History Funny / TheCulture

* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_of_the_Culture_setting names of Culture ships]] (or Minds) are utterly hilarious. Especially since each Mind names itself. For example:

** ''Funny It Worked Last Time…''

** ''Funny It Worked Last Time''

** ''Thank you And Goodnight''
** ''Hand Me The Gun And Ask Me Again''
** ''Ravished By The Sheer Implausibility Of That Last Statement''

** ''You May Not Be The Coolest Person Here''

** ''So Much For Subtlety''

** ''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'', or ''Mistake Not...'' for short.

** Becomes insanely funny when you hear about a race that insulted the Culture's ship names for 'lack of gravitas'. Of course, being The Culture, this resulted in ships like:

** ''[--[[GunboatDiplomacy I Said, I've Got A Big Stick]]--]''

*** Irregular Apocalypse
*** No More Mister Nice Guy
*** Of Course I Still Love You
*** So Much For Subtlety
*** Congenital Optimist
*** It's Character Forming
*** Frank Exchange of Views
*** I Blame My Mother
*** I Blame Your Mother
*** I Thought He Was With You
*** Funny It Worked Last Time
*** Boo!
*** Dramatic Exit Or Thank you And Goodnight
*** Hand Me The Gun And Ask Me Again
*** Ravished By The Sheer Implausibility Of That Last Statement
*** Zero Credibility
*** You May Not Be The Coolest Person Here
*** It's My Party And I'll Sing If I Want To
*** Falling Outside The Normal Moral Constraints
*** I Said, I've Got A Big Stick (written in small text, or spoken softly)
*** Refreshingly Unconcerned With The Vulgar Exigencies Of Veracity

*** Zero Gravitas
*** Very Little Gravitas Indeed
*** Stood Far Back When The Gravitas Was Handed Out
*** Low Gravitas Warning Signal
*** Absolutely No You-Know-What
*** Gravitas, What Gravitas?
*** Gravitas... Gravitas... No, Don't Help Me, I'll Get It In A Moment...
*** Gravitas Free Zone

* Pretty much everything the 'Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints' says is funny, mostly due to ComedicSociopathy.

* Pretty much everything the 'Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints' says is funny, mostly due to HeroicComedicSociopathy.

* In ''The Player Of Games'', TheEmpire of Azad was confused that the Culture didn't have any anthem to play to welcome the first ambassador, so the ambassador just whistled the first song that sprung to mind... a BawdySong called ''"Lick Me Out".'' The Azad... haven't been told about the lyrics yet.

*** Absolutely No You-Know-What

** The more destructive the class of ship, the more likely the name is going to be hypocritically hilarious.