evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus) (08/19/85)
To go along with the discussions on odd school and town names, I offer
street names, both real and fictitious. I always wanted to name roads.
I would want a North Scholar Road and a South Scholar Road. That way
I could have the Roads Scholar.
Then there would Island Road. Might be nice in, say, Providence.
Great Circle? People's Court? Stupid People's Court?
My Way? Yellow Brick Road?
Ideas? Suggestions? Nausea?
--Evan Marcus
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You know what I hate more than anything? Indian givers. No, I take that back.allen@bunker.UUCP (C. Allen Grabert) (08/22/85)
> To go along with the discussions on odd school and town names, I offer > street names, both real and fictitious. I always wanted to name roads. > > Ideas? Suggestions? Nausea? > > --Evan Marcus In Stratford, CT. there is "North Parade". As far as I know, there is no other "_____ Parade" in Stratford. I have NO idea where the street got its name. -- Back on the freeway, which is already in progress, Allen Grabert (...ittatc!bunker!allen)
crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin) (08/22/85)
In article <441@petfe.UUCP> evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus) writes: >To go along with the discussions on odd school and town names, I offer >street names, both real and fictitious. I always wanted to name roads. > >I would want a North Scholar Road and a South Scholar Road. That way >I could have the Roads Scholar. > >Then there would Island Road. Might be nice in, say, Providence. > >Great Circle? People's Court? Stupid People's Court? >My Way? Yellow Brick Road? > >Ideas? Suggestions? Nausea? > >--Evan Marcus >-- When I used to work as a civil engineering draughtsman, (I prefer that spelling 'cause when they told me what they wanted, I'd draught). Once we ran out of names for the streets in a subdivision we were planning, and the Front Office souldn't help us, so we used our own names. I wish I'd have thought of some of the others. -- Charlie Martin (...mcnc!duke!crm)
bobhic@aluxe.UUCP (ADOLT) (08/22/85)
> To go along with the discussions on odd school and town names, I offer > street names, both real and fictitious. I always wanted to name roads. > > Ideas? Suggestions? Nausea? > > --Evan Marcus This is for real. The name of the street where I grew-up is Cemetery St. My mother still lives there. It really isn't too bizarre when one considers that it is the street in back of a large cemetery. However, this Cemetery St. has two dead-ends!!! The only way on or off is by way of the two streets bounding the sides of the cemetery perpendicular to Cemetery Street. Once in a while the city fathers try to change the name of this street but the 20 or so families who live there always file a petition against it. They all 'like' the name. Anyone else ever live on a Cemetery St. (with two dead-ends)? ------------------------------------------------------------ Bob (a former 'dead-end' kid) Adolt
riddle@im4u.UUCP (08/23/85)
I'm told that they name streets in Dallas with a computer. I take it that
it's a simple "one from column A and one from column B" approach:
Pheasant Ridge
Crescent Lake
Hidden Valley
Cedar Creek
... ...
They only need the computer because the names sound so (*yawn*) alike after
awhile that humans can't tell them apart to cull duplicates.
And then there's a large subdivision in Ft. Worth that has such generic
names, with the added perversion that they all start with "W". Any
outsiders unfortunate enough to try to find an address there are hopelessly
lost within seconds ("you are in a subdivision of twisty little streets, all
alike...").
