The best snarky warship name I have encountered was not in Iain Banks. It was in Eoin Colfer's "And Another Thing...". He named the Vogon ship "Business End".
It might be time to retire the snarky ship name competition, because nothing will ever approach that.
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]]>Mistake Not… (My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath).
]]>(I still/yet haven't read Banks. Yes, I intend to fix that very soon!)
]]>In other news a "doctored" (Coated) graphene sheet can filter seawater for a fresh output ...
]]>(Unpacking: Jay Leno once made a joke about Al Qaeda fighters protesting against being bombed from 30,000 feet. Mr. Leno said, "Why do we do it? Because we can.")
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