The Internet Is Awesome.
The internet is a massive clusterfuck of all kinds of different people. But one thing always seems to pull them together, whether it is 4chan, a forum, Reddit, or a massive meme that stretches across all different areas of the tubes. That one thing is “pranks.” We fucking love them. Spamming a radio station with requests for Dragonforce, raiding a free online MMO with characters that block entrance to the swimming pool claiming it is “closed due to AIDS,” voting for the Spice Girls to add Baghdad to their tour list, sending thousands of free UPS shipping boxes to a guy who made it publicly known he was an asshole, etc.
The list really is endless, but there’s a new one: Greenpeace is adopting a whale, or something, and they put up an online poll so people could vote for the name of the whale. There’s a list of about 30 bullshit names like Sedna, Aiko, Moya, and Nurani. And, because it’s always fun to put something silly in an online poll, they included Mr. Splashy Pants as an option. This was posted on Reddit yesterday, with a request for everyone to vote for Mr. Splashy Pants. As is usually the case when a fun prank presents itself, the internet wasted no time:
I really do love the internet, and stuff like this just makes that love grow. The fact that the next most-voted name is “Libertad,” shows just how idiotic Greenpeace people can be. Who names their whale after a Velvet Revolver album?
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That is a quality name right there. I do already have a bit of an attachment to using “Pants” in a (nick)name, but wow . . . Mr. Splashy Pants. Too awesome.