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> The solution is simple. Continue calling the boat Boaty McBoatface. Ignore all references to the government's preferred name. This is good advice. In Toront
by chollida1 11y ago
> The solution is simple. Continue calling the boat Boaty McBoatface. Ignore all references to the government's preferred name.
This is good advice. In Toronto we have a baseball stadium called the Rogers Center (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Centre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Centre). It was originally called the SkyDome but it was bought by a company called Rogers and renamed.
Everyone still refers to it as the Skydome. Corporate branding be damned:)
- theseatoms 11y agoLikewise in Chicago, the Sears Tower is now technically the Willis Tower.
- _asummers 11y agoIt got bought again, though I don't know if the newest buyers plan on changing the name again.
- gryphonshafer 11y agoThis happens with airports a lot. Some really wonderful and generous old pilot or aviation engineer dies, so the field gets renamed in honor of the person. But aviators still refer to the field by it's traditional name. It's not a slight against the honored dead; rather, it's just out of habit and the fact that it's tremendously easier to remember "$CITY_NAME Airport" than it is "$GUY_WHO_DIED Field".
- AdmiralAsshat 11y agoSpeaking of airports, I know of several people who outright refuse to refer to Washington National Airport by its current name, "Ronald Regan Washington National Airport". They will go so far as to correct someone who says "Regan National" and insist, "Washington National."
- HoopleHead 11y agoWell, given the guy's name was "Reagan", it does warrant some kind of correction.
- DonHopkins 11y agoYou mean it's not named after Reagan's chief of staff?
- scurvy 11y agoWould these people happen to be air traffic controllers? Also, most people in DC just call it National. Probably because the other airport also has a one word name (Dulles).
- tosseraccount 11y agoSome people call it just "Reagan". Which airport, "Reagan", "Dulles" or "BWI" ? They don't say "Marshall" for BWI, though.
- treehau5 11y agoWhen I was there I called it "The Expensive one", "The One No one Goes to", and "The cheaper one"
- imgabe 11y agoSome people in DC are still annoyed by the renaming, partly because of the air controller thing, and partly because Congress changed the name against the wishes of the people of DC and then forced DC to pay for changing the signs out of the city's budget.
- golemotron 11y agoIf I ran a news organization I'd use the old name on principle but I know what would happen. Companies would start to pay me to use the "proper name." It's the next step after product placement.
- 6stringmerc 11y agoSame with a large ampitheather music venue just next to Dallas, where the State Fair is held: Coca Cola Starplex (original) > Smirnoff Music Center > Superpages.com Center > Gexa Energy Pavilion Not one of the brandings has resulted in any noteworthy facility improvements, interestingly enough /s
- lettergram 11y agoHappened to the largest building in Chicago too, it's supposed to be called "Willis Tower", but I've only ever heard "Sears Tower".
- Grishnakh 11y agoI have a counterexample for this one: in Phoenix, there's an outdoor arena/pavilion that used to be called "Desert Sky Pavilion", a nice non-corporate name referring to the local geography. Well it went through that whole corporate branding crap, and while I was there at least, it seemed like people were calling it "Cricket Pavilion" (which was the current name at the time). Here's what Wikipedia says about the naming: "Ak-Chin Pavilion (formerly known as the Desert Sky Pavilion, Blockbuster Desert Sky Pavilion, Cricket Pavilion, Cricket Wireless Pavilion and Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion) is an amphitheater located in Phoenix, Arizona, which seats 8,000 under a pavilion roof and an additional 12,000 on a hillside behind the main stands." That much renaming is really ridiculous IMO.
- bobwaycott 11y agoThe Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion. I died. Then I wondered why there are so many telco/media stadiums/pavilions/etc., and not more furniture stores in the mix.
- mediocrejoker 11y agoSee also: Science World in Vancouver being rebranded as TELUS World of Science. Nobody calls it anything but Science World.
- kunai 11y agoEven though it's been the Willis Tower for several years now everyone I know still calls it the Sears Tower.
- bryanlarsen 11y agoThe Senator's hockey stadium in Ottawa has been through a few names since it was built in 96: Palladium, Corel Centre, Scotiabank Place, Canadian Tire Centre. In the past few months I have heard all 4 names used for the facility.
- hobbyjogger 11y agoHabit is a powerful thing. It's been nearly a decade since Austin's "Town Lake" was renamed by the city council as "Lady Bird Lake" (in honor of Lady Bird Johnson). To this day, I'm not sure I've ever heard it referred to as anything other than Town Lake. I certainly can never remember to use the new name.
- jonesetc 11y agoUseful for spotting transplants though. (Not meant in a negative sense)
- stordoff 11y agoThis happens a lot. There's a nightclub in Cambridge called Ballare (since 2003), but it is almost exclusively refered to by students as Cindies. There's another club, and I can't even recall what its "real" name is as "The Place" and "Life" were used interchangeably for it.
- tvararu 11y agoLondon's skyline includes buildings affectionately referred to as the gherkin [1], the cheesegrater [2], and the walkie-talkie [3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_St_Mary_Axe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_St_Mary_Axe [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/122_Leadenhall_Street https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/122_Leadenhall_Street [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_Fenchurch_Street https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_Fenchurch_Street