Habitat for Inhumanity?
Nobel Kickass Prize?

I guarantee you that within ten minutes of the first "think quiet" sign being taped on a hatch door, a monocled and spatted Mr. Peanut cartoon will be drawn on every single one of them.

She shall forever be known as "Mr. Peanut"

I'ts a dead cert lock.

I guess they vetoed USS Kisser of Anti-American Dictator Asses as too wordy. Pity--it fits President Jimmuh better than his given name does.

Speaking of Carter... here's some of that wonderful bomb-throwing I was talking about in the Steve Lovelady post. Do you think these guys are really serious, or just blowing off steam?

When Clinton get's a ship named after him, i expect some hysterical nicknames

To the crews of other vessels, the USS Theodore Roosevelt is known as the Teddy Ruxpin. And now you know...the rest of the story. </Paul Harvey>

Thar she blows, Kenny.

Kenny: Willy's Steamboat

if they can name the first carrier after Dr/Professor S.P. Langley,who not only never flew a damn thing but never designed anything that did, and if they can name a destroyer after an English Prime minister ( USS Winston S. Churchill) they are capable of just about anything.

Re: Frank Martin.

The naming privilage rest with Congress. At our current climate, I'm kind of surprised that USS George H.W. Bush got through. That prospect of a USS George W. Bush sometime in the future look good, though they'd have some naming issue.

As for USS Jimmy Carter, I still held firm that the country would've been much much better served had he stay in the Navy.

A Navy acquaintance of mine (who may have been pulling my leg) told me that the sailors aboard CVN-72 Abraham Lincoln refer to the ship most reverently as "Shall Not Perish."

I suppose it could end up getting called the Killer Rabbit...

I'd vote for "The Swimming Rabbit" after the infamous Carter canoeing incident.

Regarding the USS Churchill, his mother was an American (Jenny Jerome). As Prime Minister Churchill noted in a speech before Congress, "I can't help but think that if my mother had been British and my father an American, I might have gotten here on my own."

I'm glad that we still have a Churchill on duty. ;-)

There was also a USS Comte De Grasse, named after the French Admiral who won the battle of the Chesapeake, sealing Cornwallis' doom in Yorktown.

And USS Canberra, named after the Australian cruiser sunk at Savo Island.

Wasn't that sub supposed to be christened the day Ronnie died?

Even in the end, peanut's overshadowed.

This is old news.

Killer Wabbit.

It's got to be the Killer Rabbit.

Bun-Bun, for preference.

(What, you don't follow Sluggy Freelance?)

USS Carter isn't a baseline SSN-21 class. It's got significant mods (incl hull extension) for covert ops: surveillance, SEAL insertion, etc. All that stuff Jimmah was so down on, back in the day.

Anyway, I guess we can stand by for joint ops by CVN-71 and CVN-77, the Stick and--well, what do you figure they'll nickname the GHW Bush?

"Joint ops." huh huh huh

Tiger because he's got one on his ass?

Bill Clinton's already got something named after him--the Marines and the Army use them, rather than the navy. Of course, they were named that before he took office, but hey, the Hummer is a useful vehicle.

RPL: Not only was Churchill's mother American (as you mentioned), but Churchill was also granted honorary American citizenship by the U.S. Congress in 1963. Churchill was one of the greats of the 20th Century, a staunch ally of the U.S.A., in addition to being much smarter as to Stalin and the Soviet Union's true nature than the majority of the American's of his day (including FDR). I consider, as a Navy vet myself, that the honor in naming a U.S. guided missile destroyer after Churchill is all OURS.

USS "Thank God we're not a helicopter"

Definitely Killer Wabbit.

Wasn't the USS Iowa (BB-61) also called "Big Stick"?

Don't forget the U.S.S. Kamehameha, a boomer named after a Hawaiian king who ruled in George Washington's day; and sister ship Simon Bolivar named for the famous South American democratic revolutionary.

/ex SSN-642 nuc.

Clearly it should be the USS Swamp Rabbit.

USS Stagflation.

Either that, or draw Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Snoopy, and all the rest on it

TO: Stephen Green
RE: Nickname for JC's Boat

The Lepur Colony.

[Note: Lepus is the genus of furry animal that once attacked Jimmy on a boat of his own.]

Regards,

Chuck(le)

Bet ya it sinks at the dock.

The Navy admitted late today that it is unable to get the USS Jimmy Carter out of harbor. The submarine apparently keeps making unexpected hard left turns out of the safe channel...

I'll put money on "Lepur Colony"... subtle, succinct... and funny.

Let's just fuck with the Mullahs. Call it the USS Tehran and park it in the Gulf.

Other names I like include:
USS Billy Beer
USS Stagflation
USS Lust In My Heart

TO: Sgt Mom
RE: Yeah....

"I'll put money on "Lepur Colony"... subtle, succinct... and funny." -- Sgt Mom

I was the designated Acronym Control Officer in my IOAC class. I did puns for s---s and grins.

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[If you can't laugh at yourself (and your circumstances) you have no right to laugh at anyone else.]

P.S. I'm eager to see if it becomes a 'hard luck' boat.

Could call it USS Jimmuh's Revenge, as in 'we're gonna hunt da wabbit, we're gonna hunt da wabbit...' Oh yeah, anyone know someone that can paint giant rabbit's heads? I can think of a coupla torpedoes that are gonna be looking mighty bare.

It'll be called "one of Lillian's boobs", have a Killer Rabbit painted on the bow, and leave peanut shells as a calling card.

The USS Crisis of Confidence.