I heard about this agency yesterday on NPR, and wondered if they could have come up with a more unappealing name:
SEPTA (Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority)
It’s reminiscent of “septic.” Nice imagery there. :rolleyes:
This certainly beats out BART.
Actually, that post was supposed to go into MPSIMS, as it was certainly pretty mundane and pointless.
In my Copyrights class, we learned about the establishment of these panels that arbitrate copyrights in royalty disputes – but instead of calling them Copyright Royalty Arbitration Panels, which makes sense, Congress was smart enough to call them the rather ungrammatical but nonetheless fortunate Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panels, or CARPs.
–Cliffy
Huh. I don’t think SEPTA is all that bad. September, the number seven in general, etc. It’s certainly better than the Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terroristic Organizations and their Rehabilitation Into Society.
Scranton has COLTS (County of Lackawanna Transit System), and, I kid you not, one of the drivers is the spitting image of Ralph Kramden. One time, according to an article on him which I can’t find, one of his regular riders was a nasty older woman. He recalled picking her up one day after she had gone into town shopping. She had purchased a new broom, and when he opened the doors to let her on, asked her “What happened, did you run out of gas?”
I don’t mind SEPTA too much.
But some think that the Law of the Sea Treaty got so little political support at least in part because of its acronym, LOST.
So they went and named a TV show after it…
When I lived in San Jose circa 1993, the county was starting up a light rail transit system which they were going to call SCAT (Santa Clara Area Transit). I was one of the many people who had no idea that one meaning of “scat” is animal feces. After a bit of brouhaha, a different name was chosen.
I tend to agree.
Moved from IMHO to MPSIMS.
No one remembers Operation Iraqi Liberation?
Yet another fact thrown into the Memory Hole…
Similarly, a few years back when North Texas State University changed its name to the University of North Texas, for some strange reason they changed the name of its radio station to KNTU …
Noses is what I thought of when I first heard of this agency.
But transportation is supposed to connect places, and septa separate things.
I’ve heard it said that SEPTA actually stands for Severely Erratic Public Torture Agency. It’s not said by me; on the whole I like SEPTA.
I’ve never been fond of POTUS for President of the United States. It sounds like a skin eruption. Then there’s the abbreviations for “Prince” and “Princess”: P. and Pss…
When President Clinton got a Labrador dog, that made Buddy the LOTUS.
I was told that the Pendleton Middle School changed its name after all the sports teams refuse to wear the PMS jerseys.