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I don't know why we allowed any of those Canadian comedians on here to begin with.
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Damn you, Asher.Originally posted by Asher
12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
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Re: Re: Naming insignificant buildings after significant people
He assumes that everybody's as ignorant of others as he is.Originally posted by JohnT
What makes you think we wouldn't know that?
12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
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I'm naming my trashcan the George W. Bush can.Talk and chat in the Freebie and Webmaster Discussion ForumsComment
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Don't recall any parking garages named after famous people, but Berkeley is home to a landmarked parking lot.
The most ironic of the Reagan buildings has got to be the Ronald Reagan International Airport.Visit First Cultural Industries
There are reasons why I believe mankind should live in cities and let nature reclaim all the villages with the exception of a few we keep on display as horrific reminders of rural life.-Starchild
Meat eating and the dominance and force projected over animals that is acompanies it is a gateway or parallel to other prejudiced beliefs such as classism, misogyny, and even racism. -General LuddComment
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The Margaret Thatcher Household Waste Landfill Site. There isn't one, but it's all she deserves
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"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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I was thinking of the Richard M. Nixon Memorial Outhouse.
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I would think that would be better named for William Jefferson Clinton.
Or, better yet, the William Jefferson Clinton Memorial Gentleman's Club
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.â€
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I think you're getting it confused with the William Jefferson Clinton Motel.
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“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.â€
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YepOriginally posted by KrazyHorse
He assumes that everybody's as ignorant of others as he is.
I mean, I don't know much about, say Arizona (which probably even has a higher population), and its famous people.
Bangladeshi writers? Nigerian kings? Don't have a clue.
Plus Norway is a small country and my experience is that people abroad generally don't know much about it.CSPAComment
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IIRC, in Warsaw, there's a roundabout named after Charles de Gaulle. It's fairly big, but still it's a goddamn roundabout!CSPAComment
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Nice...Originally posted by Solver
We have one here, too. A medium size shopping center is called "Barons's Center". Barons is one of the most significant Latvians of the past 200 years, and the center is called that because it's located at Barons's street. So we have a significant street called after him, and now also some shopping place there.
I guess the Ibsen parking lot is named so because it's close to Ibsen street. An "Ibsen tunnel" runs under it. And there used to be an "Ibsen Kebab" around the corner from it but I think that place is a Sushi bar now. 
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One of the major thoroughfares near my apartment in Manila is McKinley Blvd., which is a little like Washington DC having a King George III Street...
Edit: And in the spirit of the opening post, my favorite would be the Walt Whitman Mall on Long Island, a decrepit, 60s-style mall built near the site of Whitman's boyhood home. It's hard to think of anything less Whitmanesque than shopping, unless its shopping in a Long Island mall...Last edited by Rufus T. Firefly; January 8, 2006, 22:44."I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George CarlinComment
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You're right on the money, Gangerolf. Actually, the significance of the building isn't that important to me, but sometimes, these prosaic buildings get named after people.
The "Yitshak Rabin" Powerplant. Or the Interchange.
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