Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (53905)	7/27/2000 6:47:22 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

One of the new mini-developments in my neighborhood is called The Preserve. I think that's because they didn't bulldoze down ALL the trees, they left 40 or 50 in carefully spaced clumps here and there. The Preserve, huh? Been thinking about these inane subdivision names overnight... We happen to have our fair share of them around these parts... We have a lot of "The Forests of Blankety-Blank" up here... Bzzzzzzztttt --- WRONG!!!! They WERE the FORESTS of Blankety-Blank....until the dudes with the bulldozers and chainsaws showed up to make way for a bunch of roads, houses and tennis courts... At some point in the process, these places stopped being forests at all... and started turning into ugly, ostentatious subdivisions with pompous names... ...or even idiotic ones.... I'm thinking of a new one to the area that has me perplexed and scratching my head to make sense out of it.... ~~~~ East Coast Estates ~~~~ Hmmph!! EAST COAST ESTATES!!!! Let me guess... We're about...oh.... say 400 miles AT LEAST from any area that I could even begin to think of as being part of the East Coast... so I'm left thinking... "What's this all about?". However, after a bit of hard thinking... I did come up with one possible explanation. You see... if you know this area, you'll know that there's a.... hmmm.... guess we could just call it a SWAMP... back in the trees on this piece of land... So I'm thinking that the subdivision's name came about because it's on the east coast of this swamp.... Truly, that is the only reason that I can come up with that makes any sense at all... but then maybe subdivisions don't really need names that make sense... Like "Hunter's Crossing"... Yeah, right... like we have all kinds of hunters crossing the road in the middle of suburbia... I can just see them... maybe with their florescent orange caps and their shotguns and a pack of deerhounds... wandering across the 4-lane wide boulevard down by the mega- store mall... perhaps nodding and waving to the passersbys in minivans and SUVs... as they make their way down to the little park to blast the ducks and geese swimming around in the little pond next to the jungle gym and the swing set... ...uh...yep...guess it works for me.... How 'bout you?