“Stop naming things after people, living or dead. No schools. No streets. No courthouses. No fountains. Just quit it.”
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Also: enough with the statues already. They're not history; they're hagiography.
As someone who was named after his father, I say let's add children to this list. Enough with the Juniors, Littles, and "the Youngers."
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I'm catching up on posts, so this is old, but I rad this and realized that it aligns perfectly with a simple rule I identified when choosing tattoos: Never get anyone (or anything)'s name tattooed on you.
Some can make an argument that a dead relative is pretty safe for a name tattoo, but I still think it's a bad idea. I don't even have my kids' initials anywhere.
Counterpoint: the Artemis II crew naming a Moon crater after their commander's wife who recently died.
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