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  • 2018-05-24 (xsd:date)
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  • Is the Navy Naming a Ship 'USS Tig Ol Bitties' After an Online Vote? (en)
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  • It is canon by now that asking the Internet to name something rarely goes as planned. In 2016, online pranksters famously attempted to name a new vessel for Britain's Natural Environment Research Council Boaty McBoatface. So is it really so implausible that the United States Navy might name a ship the USS Tig Ol Bitties? The well-known military satire web site Duffel Blog published an article on 17 May 2018, in which they jokingly claimed that the United States Navy was naming its new Zumwalt-class destroyer the USS Tig Ol Bitties after the name was chosen in an online contest. The satire site also included a fake tweet purporting to show President Donald Trump expressing his support: This is not a genuine tweet from President Trump and the US Navy is not planning on naming a new vessel the USS Tig Ol Bitties. The Duffel Blog has a long history of publishing actually humorous (and factually void) articles about military-related topics. The web site carries a disclaimer stating that all of its content is fictitious: For those who may not get the joke, this fictitious ship's name is an example of a spoonerism, a bit of word play that swaps the first letters of two words, which was named after William Archibald Spooner, a long-serving don at Oxford University in the late 1800s and early 1900s. (en)
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