On my way to Newark Airport yesterday to pick up my parents, I took a wrong turn and wound up sort of wandering around a bit before turning around and righting myself.
Along the way I noticed a street sign. It said “Coit Street”.
Again, I ask, what were they thinking?
I went to HS with a guy who’s last name was Coit. I am sorry to say, his life was rather miserable as a consequence…
What am I missing here? Coitus Street, now that would be funny… but Coit?
I have a friend who used to live on our local Coit Street. His house was indeed known as the Coitus house.
I’m not up on my verb forms and tenses, but “to coit” would be a way of saying “to engage in coitus.”
There’s also the ever popular intersection in NYC: Seaman and Cummings.
No, I am not making this up.
I have an old book by National Lampoon that shows a picture of the intersection of “Woodcock Rd” and “Kitchen-dick Ln”.
The great thing about Coit Tower is that from a distance it looks like a penis. You have to wonder if that was intentional.
In Oxford, there is a Crotch Crescent. Alas Grope Lane has been renamed
You could always hire someone to do it for you.
Yes. And there is a street that intersects it, called Dyckman. We went for the Deli this weekend.
It’s supposed to look like the nozzle to a fireman’s hose, and was meant as a memorial to the firefighters of San Francisco, particularly the ones who put out the blaze that consumed half the city after the 1906 earthquake. The money for it came from the estate of Lillian Hitchcock Coit, the “patron saint” of San Francisco firefighters. Long before the idea of the tower had even been conceived, there were rumors that Mrs. Coit was not so much enamored of the firefighter’s public service as she was of their <ahem> private services. The final design of the tower, obviously, did little to squelch those rumors, although Mrs. Coit had been dead for a couple of decades at that point.
Curious about the coit/coitus idea above, I looked up coit and got:
“\Coit, v. t. To throw, as a stone. [Obs.] See Quoit.”
Following the link to Quoit, it says “quoits (used with a sing. verb) A game in which flat rings of iron or rope are pitched at a stake, with points awarded for encircling it.”
I looked up coitus and I don’t think that the conjugation “to coit” would be correct.
After I posted that I didn’t get it, I looked up “coit” and found it’s Australian slang for buttocks, so I guessed that was what you meant. I don’t buy the coitus/coition thing.