Comments on: The “Name My Floater” Contest

By: L PRAVEEN KUMAR

L PRAVEEN KUMAR — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:22:57 +0000

I would suggest the name `Ping-Pong’ for the floater

By: keif

keif — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:17:25 +0000

That totally looks like Skrat. Y’know, from Ice Age. Did you get an acorn in your eye?

By: Anita Kuno

Anita Kuno — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:25:11 +0000

‘Forrest Gump’s feather’.

‘Cause you never know what you’re gonna get.

By: Janna

Janna — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:30:11 +0000

I say “Flotilla the Hun” after floater & Attila the Hun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila_the_Hun)
because both are the epitome of cruelty.

By: Ian Irving

Ian Irving — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:21:57 +0000

Voldemort ? particularly in his non corporeal form.

By: darryl

darryl — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:23:07 +0000

Or how about “Q” — it pops up out of nowhere, annoys the hell out of you, and just won’t go away (of course he’s my favourite TNG character)

By: Delilah

Delilah — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:06:39 +0000

“Squintchy”

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:22:35 +0000

How about “LOOse Reed” – in honor of the musician as well as the problem that befalls all accordion players when their instrument is abused and an important piece starts rattling around on the inside…

Hope it dissolves soon!

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:19:59 +0000

I agree with #15
…Gotta go with Mr Hanky. It is a floater after all…

By: Steph

Steph — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:27:19 +0000

Moby?

By: Stella

Stella — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:03:20 +0000

Speck.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 04:11:05 +0000

How about “Mr. Jobs”

He’s annoying, never seems to fully go away, and when you finally think he’s gone he shows up to ruin things.

Also, from your gif, I’d swear it’s wearing a black turtleneck

By: Mark Jaquith

Mark Jaquith — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:51:41 +0000

“Cursor”

“Flotilla”

Also, if it doesn’t go away, there’s a guy in Virginia who specializes in zapping them. This video is awesome. Watch to the end to see an actual clip of him zapping a floater. Every time he hits it, it jumps, bubbles go up, and it is reduced in size.

By: Wossname

Wossname — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:24:35 +0000

How about Jack Dawson, the irritating Leonardo DiCaprio in that incredibly irritating movie, Titanic? After all, he must be floating around somewhere. “I wiiillll go on and on and on.”

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:19:39 +0000

Natalie Wood

By: Sly

Sly — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:56:21 +0000

“Hanging monkey”. It’s what your drawing looks like

By: Kamlesh Chandra

Kamlesh Chandra — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:18:20 +0000

“sailing albatross”

…At length did cross an Albatross,
Thorough the fog it came…
It ate the food it ne’er had eat,
And round and round it flew.
The ice did split with a thunder-fit ;
The helmsman steered us through !…

(extract from the poem – the rime of ancient mariner)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albatross_(metaphor)

By: Oliver

Oliver — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:20:33 +0000

Call it ‘Pretty Girl’. That way when ever someone caches your gaze drifting and asks… you can say a pretty girl distracted you. Probably ends up being true half the time anyways

By: Mallory

Mallory — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:54:43 +0000

I like Bob as well. But perhaps you should call it Scott. Because, like Scott, it’s annoying and won’t go away for awhile.

By: Ry4an

Ry4an — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:03:15 +0000

I was saving it for a first born son, but you can have ‘Aliosius’. Dignified and unique.

If you want something more directly linked to the effect perhaps, ‘HUD’ (Heads Up Display).