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September 8th, 2001, 12:16 AM
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Re: An Open Source Project.
Ok, I wanted to stay 'purist' and only use animal metaphors but the number wasn't going to be enough. After bending a little bit on the rules I've got 150 metaphor derived names. That's enough for relatively low 're-usage' in a real game. Dunno how some of them would look as ship names, but here they are.
800-lb Gorilla
Alley Cat
Barrel of Monkeys
Bat Out of Hell
Beached Whale
Bird in Hand
Bird of Prey
Black Sheep
Blind as a Bat
Bottled Lightning
Brass Monkey
Bug in a Rug
Bull Feathers
Bull Pen
Busy Beaver
Busy Bee
Buzzing Insect
Caged Bird
Can of Worms
Chattering Magpie
Chicken Feed
Clay Pigeon
Clinging Vine
Cock of the Walk
Coffin Nail
Cold Fish
Cool Cat
Crocodile Tears
Dark Horse
Dead Dog
Dead Duck
Deputy Dog
Dirty Rat
Dirty Bird
Dog in the Manger
Dumb Bunny
Dumb Ox
Dust Bunny
Eagle Eye
Early Bird
Fine Feathered Friend
Fire-bug
Fish in a Barrel
Fish Out of Water
Fly on the Wall
Fat Cat
Flash in the Pan
Fraidy Cat
Frog in the Throat
Frog Prince
Gay Dog
Gift Horse
Gilded Lily
Gold-bug
Grape Ape
Grased Lightning
Great White Buffalo
Guttersnipe
Hair of the Dog
Hepcat
Holy Cow
Holy Mackerel
Homing Pigeon
Horse Feathers
Horse Laugh
Horse Sense
Hush Puppy
Iron Horse
Iron in the Fire
Jail Bird
Kettle of Fish
Lab Rat
Lame Duck
Laughing Hyena
Lazy Grasshopper
Legal Eagle
Lion in Winter
Lion's Share
Loan Shark
Lone Wolf
Lonesome Dove
Long Pig
Long Spoon
Lounge Lizard
Love Bird
Lucky Dog
Male Chauvinist Pig
Mall Rat
March Hare
Moby Grape
Monkey Business
Monkey on Your Back
Mother Hen
Naked Ape
Nest Egg
Newshound
Old Coot
Old Crow
Old Goat
Pale Horse
Pig in a Poke
Pink Elephant
Pink Panther
Raging Bull
Ratfink
Red Herring
Road Hog
Rubber Chicken
Rubber Duckie
Rug Rat
Sacred Cow
Sacrificial Lamb
Scapegoat
Scaredy Cat
Screaming Eagle
Scurvy Dog
Shaggy Dog
Shaved Fish
Shrinking Violet
Silly Goose
Sitting Duck
Sleeping Dog
Sleeping Giant
Sly Dog
Sly Fox
Snake in the Grass
Solitary Oyster
Sour Grapes
Spring Chicken
Stolen Thunder
Stone Pony
Stool Pigeon
Straw Dog
Straw Man
Stubborn Mule
Super Fly
Tar Baby
Top Cat
Trained Monkey
Ugly Duckling
Wall Flower
Warhawk
Watchdog
Wet Blanket
Wet Hen
White Elephant
Wise Old Owl
Wolf at the Door
Yard Ape
Young Lion
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September 8th, 2001, 12:25 AM
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Re: An Open Source Project.
Reflex action
Cocked Up
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Leguin
The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton - guess who....
The Right Hand of Justice...
A Leap of Intuition
Jumping to Conclusions
Not Welcome Mattress
I am out of Here!
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A Loaded Question
A Nebulous Response
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September 8th, 2001, 12:44 AM
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Re: An Open Source Project.
I got another one:
Sick Puppy
Rollo
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September 8th, 2001, 12:47 AM
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Re: An Open Source Project.
Going Off Half Cocked
Back To Square One
Actually I doubt that you are able to square a one, you think that it remains one too.
Dont be asinine
Take A Wild *** Guess
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Would you rather :
Be taken up on it
Be Taken upstairs for a ride
Be taken aback
be taken along for the Hell of it
????
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September 8th, 2001, 04:55 PM
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Re: An Open Source Project.
quote:
Flash in the Pan
Fire in the Hole
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human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"
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September 9th, 2001, 09:47 AM
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Re: An Open Source Project.
quote:
Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Grased Lightning
Oops, that's probably "Greased Lightning", unless there is a reference I'm not familiar with. 
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September 10th, 2001, 10:12 PM
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Re: An Open Source Project.
Of all the ships names i came across all the Sci Fi novels i´ve read, the most impressive to me (i never forget that) is in the "culture" saga of Iain Banks
They have a capitol ship that sizes about 6 km long, able to destroy a world, with gazillions of populations into it.
Its commanded by an AI, and its name is...
"Size isn´t everything"
There are other names troughout the novels (i´ve read 3) and i was always amazed by that ...
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