I worked at an insurance company and we had a customer named Ada Dick. Everybody, everywhere, should name everything after her always. Linda: Where are you off to this weekend? Brian: I have a meeting in Boston. I have to take the Ada Dick Memorial highway all the way up to the Ada Dick International airport. Ugh..... and when I get to Boston I'm going to have to get a rental at Ada Dick Auto. Linda: I'm sorry Brian. That sounds like a clusterfuck. Why do you have to head up to Boston? Brian: Some guy is going to pay me $800 dollars to eat his dick..... look....i need the money Linda. Linda: At least the entire world will make sense to you after you've done it. The.. um... dick eating thing. Brian: Make sense?! More like mocking me everywhere I go. Linda: Look... um... I gotta go Brian. You want to get lunch with me when you get back? If you are still hungry after eating all of that di..... Brian: Eat a dick Linda.
I just started typing and that just kind of splooged out of me. Ada Dick was a real insurance customer of mine though.
I'm sure if had nothing to do with guilt and was more of a fear that people would take it literally and lynch them. "The sign said to lynch baptists..."
Me personally, I knew the moment I heard the name of the church, before I even began attending. It was the first thing I thought when I found it. And while I knew the name was simply referencing the neighborhood, it didn't change the obvious alternative connotation. As for the leadership who made the recommendation to the church shortly after we joined, I couldn't say.
Tbh there is a line that goes too far in changing things because someone got their feelings hurt. I can't say i'm bothered by them wanting to change the name. Doesn't affect me and it's whatevs. The kids and schools stopped calling them by Lynch whatever awhile ago. They started just calling it Meadows or Wood or whatever. I find it interesting at all the outrage people are having.
Ah! I see it now. This is the sort of thing that I usually have to defer to other people more in tune with this feeling thing. It took both of you to get me on board.
Because things like this seem to be getting worse and worse. And frankly, I find it extremely disrespectful to the family that donated the land in the first place.
If I die owning a significant piece of land, I'm going to donate it on the condition that the park be permanently named something awful, like "White Trash Acres". barfo
While that was very nice of them and I get it, the schools today aren't even on the land donated by the family. I believe that land is where the dairy queen is on 174th and division.
Some real historical sports names: Lucius Pusey - Football player for Eastern Illinois University Chubby Cox - Basketball Villanova, Chicago Bulls and Washington Bullets Dick Trickle - Race car driver Pete LaCock - Baseball for Cubs and KCR Phyllis Mangina - BB coach Seton Hall Rusty Kuntz - Baseball for Detroit Tigers Some more fun ones: Flo Hyman, Woody Johnson, Wang Manli and Ivana Mandic. Hope they aren't philanthropists.
I had to watch NASCAR when I was younger with my dad. I hated it, but I always rooted for Dick Trickle, just for the name. There is also male organist Dick Hyman. I have a couple of his records.
So if John Lynch of the Broncos and now the Niners donated millions of dollars on the condition that the school be named after him... they should say no?
Case by case basis bruh. People of color are being pushed out to gresham, and the kids have chosen to not even use the Lynch name. They already changed one school to Centennial Middle School and I don't remember an outrage of this magnitude. Times change, people change, it happens. Not saying I don't think it's a little much myself, but I'm also not affected by the school changing the name and literally could not care any less. A last name is just a last name. So John Lynch should totally donate money and ask for that. But he should also be open to other's if they find it offensive and take that into consideration.