tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832668.post112976054860950302..comments2024-03-08T03:35:18.862-05:00Comments on squidpants: Andrew Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14897991196753070172noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832668.post-1129823458517592392005-10-20T11:50:00.000-04:002005-10-20T11:50:00.000-04:00Endowment Boulevard.Pedagogy Parkway.Islamic Studi...Endowment Boulevard.<BR/><BR/>Pedagogy Parkway.<BR/><BR/>Islamic Studies Crescent!<BR/><BR/>Besides, at least the streets have names. If it were up to Trachtenberg, half of Washington would be called, like, "Street G" until they got someone to spend half a million dollars to name it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832668.post-1129818189794046682005-10-20T10:23:00.000-04:002005-10-20T10:23:00.000-04:00edmund, that is the sort of thing I like. my frien...edmund, that is the sort of thing I like. my friend used to live in Bury St Edmunds, and his address was "6 The Street." But yah, if a street is actually a crescent, then fine, but most crescents in subdivisions look no different from lanes or ways or whatevers. And anyway, to me, "lane" is a little thin urban street, not a random suburban thing. Names from "Gone With the Wind," jets, and Andrew Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14897991196753070172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832668.post-1129817372636095142005-10-20T10:09:00.001-04:002005-10-20T10:09:00.001-04:00My office is on a street called "The Parade". It's...My office is on a street called "The Parade". It's a block over from "The Walk", which is shorter.<BR/><BR/>Cardiff's street names are all reasonably traditional; all the "embankments" are next to the river, and all the "crescents" are actual crescents, so that's OK.<BR/><BR/>But something the British have a proclivity for is renaming a street halfway along, just for the hell of it. The main roadAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832668.post-1129817360262881652005-10-20T10:09:00.000-04:002005-10-20T10:09:00.000-04:00all i hear all day at work are lame street names. ...all i hear all day at work are lame street names. <BR/>my last place was on east intruder circle (the entire place was jet names) <BR/>now i live on tuition drive off cum laude street.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3832668.post-1129814248170328922005-10-20T09:17:00.000-04:002005-10-20T09:17:00.000-04:00there was this neighborhood in my town where all t...there was this neighborhood in my town where all the streets were named after Gone With the Wind...so there was Scarlett, Ashley, Tara, Rhett...I used to beg my parents to move there (and I also asked to change my name to Scarlet O'hara)...in other words I had an obsession.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com