When Winston Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty, he wanted to name a battleship after William Pitt. He was dissuaded from doing so by the then First Sea Lord, who, thanks to his decades of experience in the RN (he'd been in uniform almost as long as Winnie Churchill had been alive...) and his extensive knowledge of le matelot d'Anglais and their way of finding scatological names for any ship, just knew what they'd call anything with 'Pitt' in its name.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
