Suburbia: Where they name the roads after the trees that used to be there.
The Flight 93 Memorial as originally proposed. The design didn’t bother me any, but apparently some thought it was inappropriate.
If you don’t like this, isn’t naming diseases after people worse? Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Lou Gehrig disease…
Liberation of Tibet? I thought people were still asking for its liberation?
Now I’m thinking Cracked needs a “Insensitive Memorials” photoshop contest.
It refers to China’s liberation of the Tibetanese people from themselves in 1950.
Oh, James Lileks, you are a hoot.
None of the planes involved in 9/11 were 747s.
UA Flight 175 was a Boeing 767-200
AA Flight 11 was a Boeing 767-223
AA Flight 77 was a Boeing 757-223
UA Flight 93 was a Boeing 757-222
Two Swedish race drivers died in 1978; Ronnie Peterson in a car crash and Gunnar Nilsson of cancer. After Peterson’s death fans started a foundation in his name with the intent to promote go-kart racing among young people. I, personally, find this equivalent with the foundation in Nilsson’s name, that his mother started, promoting cancer instead of fighting it.
Interesting that the depiction of the aircraft seems to be based on a 737, not the 707 that it really was.
I see the same crosses along railway lines where people were killed; presumably either crossing the line at the wrong time, trespassing, or committing suicide. The thing is, engineers of trains are usually trained for a particular route or group of routes, not to mention that a lot of these are on commuter lines where the same crews operate several times a day over the same few dozen miles. Thus, there’s a good chance that the engineer who was operating the train that killed the person memorialized by the tacky styrofoam cross – who by all accounts I’ve read was applying the emergency brake hard with one hand, sounding the horn madly with the other, and praying fervently to whatever god they believe in that the person would get off the tracks in time – passes that cross frequently, if not several times every day. :eek: Talk about rubbing salt in a wound. :rolleyes:
And that, my friends, is an insensitive memorial.
Ninoy Aquino’s memorial at Manila airport is a bronzed image of the chalk outline of his slain body on the tarmac!
I was looking for a Jane Mansfield Memorial Bowling Alley… That would fit the OP requirements…
In MA rotaries have names associated with them like ‘John Smith Memorial Rotary’ As our rotaries are frequently a source of driver frustrations and traffic jams I always wonder what someone would have to do wrong in life to get a rotary named after them.
Maybe they were president of the local Rotary Club.
I’m assuming “rotaries” are what we in Minnesota call “roundabouts?”
Something really bad.
“What goes around comes around.”
Well, how do we think Mother Cabrini would feel having 1 of he worst housing projex in America named after her? For that matter, to paraphrase Chris Rock, ‘…I don’t care if you’re Black or White - in any big urban city, if you find yourself on Martin Luther King Boulevard - just RUN away’.
Sweden? :rolleyes:
Well, the part of my quote you changed is the important part. It’s not a tasteful plaque -it’s a freakin’ X like on a pirate treasure map. Should I walk 5 paces and start digging?
Especially since he specified that it should be a good-looking corpse.