The Culture's starship names - got any suggestions? (Iain M Banks)

[High Eight]

What Rules of Engagement?
Are You Talking To Me?
A Better Mousetrap
Keep Taking the Tablets

 

[Marcus15]

I gave at the office
That looks like it hurts
Free drink with purchase
My nose itches
A round for the house
You'll put your eye out

 

[Tillane]

GSVs:
Slow Descent Into Anarchy
Temporal Lapse
Indifference Engine
Vapid Sensawunda

 

[elequentharold]

Prolific Fibber
Promotion to Ennui
.. ' just get my jacket....
one Carefree Owner
Adult Intervention
Compound Error
Long Sighted, short tempered...
Carry on Regardless
deja vu again
My Personal Favourite
Pride of Place
Tired of Debates
Explicit Content
Lacking All Reason

 

[elequentharold]

Who Would've Guessed?
Final Remedy
Lacking Moral Fibre
Countermand Last Order
Posessed of Knowledge
Tried Explaining
are we there yet?
Heavy Sedation

 

[Moonbat]

these are grest guys, I have also always been a fan of the ship names, so for posterity I shall add my own. Let's see how silly I can get.

It was like that when I got here
Phew! I thought it was new
Amoebas on fleas on rats
shortback and sides grade two
I did think of it, but you said it first
it wasn't meant to turn out like that
lightspeed is for losers
He isn't in my banks
Spermicidal Ovulations
I'll give him one of these!
But if you were me then I'd be you and I'd use your body to get to the top (probably the single greatest line in any film anywhere ever)
A Priest, A Rabbi and a Muslim cleric walk into a ski-shop
Did you ever stop to think? No but I started!
It's my go on the swings
If there's one thing you know about me


God, I could go on all day (that wasn't one)

 

[UnethicalSolutions]

(apologies for any repetitions) How about:

ROUs...
- Stop that or you'll be in trouble
- Wait 'till your father gets home
- I'm not going to wait 'till your father gets home
- Idle hands
- Gravitas is for wimps
- Don't be stupid. Oh, OK then.
- Outside Context Problem for hire (only joking)

GSVs ...
- Crunchy on the outside
- Optimistic, in spite of all the evidence
- Pessimistic, in spite of all the evidence
- Yet another victim of applied metaphysics
- Beautiful data (Ignore any outliers)
- Realistically it's highly unlikely


Someone else already bagged 'Indistinguishable from magic', which is a goodie IMO.

 

[Rodders]

Speak softly and carry a large stick?

 

[Ursa major]

Squeak Softly and Carry a Large Shtick?

 

[Little Rascal]

Speak Schtick and carry a large Soft-Toy!


the...ROU (convert-craft; ex, UFP, U.S.S Vouager) up-rated Psychopath class design study, ....."Here's Johnny!"

 

[bobbo19]

Take It Easy
Mind The Gap!
A Subtle Transition
The Lasting Transience
Stings Like A Bee

 

[gully_foyle]

Despite these efforts, I haven't noticed Iain using any of these names. Come on Banksy! Also, are there naming standards pertaining to ROUs vs GSVs? I must have missed it, or it is too subtle for me (been known to happen).

 

[Rodders]

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Violent diplomatic

 

[reiver33]

Hallucination By Consensus

Everybody Lies

Reality Is Overrated

 

[williamjm]

Despite these efforts, I haven't noticed Iain using any of these names. Come on Banksy! Also, are there naming standards pertaining to ROUs vs GSVs? I must have missed it, or it is too subtle for me (been known to happen).

The various types of OUs do seem to have more violent names than the non-warships, such as the Killing Time or Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints.

 

[Bowler1]

Trust me, I know what I'm doing.
Remote, what remote?
I don't need instructions.

 

[bedlamite]

If I know where I last had it, it wouldn't be lost

Tune in next week, folks

No way was this in the brochure.

 

[J-Sun]

UltraCulture's "May Contain Nuts" is probably my favorite but Pyan's "Einstein Was Wrong" is right up there. I also liked Gully Foyle's "Bad News" and many others are good and/or sound right. My attempts:

ROU...
Diplomacy by Other Means
You Should See the Other Ship
You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry
Bang!
Smells Like Victory
The Other Side of the Issue
Enough Rope

GSV...
Cavort-prone (from Banks, himself, but not as a ship name)
This Time For Sure!
It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
I Meant to Do That
A Fleeting Glimpse
You Mean That's Not Supposed to Happen?
Expecting Different Results
Connecting the Dots

 

[alchemist]

Given the news yesterday, I imagine Banks being subsumed into a Mind and travelling the galaxy aboard the Not Confined To Any One Genre.

 

[Ursa major]

Given the news yesterday, I imagine Banks being subsumed into a Mind and travelling the galaxy aboard the Not Confined To Any One Genre.

Leaving the ROU Where's the Rest of My Oeuvre, BBC? high above New Broadcasting House.