What’s In A Name?

[cahwyguy]

Today’s a busy day, and I haven’t had time for much lunchtime reading, but I absolutely must comment on one article: “Getting the devil off the mountain: A devout Christian wants to change the name of Mt. Diablo. Who's in favor of Mt. Reagan?”No, I’m not joking. A devout Christian, Arthur Mijares, has filed the federal paperwork to change the name

Comments

[cabarethaze]

Thanks for posting this, I grew up around there and regularly went on hikes and such on Mt Diablo. I want to be able to take my future kids on excursions, and I hope they haven't re-re-named it after a soda brand or airline by then *G*

[llennhoff]

I suppose that someone upset at the decision to remove the cross from the LA city seal might consider this to be no worse.

[neo_tanuki]

I take this with more of a sense of humor than your post indicates (I don't think it's a sign of a crackdown on non-Christians, more just a very strange and goofy personal campaign by this individual).

However, I thought a story about my late great-grandfather told to me by my mom might lighten your mood. She said he refused to say the word "helicopter" because the first part sounded like "hell." Instead, he said "heelicopter."

As a child, I found this quite wacky. :) Mind you, this was rural Oklahoma back in the 1940s-1950s.

[terpsichoros]

It is a strange and goofy personal campaign by that particular individual, though someone else proposed renaming the mountain "Mt. John Muir". The County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to tell the geographic names board that they opposed *any* change to the name of the mountain.

[dennisthetiger]

Mt. Reagan?! Dude, his religious aspersions are a sham - if this really was a religious argument, he should be asking to rename it from diablo to jesucristo.

By this rationale, he should probably also rename Mt. Disappointment to Mt. Encouragement, Mt. Baldy to Mt. Minoxidil, and on MCC Pendleton, Old Baldy to Mt. Senior-Citizen-With-An-Intelligence-Solar-Panel, and up here, Mt. Si (sounds like "sigh") to Mt. Zoloft. Or maybe Rainier can be named something else, because of the association with the brand of beer that is/was produced in Seattle?

In addition, the colloquially named Mt. Mother^&#$%@!er could be renamed to...well, I can't come up with anything that "more appreciates" that one! =^_^=

[dennisthetiger]

(Additional note: Mt. MFer is on Pendleton - from what my brother says, it's so named because, after you climb that beast during basic training, that's what you call the thing.)

[dennisthetiger]

By the way, do you care if I link to this entry? I gotta broadcast this and get the word out.

[cahwyguy]

No problem.