" Three Parasites Apartments"

The BBQ Pit
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How’s this for a really dumb-assed aparment complex name?

Pinhook Flats! The first time I read about them, I thought not of luxury, but of pinworms and hookworms. Then the wife pointed out that there’s also a flatworm.

We couldn’t believe that somebody actually got paid to come up with a name that evokes such negative images.

Not to mention that people in the market for high-priced digs, and most of us lesser beings, too, like names that evoke some sort of intersesting view: “Heights”,“Summit”, “Lake View”,“Val Verde”, “Golden Valley”, stuff like that.

“Flats” implies dull.

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I always laugh when I see names involving Coventry. Like, “Coventry Heights” or “Coventry Estates” or whatever.

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Kia’s Sportage which pops the word Spoilage immediately into my head.

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Actially, pinhook doesn’t mean that in my mind - it was always used by country people to describe petty speculators who would try to buy cattle before auction. People would sometimes be desperate enough to sell them a few head - and get ripped off on the price.

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My last apartment was at “The Resort at Lake Crossing.” The street address was “Shoreside Drive.” It was in the middle of Lexington, KY. Nice place - certainly not a resort, and the reservoir a mile down the road was not a lake by a long stretch.

Friend of mine use to live in Sugarbush Apartments. Hehe. Sugarbush.

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They built a good-looking building in Islington for use as apartments for ‘active’ seniors. The new small street out front where the main entrance is? Summerland Terrace. Oops.

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My grandmother used to live in a rather ugly apartment complex.

It was called Aqua Porta Apartments.

The only image that invoked was one of porta potties…

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I once saw an apartment complex named “Vista View.”

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My theory has always been that these places are named after the most prominent ecological feature that was destroyed in its construction.

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Eh, could have just been a fluke.

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I don’t get it…:confused:

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There’s a borough in London called Shepherd’s Bush which hasn’t seen a shepherd or even a bush in a thousand years or more.

And I live in a subdivision called Alafaya Woods, which is indeed built over the woods that used to line Alafaya (Trail).

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“The Summerland” is another name for Heaven.

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I know of one called The Chardonnay that has a huge 3-D sandblasted sign featuring purple grapes.

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I used to do accounting for a pool construction company, and in our records, every pool was named for the project it was part of. We did mostly commercial stuff. I know it’s not polite, but the only term I can think of for the way people name condos and housing developments these days is fucking retarded. The big trend out here is The Something At Something, where both Somethings are completely made up and meaningless.

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I once posted about a development named Aspen Ridge where, after the trees were removed and the ground levelled for construction, there were no longer any aspens or ridges.

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'Round here, most of the places seem to be named something like, “Whispering Pines Forest Ridge Park Village Landing”, or some variation thereof.

Up around Conroe, there’s some heavily-advertised development called Bentwater. How the hell do you bend water in the first place?

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Sugarbush is the term for a stand of maples used for collecting sap to make syrup. Still funny, though.

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I was driving down Overland Avenue in Palms (a part of L.A.), and I could swear I passed a dingbat style apartment house that was supposed to be named the Capri. Only, someone must have gotten mixed up when they did the signage, because it said “Crapi”, in that modish cursive style that you see from the 1950s and early 1960s.

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