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I'm sure the rename had good reason but I can't imagine going from a name like "HMS Endeavour", what a great name, to "Lord Sandwich" ... in modern times that s
by duxup 1y ago
I'm sure the rename had good reason but I can't imagine going from a name like "HMS Endeavour", what a great name, to "Lord Sandwich" ... in modern times that sounds like some lighthearted forum username.
- WalterBright 1y agoEven better: "Sir Osis of Liver"
- colechristensen 1y agoOnly when you forget that "sandwich" was a name of a place first (and the person with a title associated with it ". Putting stuff between bread is named after a person and may well have been poking fun at him originally.
- linksnapzz 1y agoThe HMS Lord Sandwich's namesake is almost certainly former 1st Lord of the Admiralty John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich && person that the dish is actually named after.
- jonstewart 1y agoHe was also head of the British navy ("First Lord of the Admiralty") at the time and a great supporter of Cook's, so there's even a closer connection specific to the Endeavor. Cook named Hawaii the "Sandwich Islands" after him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Montagu,_4th_Earl_of_Sandwich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Montagu,_4th_Earl_of_Sand...
- westurner 1y agoWhat were the existing names of the islands?
- cjs_ac 1y agoThe Earl of Sandwich was not a naval officer; the First Lord of the Admiralty was the chair of the Board of Admiralty, which was a committee formed to undertake the duties of the office of Lord High Admiral. The Board of Admiralty had responsibility for the administration of the Royal Navy. Operational command was (and remains) the responsibility of the Sea Lords; the most senior serving officer of the Royal Navy is the First Sea Lord.
- loloquwowndueo 1y agoHey at least it wasn’t Boaty McBoatface
- helsinkiandrew 1y agoAt that time the Royal Navy had in excess of 500 active ships and creating names must have taken some effort - there was a HMS Terrible and HMS Fanny.
- WalterBright 1y agoThe dreadnought class of warships have the best moniker.
- nkrisc 1y ago> HMS Terrible https://www.dictionary.com/browse/terrible https://www.dictionary.com/browse/terrible 3. exciting terror, awe, or great fear; dreadful; awful. 4. formidably great. I think it's a perfectly suitable name for a warship. The notion of "terrible" describing the inferior quality of something is a much more recent meaning, I believe.
- HeyLaughingBoy 1y agoYeah, but compare "HMS Fanny" to "HMS Indefatigable." Especially considering the British colloquial usage of "fanny" I think someone was in a particularly good mood that day.
- nkrisc 1y agoThat one I have no explanation for.
- ceejayoz 1y agoDon’t forget HMS Cockchafer, Spanker, and Tickler.
- falcor84 1y agoI love that they also marked up "Sandwich" as a tag, to make it easier for you to explore other articles they had published about sandwiches.
- teeray 1y agoIt also likely gave us Sandwich, MA, which consequently gave us the police there, who are literally “Sandwich Police”
- pcthrowaway 1y agoOr you can find an art gallery next to a Subway, where Sandwich artists work side by side.
- potato3732842 1y agoWhich is doubly funny because it's a tourist/retirement town with a larger than it needs police department (whole region is this way, not just this town) so they inevitably fill their time with with activities befitting the name.
- Electricniko 1y agoAre you saying the excessive number of police results in absurd enforcement practices, or are you saying their officers are large because they spend all day confiscating sandwiches?
- louthy 1y agoYes
- potato3732842 1y ago> they spend all day confiscating sandwiches? Enforcing a "no food or drink" posting in a public place that exists solely to drive business to vendors (who've doubtlessly paid an unnecessary chunk of flesh to the government for access to the captive market) is exactly the kind of thing I can see them doing.
- bryanlarsen 1y agoSame reason we get modern stupid names like "Crypto.com Arena". Those who pay the money and/or give the orders get to choose the name, and they like putting their own names on things.
- WalterBright 1y agoIn Seattle we have the "Climate Pledge Arena"
- tomcam 1y agoI’m hoping to get that changed to “Lord Sandwich Arena”
- sfjailbird 1y agoMaybe they did a public poll to name the vessel...
- moron4hire 1y agoThe bigger question is if making a Sandwich is considered Cooking.
- collingreen 1y agoSlow clap
- wpollock 1y agoThe even bigger question is, does a hot dog count as a sandwich?
- daedalus_j 1y agoIn case you were unaware: http://cuberule.com http://cuberule.com has solved this question definitively.
- moron4hire 1y agoIt's clearly an Usonian Taco.
- lordsandwich 1y agoHey, I resemble that remark. The Endeavor is not to be confused with Shackleton's ship the Endurance (as I had in my mind), which went down after getting mangled by pack ice and never got the chance to be officially renamed the "Lord Hamburger".