OT If your last name could be construed negatively - don't donate land

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  1. theprunetang

    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    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.
     
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  2. riverman

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    you can easily sell this joke to Louis CK!!!!
     
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  3. theprunetang

    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    I just started typing and that just kind of splooged out of me.

    Ada Dick was a real insurance customer of mine though.
     
  4. santeesioux

    santeesioux Just keep on scrolling by

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    They should change the name of the Minnesota Vikings because it's offensive to my Swedish ancestors.
     
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  5. SlyPokerDog

    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    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..."
     
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    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    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.
     
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    I would totally join a church that said to lynch barfos.
     
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    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.
     
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    They all do, they all do.

    barfo
     
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    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.
     
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    Get er done! I'm in!
     
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  12. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    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.
     
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    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
     
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    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.
     
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    You mean the Lynch Queen?

    barfo
     
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    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.
     
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  17. theprunetang

    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    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.
     
  18. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    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?
     
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    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.
     
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