--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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--- riddle@ut-sally.ARPA, riddle%zotz@ut-sally, riddle%im4u@ut-sallyfred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder) (08/24/85)
> In article <441@petfe.UUCP> evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus) writes: > To go along with the discussions on odd school and town names, I offer > street names, both real and fictitious. I always wanted to name roads. > > I would want a North Scholar Road and a South Scholar Road. That way > I could have the Roads Scholar. > > Then there would Island Road. Might be nice in, say, Providence. > > Great Circle? People's Court? Stupid People's Court? > My Way? Yellow Brick Road? > > Ideas? Suggestions? Nausea? In Baltimore County there already is ``Yellow Brick Road''. There's also ``Labyrinth Road'' which is accurately named. If I ever get to name the streets of a neighborhood I'd name them after composers. That way I could have the intersection of Gilbert and Sullivan. Beethoven would be a short street with only nine houses. -- All characters mentioned herein are fictitious. Any similarity to actual characters, ASCII or EBCDIC is purely coincidental. Fred Blonder (301) 454-7690 Fred@Maryland.{ARPA,CSNet} harpo!seismo!umcp-cs!fred
wjr@x.UUCP (Bill Richard) (08/26/85)
In article <282@gymble.UUCP> fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder) writes: > >In Baltimore County there already is ``Yellow Brick Road''. There's also >``Labyrinth Road'' which is accurately named. > > Fred Blonder (301) 454-7690 In Baltimore City, there is a housing development, Armistead Gardens, which my parents tell me originally housed workers at the Martin plant. Which explains the street names. The major street is Wright Avenue, which is crossed by Wilbur and Orville Avenues. I wish I could remember the rest of the street names, because you may not know who Selfridge is either, but every street name I looked up was an early aviation celeb. Anyone have a Balto. map? AG is tucked between Herring Run and the harbor tunnel entrance. STella Calvert Disclaimer: CRDS did not name the streets, wjr didn't either! They made it possible for me to post this, but I made it necessary for you to "n" it. -- ---- William J. Richard @ Charles River Data Systems 983 Concord St. Framingham, MA 01701 Tel: (617) 626-1112 uucp: ...!decvax!frog!wjr
pumphrey@ttidcb.UUCP (Larry Pumphrey) (08/26/85)
Intersecting California state highway 46 near Lost Hills (site of recent African killer bee find) is Brown Material Road --- yes, it's in the middle of an open livestock range! -Larry
lee@rochester.UUCP (Lee Moore) (08/27/85)
Talk about bizarre street corners... in Roslyn, Va.
Lee Highway and Moore St. meet to form an intersection.
(At least it seemed bizarre to me.)
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Physical: 43 01' 40'' N, 77 37' 49'' Wjudith@proper.UUCP (Judith Abrahms) (08/27/85)
In article <> crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin) writes: >When I used to work as a civil engineering draughtsman, (I prefer that >spelling 'cause when they told me what they wanted, I'd draught). Once >we ran out of names for the streets in a subdivision we were planning, >and the Front Office souldn't help us, so we used our own names. I >wish I'd have thought of some of the others. How about it, gang? Is this or is it not a frontrunner for the LEAST BIZARRE POST AWARD? Keep that e-mail coming in! Judith Abrahms {ucbvax,ihnp4}!dual!proper!judith
judith@proper.UUCP (Judith Abrahms) (08/27/85)
In article <> bobhic@aluxe.UUCP (ADOLT) writes: > >This is for real. >The name of the street where I grew-up is Cemetery St. >My mother still lives there. It really isn't too bizarre >when one considers that it is the street in back of a large >cemetery... You may have already won one of many valuable prizes in our LEAST BIZARRE POST COMPETITION! We're still deciding whether you gain or lose points for including the remark that your post isn't too bizarre.
wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (08/27/85)
I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned Atlanta in this continuing digression... It seems that every street in that city is named "Peachtree". I recall standing at or riding a bus by the intersection of Peachtree, Peachtree, and Peachtree...(for real) They do add different titles on the end -- Lane, Street, Avenue, etc.; also, I think there are "Old" and "New" and "North", etc., prepended to some of them... Will
djw@imsvax.UUCP (Donald Whytock) (08/27/85)
...And here in McLean, Va., we have a subdivision called McLean Hamlet. Every street is named after some principal point in a Shakespeare play. For the MacBeth fans out there, there is a Burnham Wood Road, which, if followed, goes to Dunsanine Court... Don Whytock ...!elsie!imsvax!djw "Your score is -200 out of a possible 400. This gives you the rank of Menace to Society."
fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder) (08/28/85)
> From: lee@rochester.UUCP (Lee Moore) > Newsgroups: net.bizarre > Subject: Re: Naming streets > > Talk about bizarre street corners... in Roslyn, Va. > Lee Highway and Moore St. meet to form an intersection. > > (At least it seemed bizarre to me.) Well, Lee's a pretty bizarre person, so it's only fitting that a street corner named after him would be bizarre too. -- All characters mentioned herein are fictitious. Any similarity to actual characters, ASCII or EBCDIC is purely coincidental. Fred Blonder (301) 454-7690 Fred@Maryland.{ARPA,CSNet} harpo!seismo!umcp-cs!fred
crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell) (08/31/85)
One of my favorite street names (found in North Austin) is
``Cavileer''. I haven't yet gotten quite curious enough to
research its origin (it's probably something infuriatingly
prosaic like an accidental misspelling of ``cavilier'', or
maybe ``caviller''), but I can't help wondering.
