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LOHAN to join mile-high club with BRITNEY or NAOMI?

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Poll The time has arrived to officially name the Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) mission control board - the electronic heart of our audacious ballocket spaceplane mission.

Click here for a bigger version of the LOHAN graphicTa very much to all those readers who chipped in with acronym/backronym suggestions, even if a good portion of them were unsuitable for a family publication such as El Reg.

Accordingly, we won't be reporting progress on Stratospheric Launch Apparatus Providing Pre-ignition to Experimental Rocket, Timed Window Altitude Trigger or Crucial Orbital Ignition Trigger Unmanned System.

Nonetheless, we have selected 10 choice cuts for the final vote, all of which are very much in the spirit of PARIS, LOHAN, REHAB, and indeed WIDDICOMBE.

So, you lovely people, let's get to it...

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An extra pint for the anonymous reader who emailed in the BRITNEY suggestion. Nice handling of the tricky "Y" there.

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Good work sir. I see your NIPS and raise you GROPETITTIES (Greatly Reduces Overheads in Personnel Expenditure with Technology to Import a Torrent of Text from Information Exposing Suppliers), a program I wrote for a retail operation that pulls stock availability data from large text files into a central database.

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Re: I'd vote for NAOMI

Sadly not - outrage now corrected.

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Re: pneumatic cannon and a cowering lackey

You know, if you could get your hands on a bunch of old iPhones, and make the trip to Redmond Washington, I could suggest a suitable "lackey" to attempt this project with.

He has this reputation for chucking chairs out of buildings.

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