Tuesday, October 6, 2009
City The Capitol Hill Streetcar: What Are We Gonna Call It?
Posted by Dan Savage on Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:28 PM
Yesterday the Seattle City Council "approved an agreement" to build the city's second streetcar line. This one is gonna start at Union Station, run through the International District and First Hill, before terminating at the site of the future light rail station at Broadway and John. It may run on Broadway, it may run on 12th, and it's supposed to be up and running by late 2010. Yesterday I asked Sloggers what the new trolley should be called. South Lake Union got the SLUT. What's Capitol Hill going to get? Let's vote on the best suggestions...
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Thought of this last night-- may be too late to be voted on.
CH STD
(Capitol Hill Streetcar to Downtown)
CH STD
(Capitol Hill Streetcar to Downtown)
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Tee hee hee YOU SAID BUTT. Couldn't come up with an acronym for PEE PEE? The SLUT was kind of cute. . now it's just 4th grade nostalgia.
How about CHET, the Capitol Hill Electric Transit? I'd ride the CHET.
How about CHET, the Capitol Hill Electric Transit? I'd ride the CHET.
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@1 it's not Slog's fault it's hard to come up with a word that starts with K for, say, DICK (Direct Inter-Cap-hill ???) or COCK (Capitol Over-City ???)
Best to direct your energy toward writing up a derogatory-towards-men competitor that's better than these (rather strained) examples.
Best to direct your energy toward writing up a derogatory-towards-men competitor that's better than these (rather strained) examples.
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Capitol Hill Lightrail And Mobile Youth DIsplacement Agitator
or
the Cap-hill Lightrail And Passage for short.
or
the Cap-hill Lightrail And Passage for short.
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The CHOAD
"How was your weekend?"
"Aw, it was great! I was riding the CHOAD sunday morning until it hurt!"
"How was your weekend?"
"Aw, it was great! I was riding the CHOAD sunday morning until it hurt!"
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I'm still calling it SLUT 2. Which will probably get me in trouble with everyone who says "You're not a real X if you don't use the word Y to mean Z." Kind of like that pop vs soda mutual masturbation argument, you know?
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@8 We could really let that one take flight if it was the Capitol Hill Overground Advanced Dirigible. Who wouldn't want to ride a giant inflatable CHOAD?
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oooh-
He said cunt!
and clit!
and shit!!
and butt!
and bitch!!
and twat!
are we hip and cool and sophisticated; or what?!
He said cunt!
and clit!
and shit!!
and butt!
and bitch!!
and twat!
are we hip and cool and sophisticated; or what?!
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how about AUDSTTH. as in, As Usual Dan Savage Trying Too Hard to be funny, interesting, edgy, whatever. and as usual, failing.
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Don't you know someone in the future mayor's office? Make it happen. We voted.
And we all know how much we love to vote on transit. In fact, I think this decision, like all transit decisions, is best done via ballot. This should just be an advisory vote. Then we can have the real thing.
Even so, I'm not sure I could handle the CUNT/TWAT recount fight though.
And we all know how much we love to vote on transit. In fact, I think this decision, like all transit decisions, is best done via ballot. This should just be an advisory vote. Then we can have the real thing.
Even so, I'm not sure I could handle the CUNT/TWAT recount fight though.
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Well, you could always call it the East Seattle Trolley, but people might pee their pants on it if you call it EST.
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Look, the smutty anagrams are fun 'n' all, but I think it should really be called the Camel to enshrine Rasmussen's seemingly grudging support (and his mangling of the metaphor--it's "a camel's nose under the tent," not the whole bloody camel!). Plus, camels carry things (perhaps grudgingly).
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Dan's article says:
"it's supposed to be up and running by late 2010"
but the linked Seattle Times article sez:
"build and operate Sound Transit's new First Hill streetcar by the mid-2010s"
"it's supposed to be up and running by late 2010"
but the linked Seattle Times article sez:
"build and operate Sound Transit's new First Hill streetcar by the mid-2010s"
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BROJACK - BROadway/JACKson
MUNCH - Medical/UNion Stn/Cap Hill
PUNCH - Pill Hill/UNion Stn/Cap Hill
HUNCH - Hospitals/UNion Stn/Cap Hill
BRUNT - BRoadway/UNion Stn/Trolley
MUNCH - Medical/UNion Stn/Cap Hill
PUNCH - Pill Hill/UNion Stn/Cap Hill
HUNCH - Hospitals/UNion Stn/Cap Hill
BRUNT - BRoadway/UNion Stn/Trolley
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taking out lanes on Broadway?
why not get a bus and paint it with the word trolley?
service can start next week without a $100 million investment.
why not get a bus and paint it with the word trolley?
service can start next week without a $100 million investment.
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how about
Highly Efficient Rail Passage Escorting Seattleites?
as in, "HERPES is link between Downtown and Montlake"
Highly Efficient Rail Passage Escorting Seattleites?
as in, "HERPES is link between Downtown and Montlake"
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Regardless of what we call this one, it will be part of the Connected Urban Network of Trolleys for Seattle:
http://www.cafepress.com/gurple.34913068…
http://www.cafepress.com/gurple.34913068…
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Holy crap, I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.
For the record, I really liked C.U.N.T., B.I.N.T., and G.A.R.T. You just don't see "cunt" in print nearly enough; "bint" is marvelously obscure and I like obscurity; and Gay Area Rapid Transit is perfect (except it's not rapid transit now is it).
But I voted for T.W.A.T. -- TWelfth Avenue Trolley -- because, if the stars are right, it'll run along a Twelfth Avenue loop route after all.
For the record, I really liked C.U.N.T., B.I.N.T., and G.A.R.T. You just don't see "cunt" in print nearly enough; "bint" is marvelously obscure and I like obscurity; and Gay Area Rapid Transit is perfect (except it's not rapid transit now is it).
But I voted for T.W.A.T. -- TWelfth Avenue Trolley -- because, if the stars are right, it'll run along a Twelfth Avenue loop route after all.
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