Pre-poll: (law) City Naming

[BigFurryMonster]

New suggestion: vote on the city names democratically.

[ruby_maser]

Originally posted by Duddha
I oppose this clause with all my might! This is the only reward most ministers get for all of their tiresome work.

Let the ministers pick then... but choose a theme to work with and not something as random and arbitrary as most of the names seem to be.

And, anyway, I doubt anyone who ran and continues to run for office would have a right to feel the work they are doing is "tiresome" as it is completely voluntary.

[jdjdjd]

I see no reason to have a law/amendment for this, and wonder if you were smoking your famous bananabus at the time.

[Epistax]

I disagree with 2A. Sure I don't want anyone naming a city after themselves, but someone's name may just happen to be a good city name (say, suggested by someone else)

[ThePlagueRat]

That's a point Epistax.
Just now it seems that §4 will lay one head in front of the others.
Silly names could then appear in the future too.

So should we include the none-abbreviation clause as well?

[ThePlagueRat]

The most popular clause one at the moment:


§4 "Each cabinet member can choose one cityname whereas
that name can refer to anything that he wishes to.
The cabinet member can therefore include his own nickname."


- This would permit any stpd. name incl. abbr. or a compl. ridicls. nick

See?

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Perhaps we could could simply have a law that ANY cityname must pass a vote before going into effect. Say a minister chooses to name a city after himself, fine, but more citizens must vote approval than vote disapproval. If it is voted down, the minister may take ideas posted in the thread and "tinker" the name abit and then resubmit a name for the city.

[ThePlagueRat]

A very good idea Ghengis! Now we are getting somewhere...

[GodKing]

Good idea GF

[OPD]

how about an OPD clause whereby the president can make up or open the floor to suggestions for temporary names when new names are not avaliable like when we take 4 cities in ones turn.

[ThePlagueRat]

Well, that's right... but should he not then inquire his (hopefully) cooperating Ministers for those four names?

[Meshelic]

GF always seems to have good suggestions. I agree.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by OPD
how about an OPD clause whereby the president can make up or open the floor to suggestions for temporary names when new names are not avaliable like when we take 4 cities in ones turn.

As long as the official can spell and doesn't mistype TWO of the city names............

"I suggest Hole in the Wall"
(in OPD type: Holeinwall)

"I suggest Boomtown"
(In OPD type: Boom_town)

Dare I continue: enomomy, Comander, and millitaty.

And that was just over the weekend.

The OPD era will be remembered fondly for the Great Wonders that were wrought and the fact that we only had a 6% literacy rate....................

(Its just in fun, OPD. I may not LOVE you as much as WhiteBandit, but you're okay in my book.)

[ThePlagueRat]

I don't know why so many people voted for a clause where
the ministers nicknames could be the cityname.
Do the people think the nicknames here are so cool?

But it's gonna be in the amendment too because I posted that option, perhaps along with a restriction on abbreviations on citynames? So OPD could not be a cityname, while Timeline can?
What about that?


(the whole point was to avoid silly names like BFM and AGC)

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Where did this "Neon Uber City" come from? We worked to get a bunch of the silly names fixed before the end of last term and the first thing that happens is another weird name for a city.

When are we going to get "Hot Pink Pinapple City" or maybe we should found "Sunburst Yellow Glow Astro Bright City"?

Sheesh.