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Offline JimiD (OP)

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Culture Ship Names
« on: December 10, 2011, 08:18:36 AM »
I have been meaning to pull this together for a while, and forgive me if its already in the txt files, but below a list of all 180 names of Culture ships from the Iain M Banks Novels.

You'll have to make your own txt files, but its easier than uploading files:

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Nervous Energy
Prosthetic Conscience
Bora Horza Gobuchul
Determinist
Eschatologist
Irregular Apocalypse
No More Mr Nice Guy
Revisionist
Trade Surplus
The Ends Of Invention
Screw Loose
Flexible Demeanour
Just Read The Instructions
Of Course I Still Love You
Limiting Factor
Cargo Cult
Little Rascal
So Much For Subtlety
Unfortunate Conflict Of Evidence
Youthful Indiscretion
Gunboat Diplomat
Zealot
Kiss My Ass
Prime Mover
Just Testing
Xenophobe
Very Little Gravitas Indeed
What Are The Civilian Applications?
Congenital Optimist
Size Isn't Everything
Sweet and Full of Grace
Different Tan
Fate Amenable To Change
Grey Area
Meatfrakker
It's Character Forming
Jaundiced Outlook
Problem Child
Reasonable Excuse
Recent Convert
Tactical Grace
Unacceptable Behaviour
Steely Glint
Hightpoint
Shoot Them Later
Attitude Adjuster
Killing Time
Heavy Messing
Frank Exchange Of Views
Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The
Death and Gravity
Ethics Gradient
Honest Mistake
Limivorous
No Fixed Abode
Quietly Confident
Sleeper Service
Univited Guest
Use Psychology
What Is The Answer and Why?
Wisdom Like Silence
Yawning Angel
Zero Gravitas
Misophist
Serious Callers Only
Not Invented Here
Charitable View
I Blame My Mother
I Blame Your Mother
Bad for Business
Arbitary
Cantakerous
Only Slightly Bent
I Thought He Was With You
Spce Monster
A Series Of Unlikely Explanations
Big Sexy Beast
Never Talk To Strangers
Funny, It Worked Last Time...
Boo!
Ultimate Ship The Second
It'll Be Over By Christmas
A Ship With A View
Ablation
Arrested Development
Credibility Problem
Dramatic Exit, Or, Thank You And Goodnight
Excuses And Accusations
Go Told Me To Do It
Halation Effect
Happy Idiot Talk
Helpless In The Face Of Your Beauty
Heresiarch
Just Another Viction Of The Ambient Morality
Minority Report
Not Wanted On Voyage
Perfidy
Sacrificial Victim
Stranger Here Myself
Synchronize Your Dogmas
The Precise Nature Of The Catastraphe
Unwitting Accomplice
Undesirable Alien
Well I Was In The Neighbourhood
You Would If You Really Loved Me
You'll Thank Me Later
Nuisance Value
Vulgarian
Sactioned Parts List
Reistance Is Character-Forming
All Through With THis Niceness And Negotiation Stuff
Someone Else's Problem
Lacking That Small Match Temperament
Poke It With A Stick
I Said, I've Got A Big Stick
Hand Me The Gun And Ask Me Again
But Who's Counting?
Germane Riposte
We Haven't Met But You're A Great Fan Of Mine
All The Same, I Saw It First
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
Awkward Customer
Thorough But Unreliable
Advanced Case Of Chronic Patheticism
Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory
Conventional Wisdom
In One Ear
Fine Till You Came Along
I Blame The Parents
Inappropriate Repsonse
A Momentary Lapse Of Sanity
Lapsed Pacifist
Reformed Nice Guy
Pride Comes Before A Fall
Injury Time
Now Look What You've Made Me Do
Kiss This Then
Lasting Damage
Experiencing A Signifiant Gravitas Shortfall
Don't Try This At Home
Eight Rounds Rapid
It's My Party And I'll Sing If I Want To
Lightly Seared On The Reality Grill
Now We Try It My Way
Liveware Problem
Pure Big Mad Boat Mad
Qualifier
Seed Drill
Subtle Shift In Emphasis
Transient Atmospheric Phenomenon
Xenoglossicist
You Naughty Monster
You'll Clean That Up Before You Leave
Sense Amid Madness, Wit Amidst Folly
Me, I'm Counting
Bodhisattva
Total Internal Reflection
Armchair Traveller
The Usual But Etymologically Unsatisfactory
Hidden Income
falling Outside The Normal Moral Constraints
Hylozoist
No One Knows What The Dead Think
Pelagian
Fixed Grin
Scar Glamour
Labtebricolephile
Dressed Up To Party
Stood Far Back When The Gravitas Was Handed Out
Gravitas, What Gravitas
Gravitas... Gravitas... No, Don't Help Me, I'll Get It It A Moment...
Gravitas Free Zone
Low Gravitas Warning Signal
Absolutely No You-Know-What

Now to launch some amusingly titled Battleships.   
 

Offline HaliRyan

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Re: Culture Ship Names
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2011, 07:46:57 PM »
Banks does the best ship names, my favourite Culture ship name was the warship Frank Exchange of Views
 

Offline PTTG

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Re: Culture Ship Names
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2011, 12:46:21 PM »
There's a typo:

Gravitas... Gravitas... No, Don't Help Me, I'll Get It It A Moment...

should probably be:

Gravitas... Gravitas... No, Don't Help Me, I'll Get It In A Moment...