I blogged a while back about some Greenpeace scheme to stop Japanese whaling by naming a humpback. They were asking the "community" to vote on the name of their new cetacean friend. Well, the results are in and, yes friends, MISTER SPLASHY PANTS has won the day! In celebration, I invite you to hug your nearest tree.
Why is Mr. Splashy Pants wearing a diaper? Are those his PANTS? His ... splashy pants?
Who says eco-activists are a humorless lot? Greenpeace is crowdsourcing the naming of whales travelling something called the "Great Whale Trail". Of the list of 30 names, twenty nine appear to be some computer-generated random phonetic babble. Japanese for "little love", or Arabic for "star", or Swahili for "hippy" or something. Those granola-crunchers love the Swahili. Anyway, the one name that doesn't suck: Mister Splashy Pants.
Guess which name currently has a 68% lead over its closest twenty-nine competitors?
Go vote now. I don't really know what you're voting for, but in a poll that contains "Mister Splashy Pants" as an option, I think the right choice is clear.
