When your client comes up with the brilliant idea of using crowd-sourcing...

[rcjordan]

...remind them that reddit & 4chan still exist and show them this.

UK asks public to name $300M boat; "Boaty McBoatface" leads vote

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/uk-asks-public-to-name-boat-boaty-mcboatface-leads/

Love this. Reddit can still smoke a server.

"Due to a high amount of traffic some users may be experiencing problems using the #NameOurShip site. Please bear with us.

— NERC (@NERCscience) March 20, 2016"

[littleman]

You think they would have leaned from Mr. Splashy Pants.

[Travoli]

Or the infamous "Dub the Dew" contest.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A_oZL9i31iY/UDOWc9psVmI/AAAAAAAAET0/OESNz6qYxsc/s1600/dub+the+dew.jpg

[Rupert]

Great Name... It will raise the profile of the work.

certainly "like no other!"

[rcjordan]

The US gov has had a couple of these naming contests and then reneged on it when they got the silly results they weren't expecting, even though the winning answer wasn't obscene.  I can think of no quicker way to disillusion someone about their government.

[rcjordan]

"Soon they will learn that resistance is futile, and the state's power is absolute."

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/19/boaty-mcboatface-tyrants-have-crushed-the-peoples-will

[Mackin USA]

"I can think of no quicker way to disillusion someone about their government."

YUP