and Boaty McBoatface – we’d occupy got on just fine.
Except it probably won’t actually get called Boaty McBoatface. Nor will the other imaginative suggestions such as Big Shipinnit or Big Metal Floaty Thingy-Thing likely accomplish the final slit. But,just days after the NERC launched a poll, encouraging the public to propose a suitable moniker, or the Great British public did what it does best – and has been doing for centuries. We took the piss.
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Source: theguardian.com