Back in November last year (2007), Greenpeace decided to hold an online poll to decide on a name for a Humpback whale as promotion for their campaign to save a bunch of whales from being killed.

Some of the top names included Aiko, Libertad, Mira, Kaimana, Aurora, Shanti, Amal and Manami, but they only got one percent of the vote each. 2nd place went to Humphrey with 3%. But the winner, with over 78% of the votes, and proof of the incredible power of the internet to do very silly things, was Mr Spashy Pants.

You can find the full story on wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Splashy_Pants

And you can also find a fantastic list of other internet phenomena here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_phenomena

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