Man calls for the town of Amherst, MA, to be renamed

UMass Daily Collegian ^ | 9/5/17 | Charpentier

[stylecouncilor]

Ping

[Westbrook]

> Coordinates on the Borg Unimatrix.

Even better!

Or should I say, “Doubleplusgood!”

[miss marmelstein]

Great!

Hope no one has said, a la Spencer Tracy: “You know, Hornbeck - I’m getting damned sick of you!”

[ETL]

We have a friggin street sign here in New York City in honor of Winnie and Nelson Mandela!

[Hot Tabasco]

he instructed that smallpox infected blankets be passed out to “the heinous dogs,”

I've always wondered why the folks allegedly passing out infected blankets never caught the disease themselves...........

[Gargantua]

Like California, Massachusetts has a way of producing some remarkably dyed-in-the-wool lunatics who are absolutely certain that they are right...

...and as politically incorrect as it may seem to be frank on the topic, it's also why our Forefathers enshrined the Second Amendment.

[Bonemaker]

“Man calls for the town of Amherst, MA, to be renamed”

Man told to go F himself.

[bgill]

As long as he isn’t a NA, he shouldn’t have a say in if they are or aren’t upset. Perhaps Pocahontas Warren could chime in.

[ETL]

Re: my post 44 above on Winnie and Nelson Mandela street sign in Manhattan, New York.

[2CAVTrooper]

My hometown was forced to change the HS mascot from an Indian (was just like the ‘54 -’66 Milwaukee Braves logo) to something that looks like a Johnny Depp drag queen “pirate” because some snowflake said the Indian was offensive because our name is Marauders.

[Architect of Avalon]

Amerigo Vespucci may have done something that was objectionable to someone at some point.

[kaehurowing]

That’s where the Defectors of 1821 hang out.

[j.havenfarm]

An excellent suggestion, but costly to change signs,
Civic buildings, etc.. As suggested in the article, they should pass a resolution that the city is no longer named after the evil Lord Jeff. Now it’s named after his sister Molly. She was nice. There! Moral preening on the cheap.

[onedoug]

Never really gave much thought to the Amherst name, but as I do, I realize that the injuns in the French and Indian War were far more savage than their English counterparts, and damned if I wouldn’t have worked to wipe them out in any ways, as well as in manners similar to old Lord Jeffery’s.

As an afterthought, they could call the town “Dickinson”.

“My life had stood - a Loaded Gun....”

[Albion Wilde]

Rename it Emily.

[Albion Wilde]

Here’s a name to please the PC police: TRANSylvania.