For all the new members struggling to come up with a witty name

September 2, 2002 4:21 PM

For all the new members struggling to come up with a witty name,here are some suggestions.
Can I change my login to "GSV Just Another Victim Of The Ambient Morality"?
posted by signal to MetaFilter-Related at 4:21 PM (13 comments total)

If you're into ship names, check this out.
posted by hob at 5:48 PM on September 2, 2002

lame. lamer. lamest.
posted by y2karl at 6:22 PM on September 2, 2002

The Iain M Banks ship names are hilarious. Some are even a response to critics, or so I have heard. Banks alludes to it in this transcript of a web chat.
posted by Kafkaesque at 6:31 PM on September 2, 2002

Any of the following would also make great taglines:

Ravished By The Sheer Implausibility Of That Last Statement
Zero Credibility
Charming But Irrational
Demented But Determined
You May Not Be The Coolest Person Here
Lucid Nonsense

posted by mr_crash_davis at 8:07 PM on September 2, 2002

I love Banks' names for his culture ships.
I want to hearafter be known as:
The Precise Nature Of The Catastrope
posted by bshort at 8:44 PM on September 2, 2002

This comment in a February thread about using MeTa as a chatroom might be worth reading.
posted by mediareport at 11:06 PM on September 2, 2002

Indeed. And there have been others.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 12:20 AM on September 3, 2002

Thanks, mediareport. Reading over that thread reminds me that I miss seeing rcb around here.

So, who do you miss on MetaX?
posted by precocious at 1:10 AM on September 3, 2002

Och, sorry, reflex.
posted by precocious at 1:10 AM on September 3, 2002

Shipname signoffs are fun to use for email - on the Culture discussion mailing list, a tradition has grown up of ending each message with a shipname that's somehow related to the subject of your email. It lets you get in a parting shot or a nice summary of what you've said.

Adrian
GSV What are the civilian applications?
posted by adrianhon at 3:09 AM on September 3, 2002

This comment in a February thread about using MeTa as a chatroom might be worth reading.

Yes, mediareport. This doesn't seem to be a MeTa post. Couldn't resist commenting though.
posted by Kafkaesque at 9:11 AM on September 3, 2002

I'm a big fan of Iain Banks as well. Sorry to go off tangent, but what is the address for the Culture mailing list?

GSV Casual Observer
posted by Argyle at 11:58 AM on September 3, 2002

Argyle: You can find the mailing list's website at www.theculture.org and the Culture Data Repository also has information about the list.

However! I have to warn you that it is a rare day indeed that anyone on the list ever mentions Iain Banks. Admittedly, it's happening slightly more often these days because of Dead Air, but even so we don't stay on-topic much. I prefer to put it this way - if you are the type of person who likes reading Banks, chances are that you'll enjoy the list.
posted by adrianhon at 1:05 PM on September 3, 2002