Go down this street
That street?
No, this street
Oh, so you mean the other street?
No! (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
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Who's on first type situation.
Where?
Oops
No! What's on Second!
I don't know!
No, he's on third!
Which would be better? Running out of ideas and going with "this, that, and that other street" or letting the internet name them "Streety McStreetface III"?
I think Canada made the right call, but also, "Streety McStreetface" would be awesome.
I'll be a killjoy and answer sincerely: just number them. 1st Ave, 2nd Ave, 3rd Ave, etc.
I'll be a silly little gremlin and name the people on those streets then.
You've got Who's house on first, What's on second, and I Dunno's on third.
Give it about a year or two and it would just become normalized and dull. It would be funny for a month or two but after that it would be treated no more unusual as any other street name or map label. Even if you have funny names to people's houses, eventually it all just gets normalized.
I'm indigenous Canadian and I speak my ojibway language and when I think about many of the common lakes and rivers and placenames I grew up with they're all just places that translate to mundane things like .... Rock River, Round Lake, Big Falls, Red Lake, Big Water, Muddy Water, Fast Flowing River, Trout River, etc, etc
Round Lake, Big Falls, Red Lake, Big Water
That's how Japan names most of its places as well. Sometimes they're even less creative and start calling things 5th Gate City, or River 10.
And they don't even name their residential roads, so addresses can get long (I think Korea also does this). When you write an address you have to write all the info from the biggest area and gradually narrowing: prefecture, city, ward, neighborhood
Well that's a problem for future us.
Present us can poke fun, have a laugh, and maybe even turn it into an Abbott and Costello joke.
lol ... I love Abbot and Costello ... I watched a lot of the reruns as a kid in the 80s to know who they are. And I definitely remember this classic.
It made me think more about those Native named placenames .... I remember one dad told me a long time ago was 'Ptarmigan guts creek' (it sounds weird and funny in Ojibway) ... another was 'Having Sex' or 'Fucking' Rapids ... for the longest time, I thought these places were a joke and didn't exist. When I repeated them to many other people, they confirmed that this is what they were called.
This Street I, This Street II, This street 95
Re: Re: Fwd: This Street (final) (V2)
That's what we do here in Utah: 100 E, 200 S, etc. If you give me your address, I can find it without knowing anything about the area, though it might take a little longer without directions if there are non-uniform blocks. Also, I can quickly approximate how far another address is since I know how big a block is.
We name a bunch of streets too, but they all have a number name as well, usually written underneath or in the corner.
It works really well.
Why do we always vote for somethingMcSomethingFace when asked to name stuff? It's funny, but i never understood why we do that.
It started with BoatyMcBoatface, as far as I know. The winner for naming what became the Sir David Attenborough.
Iirc Boaty McBoatface actually won. The people holding the contest quickly learned asking the Internet to name your boat is a bad idea. Just like when Taylor Swift did a survey for folks to name where she should have a concert and the vote was overwhelming at a school for dead children.
But to the boat people's credit, they named one of the life boats Boaty McBoatface.
Amazing typo.
Ngl I didn't notice it.
I'm not changing it. It still works.
Took me longer than I care to admit.
Yeah Boaty was the first Noun-y McNoun-face I recall too. I'm pretty sure it was just so absurd (when the other submissions were mostly serious) that it birthed the meme.
Don't know. A bar I used to go to had a hefeweizen called Wheaty McWheatface, which I thought was funny
I would get that beer immediately.
Eh. Notice how all the buildings are long and narrow? It's because it's a trailer park. So, you know, it's tiny. The direcions are gonna be "once ya get to the park, b'y, hangs a left. It's the blue one."
I saw the layout and instantly recognized it for what it was. The trailer park loop is unmistakeable.
But otherwise, man private developers love thematic street names. I got some pirate themed, herb themed, and gemstone themed developments around me. Worked with someone who lived in a house on the corner of Zircon Ct and Zircon St. But not the other corner which was the corner of Zircon St and Zircon Ct. Also a Zircon Ave.
Uranium City, Saskatchewan
It's dumb to reuse the same name but the themed names are useful. In our city we have a few and it's helpful to know what area of the city you're going to even if you don't know the exact street.
Can confirm. Grew up just down the road
That's hilarious. Also, here's the coordinates for y'all.
44.7383848, -63.3054787
It's part of our national defence strategy. Believe it or not, you can contain an invading force just down this street and that street for a surprisingly long time 🇨🇦
Go to Bonnaroo.
That Tent, This Tent, What Stage, Which Stage, The Other Stage.
THANK YOU. It was bugging me trying to think where I had heard this joke used before.
Yooouuu, You got what I neeEEeed
I grew up just a few minutes down the road from there! Had a friend who lived on That street.
I love whenever I see this pop up every few months or lol.
When people get bored of naming things in rural areas of Finland it's always something like cunt valley, ass hill , shit rock, ugly lake, piss river and there are ton of them, with same or similar names repeating.
No wonder you guys are the happiest in the world if this is allowed.
Probably not anymore, but the old names stick in places that nobody cares about.
Just meet me at post office rd, I'll show you where.
Iqualuit has a street named "Road to Nowhere" which is hilarious.
I was looking at the 44° very confused. For reference that would be 110f.
Unable to follow directions.
Unable to have an erection.