# Britain lets public name a new Polar Research Vessel **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 19, 2016, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britain-lets-public-name-a-new-polar-research-vessel/749577 "2016-03-19T21:31:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britain-lets-public-name-a-new-polar-research-vessel/749577/61 "2016-05-06T14:37:22Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I can’t tell whether you’re joking here. This is the world we live in now. As you may have heard, Doctor John Parker Hammond was the CEO and creator of Jurassic Park. He founded the company InGen and the Hammond Foundation. \*John Parker Hammond is a flamboyant venture capitalist from Scotland, building his fortune in Petticoat Lane, England. He also held parks in Kenya, Costa Rica, and other tropical locations. …Hammond is affable and kind and is genuinely concerned about the well-being of his grandchildren and the other visitors and workers at the park. He also cares about his dinosaurs…\* > **[John Hammond](https://jurassicpark.fandom.com/wiki/John_Hammond)** > > Dr.\[4\] John Alfred\[5\] Hammond was the CEO of InGen and creator of Jurassic Park. He founded the company InGen and the Hammond Foundation. He had at least one daughter, two grandchildren (Tim and Lex Murphy), a sister (as Hammond's nephew has the... While some people believe that the movie Jurassic Park was simply fictional entertainment, I like to think of it as documentary that somehow managed to escape notice by the New World Order censorship of the UN and scrutiny of the 501st Legion (aka Vader’s Fist). Sir Richard Attenborough portrayal of John Hammond is every bit as serious as Boaty McBoatface and certainly deserves the same recognition. A little dingy, perhaps? Or a sonar buoy. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britain-lets-public-name-a-new-polar-research-vessel/749577/62 "2016-05-06T19:35:27Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > The trend is catching on. I heard an item on NPR this morning about a racehorse named Horsey McHorseface. Cite: [Racehorse named Horsey McHorseFace because ‘hey, why not?’](http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/15/sport/horsey-mchorseface/) – CNN, April 15. > [@CNN](#): > > Hoof Hearted, Shakalakaboomboom and Whykickamoocow are just three of the dozens of strange and wonderful racehorse names that have tickled punters and twisted the tongues of long-suffering race track commentators. > > Now a new steed has joined their ranks – a two-year-old gelding named Horsey McHorseface. Yes, they’ll name their remotely-controlled submarine Boaty McBoatface. As pointed out on CNN [here](http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/06/sport/boaty-mcboatface-name-david-attenborough/), people are immediately asking: Shouldn’t that be Subby McSubface??? This reminds me extremely very much of the naming of the new ISS dormitory module a few years ago, which Stephen Colbert lobbied his viewers to vote to name after him, and which got the majority vote. NASA scrubbed that, but instead named their new high-tech zero-G space exercise treadmill the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill ([photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frank_De_Winne_on_treadmill_cropped.jpg)), or [C.O.L.B.E.R.T](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:COLBERT_patch.jpg) ([Wiki page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treadmill_with_Vibration_Isolation_Stabilization)). In other news, [here we have Trainy McTrainface.](https://twitter.com/funfield5/status/712195930041282560/photo/1) Note the comments: News reporters from all over are asking him for permission to run this pic. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britain-lets-public-name-a-new-polar-research-vessel/749577/63 "2016-05-06T21:15:56Z")
It’s kind of weird naming something after a living person. David Attenborough deserves the honour, but it’s still weird. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britain-lets-public-name-a-new-polar-research-vessel/749577/64 "2016-05-06T21:43:26Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > It’s kind of weird naming something after a living person. David Attenborough deserves the honour, but it’s still weird. It’s a 90th birthday present I guess. I think if an individual is sufficiently aged and venerated then it’s OK, and after all the ship’s naming ceremony isn’t likely until 2019, and he’s not getting any younger, so [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britain-lets-public-name-a-new-polar-research-vessel/749577.md?page=3)