Slog - Comments on Dumb Lunt http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt The Telegraph reports that a village in the UK is considering a name change—villagers, the paper asserts, are sick of local "yobs" defacing signs identifying the village. The name of the village? Lunt—which also so happens to be the name of the street in Chicago where my family lived for, oh, twenty years. (Old joke: There are three streets in Chicago that rhyme with vagina: Paulina, Carolina, and Lunt.) But if you read the story it's pretty clear that villagers, plural, aren't pushing this name change. All the villagers the paper spoke to—save one—are against the name change. So who's... Copyright 2008 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:41:26 -0800 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:25:28 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Michigan Matt That joke made me laugh.

]]> Michigan Matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c993686 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c993686 News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:47:40 -0800 Comment by laterite They're a lunt hair away from change.

]]> laterite http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c993688 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c993688 News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:48:51 -0800 Comment by DanFan There's a town in Germany called Fucking. They think it's funny. So do I.

]]> DanFan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c993692 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c993692 News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:51:31 -0800 Comment by elenchos STOP
FOR ME
IT'S
THE
CUNT!

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c993696 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c993696 News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:53:45 -0800 Comment by UNPAID BLOGGER Change the town name to Locksucker.

]]> UNPAID BLOGGER http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c993704 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c993704 News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:01:21 -0800 Comment by iheartbeer You forgot Melvina.

]]> iheartbeer http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c993733 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c993733 News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:27:34 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Remember when AOL blocked all mention of the town of Scunthorpe?

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c993734 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c993734 News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:29:29 -0800 Comment by ellarosa if they were clever they would change the town name to "cunt" and the local "yobs" would change the "c" to an "l," thus solving the problem.

]]> ellarosa http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c993735 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c993735 News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:30:35 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Why not just get the conservative politician drunk and wheel him down to a recruiting office to go die in Iraq?

That would solve it.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c993744 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c993744 News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:40:09 -0800 Comment by Julie (in Chicago) I love that joke. But, I've always told it with Paulina, Regina, and Lunt -- all streets I know. I've never heard of Carolina (or Melvina).

]]> Julie (in Chicago) http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c993745 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c993745 News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:40:40 -0800 Comment by leek Indeed. Cunt comes from the Latin cunctus, meaning crack. (But my research on this vital matter in the past didn't tell me when it started being used this way.)

]]> leek http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c993952 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c993952 News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:12:37 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale Is it for ye wolde have my queynte allone?
Wy, taak it al! lo, have it every deel!

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c994327 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c994327 News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:29:46 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale Is it for ye wolde have my queynte allone?
Wy, taak it al! lo, have it every deel!

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c994354 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c994354 News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:37:43 -0800 Comment by thickturd medina, regina and lunt

]]> thickturd http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c994406 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c994406 News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:06:03 -0800 Comment by quasilaur When I was living in Chicago, and whenever I was visiting the Heartland Cafe w/ friends, I always made sure I kicked Lunt. I like kicking Lunt.

]]> quasilaur http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c994708 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c994708 News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:22:27 -0800 Comment by Irena Um, excuse me? This from a man named Dr. Ball?

]]> Irena http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c994710 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/dumb_lunt#c994710 News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:25:28 -0800