Naming insignificant buildings after significant people

[Gangerolf]

This is a pet peeve of mine. Maybe you have similar examples from where you live?

Not very far from where I live there are two public parking garages: the "Henrik Ibsen" and the "St. Olav".

(Now you foreigners probably haven't heard about these people, but I can assure you that these are among the greatest Norwegians ever. Ibsen was a writer and Olav (or Olaf), was a king who also became a saint (his beard and nails kept growing after he died or something along those lines. and a blind guy rubbed his eyes with the kings blood and got his eye-sight back).)

Anyhoo, churches, schools, libraries, streets etc = OK. Fricking parking lots = not so OK.

[Gangerolf]

Ships, also OK (depends on teh size)

[KrazyHorse]

I'm going to buy a rowboat and name it the SS Jesus Caesar Napoleon Churchill Washington

[Richelieu]

Your avatar makes it impossible for me to take anything you say seriously.

[KrazyHorse]

DON'T INSULT THE SHANIA WEARING MAURICE RICHARD TRIBUTE AVATAR

[Richelieu]

I was talking to the other guy. Shania can wear anything and i'll still worship every inch of her.

[KrazyHorse]

I know. I was just having fun.

[Dauphin]

My secondary school was named after St Olaf.

[DanS]

Ronald Reagan World Trade Center. The most expensive office building in DC. $1.2 billion+.

[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.

[Winston]

Originally posted by DanS
Ronald Reagan World Trade Center. The most expensive office building in DC. $1.2 billion+.

I went to see that! What a huge disappointment it was.

Although I did get a few chuckles from hearing the anecdote that it was named after Reagan precisely because it went so insanely over-budget.

"International", wasn't it?

[Asher]

Originally posted by DanS
Ronald Reagan World Trade Center. The most expensive office building in DC. $1.2 billion+.

That's the opposite of what he's talking about.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by DanS
Ronald Reagan World Trade Center. The most expensive office building in DC. $1.2 billion+.

Wrong way around. That's a significant building named after an insignificant person.

[Asher]

[JohnT]

Re: Naming insignificant buildings after significant people

Originally posted by Gangerolf
This is a pet peeve of mine. Maybe you have similar examples from where you live?

Not very far from where I live there are two public parking garages: the "Henrik Ibsen" and the "St. Olav".

(Now you foreigners probably haven't heard about these people, but I can assure you that these are among the greatest Norwegians ever. Ibsen was a writer and Olav (or Olaf), was a king who also became a saint (his beard and nails kept growing after he died or something along those lines. and a blind guy rubbed his eyes with the kings blood and got his eye-sight back).)

Anyhoo, churches, schools, libraries, streets etc = OK. Fricking parking lots = not so OK.

What makes you think we wouldn't know that?