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« Reply #50 on: September 02, 2007, 01:31:14 am » |
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One of my zeppelins will probably be named Montgolfier. The other will be a gunship, decked out from bow to stern with harpoons, cannons, flamethrowers, bomb-slingers, and that cow catapult from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It shall be called The Second Amendment.
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« Reply #51 on: September 02, 2007, 03:36:36 am » |
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I'd name mine the Highwind II after the most awesomest airship in videogaming history (of course, anyone could have guessed that after seeing my avatar  ) What game? |
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« Reply #52 on: September 02, 2007, 06:05:11 am » |
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If I could have my own dirigible, it carry the name of a starship I wrote about, the "Ion Butterfly".
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« Reply #53 on: September 02, 2007, 07:34:19 am » |
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Something appropriately grandiose. An adjective, perhaps. The Valiant, or the Exalted, something like that. For those with less time and/or inclination to spend hours musing over what to call their brainchild, though, there's a ship name generator kickin' around the Web that could save some time. Sometimes the results are a little... different, but that's randomization for you. |
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« Reply #54 on: September 02, 2007, 08:57:20 am » |
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Or perhaps, in the vein of Iain Banks's ship names, something like Don't Mind Me, I'm Just Passing Through.
Oh ho ho! much frivolity to be had with that concept  Straight rips could include No More Mister Niceguy or the sister ships I Blame My Mother and I Blame His Mother. For something original perhaps The Gravity of Your Situation... On an historic note, why not The Eckener? His name has never been honoured thus. What if we (ed.) do have a personal zeppelin?
Are you making a proposal sir, or speaking as royalty? I am a gentleman of means, and would consider "grubstaking" as it were a sum of money towards a private syndicate for such a venture. Do not mistake the seriousness of my intent. We can argue about ship names later! |
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« Reply #55 on: September 02, 2007, 09:03:04 am » |
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I think that is the best one so far. On the not-funny side. It really sounds like the description of a Zeppelin. |
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« Reply #56 on: September 02, 2007, 09:10:44 am » |
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I'd name mine the Highwind II after the most awesomest airship in videogaming history (of course, anyone could have guessed that after seeing my avatar ) *Grins* That'd be named for Cid Highwind's airship in FFVII, (arguably the "hottest" Final Fantasy Cid), of course. (I'd like to see him in the FFXII Dr Cid's outfit, though...) |
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« Reply #57 on: September 02, 2007, 07:19:45 pm » |
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Or perhaps, in the vein of Iain Banks's ship names, something like Don't Mind Me, I'm Just Passing Through.
Oh ho ho! much frivolity to be had with that concept Straight rips could include No More Mister Niceguy or the sister ships I Blame My Mother and I Blame His Mother. For something original perhaps The Gravity of Your Situation... On an historic note, why not The Eckener? His name has never been honoured thus. What if we (ed.) do have a personal zeppelin?
Are you making a proposal sir, or speaking as royalty? I am a gentleman of means, and would consider "grubstaking" as it were a sum of money towards a private syndicate for such a venture. Do not mistake the seriousness of my intent. We can argue about ship names later! oh are people makeing a pool to get a zepplin? |
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« Reply #58 on: September 02, 2007, 07:22:49 pm » |
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Names - nah, you number the buggers... and change the numbers often enough to give the anorak zep spotters fits! Cheers Harold |
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« Reply #59 on: September 02, 2007, 09:33:57 pm » |
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If I could have my own dirigible, it carry the name of a starship I wrote about, the "Ion Butterfly". When I first read that, I read it as "Iron Butterfly", which is possibly more appropriate for an airship. Hmm . . . Vendetta
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« Reply #60 on: September 02, 2007, 10:50:04 pm » |
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What about the HMS Leaping Weasel? |
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« Reply #61 on: September 02, 2007, 11:00:24 pm » |
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I would name mine the Slipstream Pioneer, but on reading this thread I thought that naming one The Countess of Lovelace might be a nice thing to do.
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« Reply #62 on: September 02, 2007, 11:18:04 pm » |
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6 RN ships, 1 USN ship, and 3 starships from various universes, but as far as I know no airships, so far, have been named Bellerophon.
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« Reply #63 on: September 02, 2007, 11:23:34 pm » |
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And yet, why no Icarus?
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« Reply #64 on: September 02, 2007, 11:45:25 pm » |
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Tempting fate, perhaps, with all that roasty-toasty luftgas just inches away?
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« Reply #65 on: September 03, 2007, 12:54:11 am » |
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And yet, why no Icarus?
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« Reply #66 on: September 03, 2007, 12:57:34 am » |
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There's only one decent name for a Zeppelin or dirigible.
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« Reply #67 on: September 03, 2007, 01:03:05 am » |
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« Reply #68 on: September 03, 2007, 01:15:26 am » |
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That seems almost insulting.
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« Reply #69 on: September 03, 2007, 01:19:03 am » |
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You take a big round zeppelin and name it after a woman, implying that she's fat.
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« Reply #70 on: September 03, 2007, 01:21:32 am » |
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You take a big round zeppelin and name it after a woman, implying that she's fat.
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« Reply #71 on: September 03, 2007, 01:26:57 am » |
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You take a big round zeppelin and name it after a woman, implying that she's fat.
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« Reply #72 on: September 03, 2007, 01:41:37 am » |
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I've always been fond of battleship names, so perhaps Resolution, Implacable, Zealandia, or Swiftsure.
Potemkin it is then... Sorry, I mean Потёмкин Then why not Avrora? |
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« Reply #73 on: September 03, 2007, 01:50:52 am » |
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That seems almost insulting.
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« Reply #74 on: September 03, 2007, 02:13:07 am » |
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How 'bout the HMS? Thus completed, it forms the overly excessively unnecessary redundancy of HMS HMS
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