I think it was a joke. I suspect the Face of Boe was already a famous creature when Jack was a boy, and that he was nicknamed after it because a) he's so vain that people would tease him about being just a big face and b) it sounds like the place he comes from.
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Date: 2007-10-19 06:43 pm (UTC)