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Brits have poll to name research ship... Maybe rethinking that now.

Posted on 4/18/16 at 6:42 am
Posted by TejasHorn
High Plains Driftin'
Member since Mar 2007
11817 posts
Posted on 4/18/16 at 6:42 am
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Boaty McBoatface wins poll to name polar research vessel




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The suggestion, which sent the competition viral last month, received 124,109 votes, four times more than RRS Poppy-Mai – named after a 16-month-old girl with incurable cancer – which came in second place.




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Posted by CoachChappy
Member since May 2013
34328 posts
Posted on 4/18/16 at 6:43 am to
We know
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
76153 posts
Posted on 4/18/16 at 6:44 am to
Home port of Bremerhaven?
Posted by CptRusty
Basket of Deplorables
Member since Aug 2011
11740 posts
Posted on 4/18/16 at 6:46 am to
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4 - RRS It’s bloody cold here – 10,679


Posted by zmanthetigerfan
Prairieville, LA
Member since Oct 2015
889 posts
Posted on 4/18/16 at 6:49 am to
Youre only about a month late homie
Posted by foshizzle
Washington DC metro
Member since Mar 2008
40599 posts
Posted on 4/18/16 at 7:08 am to
Yet one more example of how "traditional" news sources are way behind social media.
Posted by Funky Tide 8
Bayou Chico
Member since Feb 2009
57340 posts
Posted on 4/18/16 at 7:12 am to
Thanks OP, I had not seen this. Funny shite.
Posted by redstick13
Lower Saxony
Member since Feb 2007
41380 posts
Posted on 4/18/16 at 7:21 am to
RRS I like big boats and I cannot lie.
Posted by VaBamaMan
North AL
Member since Apr 2013
8330 posts
Posted on 4/18/16 at 7:43 am to
Nah, they announced the final voting only yesterday. A month ago was the news it was being voted on and had the lead. The voting finished on Sunday? I think? Didn't bother reading the article, read one on it yesterday.
Posted by im4LSU
Hattiesburg, MS
Member since Aug 2004
34543 posts
Posted on 4/18/16 at 7:45 am to
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Similarly in 2012, soft drinks brand Mountain Dew was forced to abandon a poll to name its new apple-flavoured drink after it was hijacked by message board 4chan who ensured that “Hitler did nothing wrong” won the vote.



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