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Alternative Street Names

  • 21-02-2017 11:42PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 521 ✭✭✭


    Where I live we take our street names very seriously. One name attracting the ire of the locals is the infamous Victoria Street. So I have been doing my civic duty devoting much mental energy to come up with a suitable replacement, A substantial leaders name would be appropriate here and for a while I thought something like 'Ahern Avenue', 'Berties Boulevard', 'Haughey Heights', or 'Charlie's Way' would do.

    But it occurred to me that merely replacing one reviled name with another is not going to work. We need a name with a message. My first choice 'Kenny Crescent' with it's suggested U turn might have done the job but now I think I have an even better name that will appeal to all age groups while still telling a story. Ladies and gentlemen I give you :-- 'Enda the Road'

    Now I know that in a short while we will all be thinking 'Leo's Lane' but with the way things are 'Varadkar Park' might be more accurate.
    I welcome your (polite) suggestions.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,216 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Shop St - Rip Off St

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 521 ✭✭✭mbur


    Not bad, better than my next idea 'Streaty McStreetface Street


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    mbur wrote: »
    ... I thought something like 'Ahern Avenue', 'Berties Boulevard', 'Haughey Heights', or 'Charlie's Way' would do.
    .

    I thought there are all slang for buggery - e.g. "he takes it up Bertie's Boulevard" - on the basis that they're all assholes and full of ****...?

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24 MARTINOZ


    Dick Spring Alley


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    M50 Ming Road?

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



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 475 ✭✭jimmy blevins


    Victoria boulevard


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 696 ✭✭✭Noddyholder


    Sesame street.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Those English/British names should remain to remind us of who built the bladdy things in the first place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 521 ✭✭✭mbur


    KungPao wrote: »
    Those English/British names should remain to remind us of who built the bladdy things in the first place.
    Nice, except that the named persons usually have nothing to do with the building of said roads.

    The six phases of a project:

    1 Enthusiasm

    2 Disillusionment

    3 Disaster

    4 Search for the guilty

    5 Punishment of the innocent

    6 Praise and honours for the non-participants


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,775 ✭✭✭LeBash


    MARTINOZ wrote: »
    Dick Spring Alley

    Dick Spring Rise would have been better


  • Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    MARTINOZ wrote: »
    Dick Spring Alley
    LeBash wrote: »
    Dick Spring Rise would have been better

    Dick Spring Roll


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 272 ✭✭Stars and Stripes


    mbur wrote: »
    Where I live we take our street names very seriously. One name attracting the ire of the locals is the infamous Victoria Street. So I have been doing my civic duty devoting much mental energy to come up with a suitable replacement, A substantial leaders name would be appropriate here and for a while I thought something like 'Ahern Avenue', 'Berties Boulevard', 'Haughey Heights', or 'Charlie's Way' would do.

    But it occurred to me that merely replacing one reviled name with another is not going to work. We need a name with a message. My first choice 'Kenny Crescent' with it's suggested U turn might have done the job but now I think I have an even better name that will appeal to all age groups while still telling a story. Ladies and gentlemen I give you :-- 'Enda the Road'

    Now I know that in a short while we will all be thinking 'Leo's Lane' but with the way things are 'Varadkar Park' might be more accurate.
    I welcome your (polite) suggestions.
    They could rename it after a Cork person worthy of it from history such as Terence or Mary McSwiney or sport such as Dr. Pat O'Callaghan twice Olympic gold medal winner or author Frank O'Connor etc These and other Cork people would be more worthy of naming a street in their honor than over weight English shytebag.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Always felt Main St. a bit harsh. Dacent St. is kinder.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,241 ✭✭✭RiderOnTheStorm


    How about....
    Cork St (to keep it really real)
    Lapwing Lane (after Irelands national bird)
    Crom Cruach Road (for a mythological angle)
    Nefertiti Close (just cause, y'know... Titi... lol)

    Maybe not name it after a person...
    Easy St
    Bluebell Rd
    Ride Rd

    Or take a literature angle....
    Rivendell Rd
    Wormwood St
    Elysium Fields


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