[robbie-c]

I believe the user you are replying to was also joking, given that many of Banks' ship names reference the g-word

Edit: if not that's even more amusing

[marvin]

I'll make a minor contribution to the discussion by mentioning the Culture ship normally referred to as the Mistake Not..., which is shorthand for

"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 Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath".

Unsure if this name is also a sarcastic stab that the lack of gravitas in ships' names, but regardless it's very sad that Banks died young :(

[hesperiidae]

Yeah, it's making fun of the human desire for gravitas when it comes to ship names, since it's just exponentially more and more over the top.