Terrible names (a scratch building challenge)

[jqavins]

I especially like the way the base of the nose cone is wider than the body tube.

I designed (but never built) one a little like that, but I used conical base flare instead of fins. And mine was shorter.

 

[mooffle]

And mine was shorter.

Haha, how bout this name:
Size matters?
The question mark is definitely part of the name

 

[Daddyisabar]

Imminent Destruction
Don't press the button!

 

[mjennings]

Pointy end down
I think this will work
Tree food
I got a good feeling about this one
Cursed
O' chute
Between a rocket and a hard place
What could go wrong

 

[neil_w]

How about, simply: Unstable

 

[jqavins]

Zero Point Nine

 

[BABAR]

Watch List

ATF Bait

No Va (try google translate, the space is required.)

 

[jqavins]

Legend has it that that's why the Chevy Nova did not sell well in Mexico.

 

[BABAR]

Legend has it that that's why the Chevy Nova did not sell well in Mexico.

i heard the same story.

something also about translating “Coke adds life” into one of the Oriental languages, came out
”Coke brings your ancestors back from the dead!”

 

[jqavins]

And "It takes a hard man to make a tender roaster" coming out as "It takes a sexually aroused man to make a chicken affectionate".

Bad translations are one thing; those can be corrected. When the bad "translation" is built into the product name you're just screwed. That is, if any of these are true.

 

[DrewW]

How about, simply: Unstable

I like “Simply Unstable” even better

 

[BABAR]

Ballistic

 

[DrewW]

Ballistic

Playing on that, how about “Won’t go Ballistic”?

 

[jqavins]

Playing on that, how about “Won’t go Ballistic”?

"Probably Won't Go Ballistic"

 

[DrewW]

"Probably Won't Go Ballistic"

I’m in the planning stages for an Excalibur which is a non ballistic artillery projectile. And now I think I have it’s name. Thank you

 

[BABAR]

Ballistic or Bust!

or, for a low power Park Flyer

Inner City Ballistic Missile

 

[jqavins]

I’m in the planning stages for an Excalibur which is a non ballistic artillery projectile. And now I think I have it’s name. Thank you.

The thread title is Terrible Names. So I guess I failed.

 

[neil_w]

Prang

 

[lakeroadster]

Pointy End Up

Edit: Hmm... Guess I should have searched the thread before I typed.. sorry @mjennings

 

[dhbarr]

Getting In Touch With Your Inner Self
Pants A-Brownin'
Hypercolonic
Vlad al III-lea Țepeș
To See Them Driven Before You

 

[lakeroadster]

Vlad al III-lea Țepeș

Ding... DIng... Ding... We have a winner!

Contestants, put your pencils on your table.. and eyes looking forward!

 

[jqavins]

Hypercolonic

It's only hypercolonic if it reaches several times the speed of poop. If it's over about poop 1.2 it's supercolonic, and below tbat it's merely transcolonic.

 

[neil_w]

Ding... DIng... Ding... We have a winner!

Contestants, put your pencils on your table.. and eyes looking forward!

I'm gonna need an explanation for that one.

 

[DrewW]

The thread title is Terrible Names. So I guess I failed.

sort of, the reason this was in scratch builds is I was hoping some of these terrible names would be inspiration for great or at least interesting designs

 

[dhbarr]

I'm gonna need an explanation for that one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_the_Impaler

 

[lakeroadster]

I'm gonna need an explanation for that one.

Terrible names... Vlad The Impaler... what's worse?

 

[jqavins]

[W]hat's worse?

Vlad the impa... BOOM!

 

[Funkworks]

I'd say "Shish Kebob!" ... but I think it's pushing it too far, so I won't. So in the same line, I'll just add:

The Chop Stick
The Knitting Needle

 

[jqavins]

Fred

 

[mooffle]

Jenga, perhaps a square body with a break apart style recovery.
The crumple zone.