Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Ha'penny Bridge to be renamed?

  • 01-04-2011 2:25am
    #1
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭


    Has to be an April Fools gag .. :eek:

    Source


Comments

  • #2
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    :rolleyes:


  • #3
    Colilfc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 443 ✭✭Colilfc


    Yeah, next they will be charging half a penny to get over it. :rolleyes:


  • #4
    Oh_Noes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭Oh_Noes


    Strange how this is the subject of an April fool joke after it actually happened with Lansdowne Road and no-one batted an eyelid.


  • #5
    whiteboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭whiteboy


    This bridge sounds like it should be destroyed


  • #6
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,760 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    "Page no longer exists" - looks like someone got them!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Advertisement
  • #7
    Sharpshooter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Has to be an April Fools gag .. :eek:

    Source

    Don't you have a forum to mod go to.:pac:


  • #8
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    penny lane is safe though xD


  • #9
    randylonghorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    Oh_Noes wrote: »
    Strange how this is the subject of an April fool joke after it actually happened with Lansdowne Road and no-one batted an eyelid.
    Hmmmm??


  • #10
    Balfie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,137 ✭✭✭Balfie


    Its a kick in the face when ya go to all that hard work and then someone like me has AdBlock+ for Firefox, and I never get adverts, although your "Source" had adverts,...

    Sorry to shit on your parade .. :D



    :pac:


  • #11
    XxMCRxBabyxX
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,441 Mod ✭✭✭✭XxMCRxBabyxX


    Clearly an April Fools.

    And this is nothing even like the Lansdowne Name Change?!


  • Advertisement
  • #12
    upandcumming
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,718 ✭✭✭upandcumming


    Oh_Noes wrote: »
    Strange how this is the subject of an April fool joke after it actually happened with Lansdowne Road and no-one batted an eyelid.

    Ugh...


  • #13
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    Michael Lowry is innocent as well.


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Whatever happened to them wanting to rename Dublin Airport?

    They wanted to name it after someone. It was a retarded idea (and it still is), but it seemed like it was definitely gonna happen, and then the story just kinda fizzled out..?


  • #15
    Oh_Noes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭Oh_Noes


    randylonghorn wrote: »
    Hmmmm??

    Meh.

    April Fools jokes remind me of office jokers with spinning bowties.


  • #16
    randylonghorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    People who get all bent out of shape about them remind me of this guy.


  • #17
    Coriolanus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    Lansdowne rd is still there. I walked down it on the way to the aviva stadium last week? :confused:


  • #18
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Clicks on link. Realises that this is at the end of the address when I can't click on any hotlink within the page ("html.yolasite.com"). Facepalms.

    Newbs. ;)


  • #19
    Ectoplasm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭Ectoplasm


    Gotta love the part where the apostrophe stays in the proposed 'new name' :D


  • #20
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    Oh_Noes wrote: »
    Strange how this is the subject of an April fool joke after it actually happened with Lansdowne Road and no-one batted an eyelid.

    Landsdowne Road wasn't named after money though...


  • #21
    az2wp0sye65487
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭az2wp0sye65487


    Oh_Noes wrote: »
    Strange how this is the subject of an April fool joke after it actually happened with Lansdowne Road and no-one batted an eyelid.

    What was Lansdowne Road previously known as??


  • Advertisement
  • #22
    Luxie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 716 ✭✭✭Luxie


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Has to be an April Fools gag .. :eek:

    Source

    Claiming Penneys is renaming itself 'Cents' is a bit of a giveaway, non?


  • #23
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Time to change it to The Philo Bridge... :)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9n7EstQI5o


  • #24
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    DrumSteve wrote: »
    Landsdowne Road wasn't named after money though...

    No it was renamed for money.


  • #25
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    from wikipedia
    The Ha'penny Bridge ... officially the Liffey Bridge


  • #26
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,647 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Whatever happened to them wanting to rename Dublin Airport?

    They wanted to name it after someone. It was a retarded idea (and it still is), but it seemed like it was definitely gonna happen, and then the story just kinda fizzled out..?

    Happy to say it died out.

    I'm not adverse to the idea of naming the airport after someone, but the list of candidates they were looking at was ridiculous. "Welcome to Dublin's Cu Chulainn International" (Complete with a logo involving a lad hacking away at the enemy with a broadsword) is a hell of a lot more impressive than "Welcome to Dublin's John Sullivan International." I could go with the former.

    There is precedent. I landed at "Manas" airport in Kyrgyzstan.

    NTM


Advertisement