# For fans, or anyone nurturing a grudge.... **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 17, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fans-or-anyone-nurturing-a-grudge/625441 "2012-06-17T18:13:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fans-or-anyone-nurturing-a-grudge/625441/1 "2012-06-17T18:13:24Z")
…Cosmic Relief is now known as ‘HMS Irruncible’, for no particular reason other than now feels like a good time for a whimsicality upgrade, and such changes are permitted under rule IV, subsection pi, etc, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fans-or-anyone-nurturing-a-grudge/625441/2 "2012-06-17T18:27:41Z")
OK, I’ll bite. Besides the apparent obvious, what does HMS stand for in your name? ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fans-or-anyone-nurturing-a-grudge/625441/3 "2012-06-17T18:36:01Z")
Board rules prohibit me from expanding the acronym, indeed even from naming the rules involved in the prohibition. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fans-or-anyone-nurturing-a-grudge/625441/4 "2012-06-17T18:47:53Z")
The usual meaning of “HMS” is “His/Her Majesty’s Ship”, for a vessel flying the flag of the United Kingdom. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fans-or-anyone-nurturing-a-grudge/625441/5 "2012-06-17T19:23:16Z")
Yeah, that’s it. I’m just being coy because I’m not that clever. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fans-or-anyone-nurturing-a-grudge/625441/6 "2012-06-18T01:46:02Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > The usual meaning of “HMS” is “His/Her Majesty’s Ship”, for a vessel flying the flag of the United Kingdom. [Captain Hornblower] Right, that’s it, the night attack on the OP with runcible spoons is called off; he’s irruncible. [Lt. Bush] But couldn’t we fling mince and slices of quince at him? ---
**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:** [June 18, 2012, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fans-or-anyone-nurturing-a-grudge/625441/7 "2012-06-18T02:02:42Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > [Captain Hornblower] Right, that’s it, the night attack on the OP with runcible spoons is called off; he’s irruncible. > > [Lt. Bush] But couldn’t we fling mince and slices of quince at him? Awright, so why isn’t that nonruncible or unruncible? Was this person ever runcible? If so, and isn’t anymore, then it should be exruncible. Methunk them is a-smokin the foliage of the bong tree. English! Get used to it. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fans-or-anyone-nurturing-a-grudge/625441/8 "2012-06-20T05:07:14Z")
Huh. I was wondering who the fuck you were. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fans-or-anyone-nurturing-a-grudge/625441/9 "2012-06-20T18:06:05Z")
You keep on using that word… ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fans-or-anyone-nurturing-a-grudge/625441/10 "2012-06-20T18:12:34Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > Board rules prohibit me from expanding the acronym, indeed even from naming the rules involved in the prohibition. “Hitler Made Sense.” Gotcha. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fans-or-anyone-nurturing-a-grudge/625441/11 "2012-06-20T18:18:12Z")
Do you get an avatar with the new name? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fans-or-anyone-nurturing-a-grudge/625441/12 "2012-06-20T21:26:20Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Huh. I was wondering who the fuck you were. I still don’t know. Am I supposed to care? ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fans-or-anyone-nurturing-a-grudge/625441/13 "2012-06-20T22:07:50Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I still don’t know. Am I supposed to care? This thread is just a courtesy to the one or two people who may have wondered. But thanks for caring enough to drop by and post in it, at any rate. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fans-or-anyone-nurturing-a-grudge/625441/14 "2012-06-21T00:00:40Z")
Why should we care? You’re not even a real person. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fans-or-anyone-nurturing-a-grudge/625441/15 "2012-06-21T00:05:12Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > This thread is just a courtesy to the one or two people who may have wondered. But thanks for caring enough to drop by **and post in it** , at any rate. You misspelled “threadshit”. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fans-or-anyone-nurturing-a-grudge/625441/16 "2012-06-21T00:09:11Z")
If you’ll excuse me, I need to go take my evening post.