# " Three Parasites Apartments" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 11, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767 "2008-12-11T21:05:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zenith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zenith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zenith)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/1 "2008-12-11T21:05:09Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/2 "2008-12-11T21:14:05Z")
I always laugh when I see names involving Coventry. Like, “Coventry Heights” or “Coventry Estates” or whatever. > [@the dictionary](#): > > _noun_ > > 1. the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent); “the association should get rid of its elderly members–not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry” [syn: banishment] ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/3 "2008-12-11T21:16:04Z")
Kia’s **Sportage** which pops the word **Spoilage** immediately into my head. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/4 "2008-12-11T21:25:55Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@Black\_Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/5 "2008-12-11T21:28:50Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/6 "2008-12-11T21:36:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/7 "2008-12-11T21:37:58Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/8 "2008-12-11T21:46:30Z")
I once saw an apartment complex named “Vista View.” ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/9 "2008-12-11T21:49:42Z")
My theory has always been that these places are named after the most prominent ecological feature that was destroyed in its construction. ---
**Author:** ![Pazu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pazu/32/15522_2.png) [@Pazu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pazu)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/10 "2008-12-11T21:50:57Z")
> [@zenith](#): > > 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. Eh, could have just been a fluke. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/11 "2008-12-11T22:02:15Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > 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. I don’t get it…😕 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/12 "2008-12-11T22:12:29Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > My theory has always been that these places are named after the most prominent ecological feature that was destroyed in its construction. 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). ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/13 "2008-12-11T22:22:16Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > I don’t get it…😕 “The Summerland” is another name for Heaven. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/14 "2008-12-11T22:24:15Z")
I know of one called _The Chardonnay_ that has a huge 3-D sandblasted sign featuring purple grapes. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/15 "2008-12-11T22:28:56Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/16 "2008-12-11T22:37:59Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > My theory has always been that these places are named after the most prominent ecological feature that was destroyed in its construction. 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. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/17 "2008-12-12T01:51:56Z")
'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? ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/18 "2008-12-12T02:14:10Z")
> [@Black\_Sunshine](#): > > Friend of mine use to live in Sugarbush Apartments. Hehe. Sugarbush. Sugarbush is the term for a stand of maples used for collecting sap to make syrup. Still funny, though. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/19 "2008-12-12T02:14:55Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/20 "2008-12-12T02:19:06Z")
> [@Pazu](#): > > Eh, could have just been a fluke. +1 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767.md?page=2)