# Blackwater Changes its Name **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 14, 2009, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackwater-changes-its-name/485763 "2009-02-14T00:02:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackwater-changes-its-name/485763/41 "2009-02-14T16:26:19Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > I assume he refers to the sewage of a ship, called blackwater. Thanks. I did not know that. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackwater-changes-its-name/485763/42 "2009-02-14T18:38:48Z")
I’m guessing whoever picks their names is a [Grimm Shado](http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/1/19/) fan. ---
**Author:** ![AllWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@AllWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllWalker)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackwater-changes-its-name/485763/43 "2009-02-15T03:21:48Z")
Considering how many decades members of the Jesus Kittens where screaming OMG!! DEMOCRATS = LIBERAL = SOCIALISM = COMMUNISM!!! I don’t think they have any right to complain. If your label sucks, try to make it not suck. Trying to change it just makes us laugh at you. > [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > _Cough_SamepointImadeinpost#13_Cough_ 😉 Crap! I even read that post, just somehow missed the first line… I stand by my misplaced outrage, though. _nods triumphantly before sneaking off again_ ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackwater-changes-its-name/485763/44 "2009-02-15T04:03:58Z")
And of course [www.xe.com](http://www.xe.com), the well-known currency-conversion site, must be absolutely _thrilled_ at this news. It’s a typical move of too many people: when one’s image tarnishes because of one’s activities, change the image, not the activities. Stupid. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackwater-changes-its-name/485763/45 "2009-02-15T04:26:46Z")
In Hell tonight, they are changing the signs that read “Reserved for Blackwater”. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackwater-changes-its-name/485763/46 "2009-02-15T04:29:30Z")
would a pile of shit smell any less rancid by any other name? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackwater-changes-its-name/485763/47 "2009-02-15T04:34:54Z")
Interesting notion, Mr. Shakespeare, but the wording is, well, rather brusque. Perhaps a re-write, a bit more, oh, …_flowery_? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackwater-changes-its-name/485763/48 "2009-02-15T04:37:47Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Interesting notion, Mr. Shakespeare, but the wording is, well, rather brusque. Perhaps a re-write, a bit more, oh, …_flowery_? I think even Bill Shakespeare would agree Blackwater is no rose. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackwater-changes-its-name/485763/49 "2009-02-15T05:28:56Z")
How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackwater-changes-its-name/485763/50 "2009-02-15T05:41:55Z")
One, like the event-horizon of a black hole of loathing, two, more than licorice, three… ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackwater-changes-its-name/485763/51 "2009-02-15T08:52:24Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > One, like the event-horizon of a black hole of loathing, two, more than licorice, three… Oh, ok, now I have to think about it, because I really, really, REALLY _ **HATE** _ licorice. Nasty, stinking, disgusting stuff. I suppose that given a choice, Blackwater existing, or licorice existing, I guess I’d choose licorice. At least licorice never hurt anybody. Making me want to barf just smelling it doesn’t count. Got that settled. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Claptree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Claptree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claptree)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackwater-changes-its-name/485763/52 "2009-02-15T13:57:10Z")
I get the feeling Blackwater believe everyone reads Brian Wood’s DMZ. The evil mercs, making profit by interrupting elections and killing people are called Trustwell, and the protagonist’s unselfish nurse girlfriend is called Zee. Coinkidink? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackwater-changes-its-name/485763/53 "2009-02-15T15:06:07Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Prince, Nike, now Backwater. Except for the bare fact of having changed their names at one point, what is the significance of this list? They all did it for different reasons. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackwater-changes-its-name/485763.md?page=2)