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Last night I came up with a horrible pun for naming the Hunchback and the Wolverine in the BattleTech playthrough I'm doing. I've named them...

... Starsky and Hunch.

So, has anybody else named their mechs using bad puns, or is it just me?

Michael

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>So, has anybody else named their mechs using bad puns, or is it just
>me?

I don't generally use puns, but a lot of my 'Mech names in various BT/MW-themed games over the years have been jokes or references of one kind or another. The PPC-armed Black Knight called Reddy Kilowatt, for instance, or the Hunchback named This Machine (short for "This Machine Kills Fascists", an abbreviation that later turned up on one of the unique named weapons in Fallout New Vegas). I also went through a phase where I was naming all of my characters' 'Mechs after World War II bombers, e.g., Hang the Expense, Lead Magnet, and Section Eight.

--G.
In hindsight, I imagine the Section Eight joke would make zero sense to anyone in 3025.
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Sounds more like Culture Ship names.

My favorite is the EOU (Eccentric Offensive Unit) Mistake Not...

Which is short for Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath

More here: https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_spacecraft

>Sounds more like Culture Ship names.
>
>My favorite is the EOU (Eccentric Offensive Unit) Mistake
>Not...
>
>Which is short for Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle
>Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas
>Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My
>Vast Oceans Of Wrath
>
>More here: https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_spacecraft

My favorite subsection of those is the "Insufficient Gravitas" set because it was in response to folks complaining about how frivolous some of the ship name were

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-Pasha
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>So, has anybody else named their mechs using bad puns, or is it just
>me?
>
>Michael

The closest I've come to that is a silly idea I had once to incorporate Zoanoid technology into a Destroid Monster.

I called it the M.A.C. Guyver. :D