# " 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/41 "2008-12-12T18:39:58Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > The big trend out here is The Something At Something, where both Somethings are completely made up and meaningless. The Generic Apartment Farm at The Highway Interchange? > [@BubbaDog](#): > > Kia’s **Sportage** which pops the word **Spoilage** immediately into my head. What about the Nissan Armada? The Spanish Armada LOST! It sank! It is one of the most famous losing enterprises in history! ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/42 "2008-12-12T18:41:47Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > The Generic Apartment Farm at The Highway Interchange? > > What about the Nissan Armada? The Spanish Armada LOST! It sank! It is one of the most famous losing enterprises in history! How about the Chevy Nova / No Va (as in no go?) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/43 "2008-12-12T21:14:26Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Or those that can’t make up their minds. We have a ‘Blue River Ranch Lakes Estates’. That is possibly the most awkward community name I’ve heard yet, and Calgary is no slouch in the awkward, pretentious community name contest. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/44 "2008-12-12T21:17:05Z")
I guess they’re all relying on the [Community Name Generator](http://nine.frenchboys.net/housing.php). ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/45 "2008-12-12T21:55:27Z")
Ha! That’s an awesome little doo-dad. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/46 "2008-12-13T00:31:40Z")
> [@Beadalin](#): > > I guess they’re all relying on the [Community Name Generator](http://nine.frenchboys.net/housing.php). That’s hilarious. And sort of amazing. I just generated 15 names, and 12 of them are completely and absolutely usable. The other 3 are only borderline. The next 15? 11 usable. 3 borderline. And one not so much. I think even the idiots who name these places would realize that naming a housing development “Mount Stonewood” would generate a few too many giggles." ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/47 "2008-12-13T01:24:27Z")
> [@Millit\_the\_Frail](#): > > The Toyota Previa is unfortunate to me, ever since my maternal-child nursing class. Something tells me they didn’t Google it. So I googled it and … eew. There was a YouTube link to something called ‘previa fiesta colegialas’ I was a little afraid to click on it, so of course I did. It appears to be just three scantily clad Spanish speaking girls getting ready for a party. We have a condo building called NoMa because it is North of Market Street. :rolleyes: Also one called Danielle. I want to live in a building called The Bourgeois ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/48 "2008-12-13T01:42:07Z")
> [@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. Pinhook Rd. is one of the four or five streets you have to go on to get anywhere in Lafayette, LA, and sees 30,000 cars a day. So I guess the word “pinhook” reminds me of sitting in traffic, mostly. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/49 "2008-12-13T14:16:32Z")
The town the Rolling Stones grew up in has just decided to call a load of new streets after Stones songs… now you’ll be able to live on _Satisfaction Street_, or\* Ruby Tuesday Drive\*! [BBC link](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7779152.stm) ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/50 "2008-12-13T15:19:51Z")
Whenever we go to my grandparents’ house in Poquoson (near Langley, Hampton, Newport News) we pass a subdivision called, “Running Man.” Which is great, because when I think homey suburban lifestyle, I also like to think of Schwarzenegger ducking behind buildings and blowing shit up. ---
**Author:** ![Lilacs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Lilacs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lilacs)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/51 "2008-12-13T17:25:17Z")
We have a street called Golden Rain in the newer part of town here. I refuse to live on Golden Rain. ---
**Author:** ![Paladud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Paladud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paladud)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/52 "2008-12-13T18:42:39Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > 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. A relative of one of my friends owns that one. It’s intentional. There’s a “Cheezi” just around the corner, too 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/53 "2008-12-13T19:09:12Z")
If there’s gonna be a development called “Journey’s End,” (and there is!) I suppose south Florida is the right place for it. ---
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/54 "2008-12-13T19:11:46Z")
Pity we can’t move to [Gay Head](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Head) anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/55 "2008-12-13T21:13:10Z")
> [@Meurglys](#): > > The town the Rolling Stones grew up in has just decided to call a load of new streets after Stones songs… now you’ll be able to live on _Satisfaction Street_, or\* Ruby Tuesday Drive\*! > [BBC link](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7779152.stm) Oh please oh please oh please can I live on Bitch Street? ---
**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/56 "2008-12-14T10:45:10Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > Do unfortunate acronyms count in this thread? > > Because I just had to write a profile on an association called ASPILOW. > > And on Monday, the standardized aptitude test my son is taking is called SCAT. ahh unfortunate acronyms! choose me choose me! Here in Philippines we have a local terrorist group called the Moro Islamic Liberation Front! Always abbreviated and everyone is oblivious to the western usage of the same acronym 🙂 Many many schoolboy sniggers to be had with newspaper headlines describing US and philippine troops Milf hunting down in the southern islands! ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/57 "2008-12-14T12:05:33Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > . . . I always thought “Candida” was a girl’s name. > . . . While you’re correct–“candida” is also the name of a yeast infection–I would suggest that as recently as the 70s, it was known only to medical practitioners and sufferers; and to the population at large, was better known as a girl’s name. Another defensive Candidian. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/58 "2008-12-14T13:08:45Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > How about the Chevy Nova / No Va (as in no go?) I can say that the Mitsubishi Pajero\* must have gone over like a lead zeppelin in the Spanish speaking market. 😛 In my country (Uruguay) the most prominent prison is located near the town of Libertad, so we have the _Penal de Libertad_, Freedom Penitenciary. I’m sure the inmates don’t appreciate the irony. Here in Bangkok, down the street there is a Porn Mansion, turns out to be just a regular serviced apartment building. \*_-Pajero: wanker._ ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/59 "2008-12-14T14:02:52Z")
> [@manila](#): > > ahh > Many many schoolboy sniggers to be had with newspaper headlines describing US and philippine troops Milf hunting down in the southern islands! I wonder when the season for that is and where you get the permits 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767/60 "2008-12-14T19:17:46Z")
Slightly off topic, am I the only one that thinks that “Adult Communities” sounds more like somewhere to engage in very kinky sex, rather than retirement communities? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-parasites-apartments/476767.md?page=4)