Posted on 07/28/2018 8:44:34 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Yes....but without him we wouldn't have Black Jack Gum.
Illinois is the French spelling for the Illinois and Peoria Indian word “iliniwok,” meaning men or warriors and perhaps refering to members of the Illinois tribe. It is highly offensive to Indians. It also celebrates martial arts and warfare. It should be changed.
How about Bamanois? Has a nice ring to it.
The state of West Virginia would collapse.
Streety McStreet Face Street
“Moscow on the Brazos” is a nickname that Austin’s had since the late 60s.
Raw dollars for swapping street signs, perhaps, but there's a cost to informing individuals, businesses, and agencies of the change so they can update their databases.
George Washington owned slaves you know.
A certain state of the union, and a certain city not in that state take note.
I have a friend named Austin. I’m gonna have some fun with this!
My vote is for either…
Idiocracy, TX
or…
Office Space, TX
Yeah, I’m pulling my punches!
I had considered Obamagrad or Obamabad.
“Moscow on the Brazos” is a nickname that Austin’s had since the late 60s.
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That would show the stupidity of anyone who said that.
Waco TX is on the Brazos River.
Austin TX is on the Colorado River.
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The ‘cost of the street signs’ isn’t the only cost.
EVERY single resident will have to change all their paperwork-—checkbooks—deeds—mortgages—auto registrations—animal registrations—listings with security companies—all fire dept info must change—all police info must change-—GPS info must change.
It ain’t that simple, people !!!
Stalin and Mao would be proud. Erase American history.
What’s next? Attack Lincoln for being a racist. I guarantee this is happening.
one sure way to accelerate the prospects of a Civil War is to erase the history and memory of the previous
Unlike Sodom, there may be fifty or more good people there.
I wouldn’t do that to them.
The cost to businesses is HUGE. Update all of your printed and online materials, all of your stationary, notify all of your suppliers and customers, your banks, your attorneys, notify tax and legal agencies. You have to pull out every contract and read the “Notifications” clause for who to notify. For a large business, it takes hundreds of man-hours at an average cost of $100/hour — tens of thousands of dollars, maybe up to $100,000. Few companies are so well organized that they can easily notify all the affected parties — it takes LOTS of manual work.
Swapping out street signs is the trivial part.
(They dropped the idea, however, when they discovered that the city name of "Needles, California" was already taken.)
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