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Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin
{ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!crandellcrandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell) (08/31/85)
> > I would want a North Scholar Road and a South Scholar Road. That way > > I could have the Roads Scholar. > >If I ever get to name the streets of a neighborhood I'd name them after >composers. That way I could have the intersection of Gilbert and Sullivan. >Beethoven would be a short street with only nine houses. Actually, quite a bit of inanity is possible even in the absence of the authority to determine formal street names. For example, at certain times of year here (start of the Fall semester is usually good) there is a minor rash of automobile accidents on city streets and nearby roads. Some of these are so severe (and the condition of the participating vehicles so decrepit) that major body parts remain scattered on the pavement. One can harvest a genuine bumper crop during these times. If, for example, entire fenders of cars wind up gracing two or more different thoroughfares, then we have, uh.... Once several years ago, I was driving down Twelfth St. in Oak Cliff (Dallas) and discovered a tattered old swatch of flannel (I think) lying in the middle of the pavement. I called it -- well, you get the idea. I've often regretted that Austin's Hardy St. doesn't extend far enough to the south to intersect Laurel Ln. In there somewhere is a job idea for some enterprising individual with a screwdriver and a camera. -- Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!crandell
evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus) (09/03/85)
In <950@bunker.UUCP> Jim Crandell writes: > One of my favorite street names (found in North Austin) is > ``Cavileer''. I haven't yet gotten quite curious enough to > research its origin (it's probably something infuriatingly > prosaic like an accidental misspelling of ``cavilier'', or > maybe ``caviller''), but I can't help wondering. > -- > Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin > {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!crandell I often wonder about the derivation of words like cavilier or maybe caviller. Perhaps the derivation is something infuriatingly prosaic like an accidental misspelling of 'cavalier' or something. But I can't help wondering. --Evan Marcus -- {ucbvax|decvax}!vax135!petsd!petfe!evan ...!pedsgd!pedsga!evan So what if it's dangerous...as long as it's fun.
nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather) (09/05/85)
> In <950@bunker.UUCP> Jim Crandell writes: > > One of my favorite street names (found in North Austin) is > > ``Cavileer''... > > -- > > Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin > > I often wonder about the derivation of words like cavilier or maybe caviller. > Perhaps the derivation is something infuriatingly prosaic like an accidental > misspelling of 'cavalier' or something. But I can't help wondering. > --Evan Marcus > -- In Austin, the lovely Spanish name "Guadalupe" is pronounced Gwad-a-loop. Also, Manchaca (maan-haaka in Spanish) is rendered as Man-chack. Don't count on distortions needing exotic explanation. -- Ed Nather Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin {allegra,ihnp4}!{noao,ut-sally}!utastro!nather nather@astro.UTEXAS.EDU
mikel@bmcg.UUCP (Mike Lesher) (09/09/85)
Insane Diego there is a street named "Haveityour Way", Chula Vista has "Itsinda Street".
jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) (09/11/85)
> Perhaps the derivation is something infuriatingly prosaic like an accidental > misspelling of 'cavalier' or something. But I can't help wondering. Near the place in rural Georgia where I grew up, there was a small subdivision called "Mitsy Forest". I've always wondered if that was the result of a typist making an error on a legal document or something... -- Shyy-Anzr: J. Eric Roskos UUCP: Ofc: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jer Home: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jerpc!jer US Mail: MS 795; Perkin-Elmer SDC; 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642 "Nalgvzr gbzbeebj, gur cubar'yy evat, naq lbh'yy or ba lbhe jnl. Onpx ubzr va Buvb, gurl jba'g oryvrir lbh..."
showard@udenva.UUCP (showard) (09/14/85)
> In <950@bunker.UUCP> Jim Crandell writes: > > One of my favorite street names (found in North Austin) is > > ``Cavileer''. I haven't yet gotten quite curious enough to > > research its origin (it's probably something infuriatingly > > prosaic like an accidental misspelling of ``cavilier'', or > > maybe ``caviller''), but I can't help wondering. > > -- > > Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin > > {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!crandell > > I often wonder about the derivation of words like cavilier or maybe caviller. > Perhaps the derivation is something infuriatingly prosaic like an accidental > misspelling of 'cavalier' or something. But I can't help wondering. > > --Evan Marcus > -- > {ucbvax|decvax}!vax135!petsd!petfe!evan > Cavalier? Isn't that some kind of weird fish eggs or something? --Mr. Blore, the DJ who would not die --.udenva!showard