Rhode Island Resource Recovery Industrial Park

[lagizma]

Tell me, does this sign read "DUMP?"

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[bart_calendar]

The scary thing is there are times I've been hired to come up with weird names like that for stuff.

The government loves obfuscation.

[lagizma]

Oh, man. If that was my job I couldn't resist making acronyms that either spell something evil or could stand for an alternate silly or foul phrase that would break down into the same acronym.

[bart_calendar]

But then you wouldn't get paid.

[lagizma]

Ahh, I wouldn't get paid like you, that's true. Fortunately I work in a very small software development group and our process is as follows:

1. Pick a cool acronym (for example, we have one program called R2D2 that speaks to another one called C3PO).

2. Come up with official words that fit into the acronym.

3. Run it by the co-worker who can make up a ridiculous alternate acronym meaning, and ensure that it is snarky enough.

4. Pass official acronym on to management.

5. Misbehave to ourselves mocking the name at all times.

They have history, but it's still a dump

[lagizma]

I was hoping you'd see this post.

So, is my fancy sign for what used to be known as Johnson Landfill?

[lagizma]

No, what would be bad is if you knew the driver of one of the cars in front of me.

[antarcticlust]

It amuses me that cities and states need to identify things with such excessively-long names given how cheap they are - wouldn't it be less expensive to print "DUMP" on the sign, instead? :P

[lagizma]

In the olden days of the 1990's and before, it was just Johnson Landfill, a huge grassy hill next to the highway and the alleged highest point in RI (not true - it's Jerimoth Hill). No sign, but everyone knew where Johnson Landfill was. I'm not sure why the DUMP now warrants an entire exit to itself.

[gina227]

I don't know why it needs a sign at all. It's quite easy to find, just follow the putrid smell.

This is like how they now call welfare FIP (Family Independence Program). Believe me, there is absolutely no independence involved, but I guess it sounds better than It Costs More To Get A Job Than It Does To Sit Home And Watch Jerry Springer All Day.

[lagizma]

Yeah, there is something odd about giving it an exit. You know where I work, and it is a pretty cool place, but we're not on the exit signs. There is a small brown sign if you know were to look, but the major sign doesn't even send you to the military base, which is pretty much the only reason to get off at that exit.

[theshapka]

Check out their awesome website!

[lagizma]

Haha, I remember MaxMan. Didn't we always stick him in the Middlebury Alumni magnet frame?

[lagizma]

Because I love you so much, I had no problem editing that entry at least four times and flooding your inbox with notification emails.

[theshapka]

:o)

I have gmail, so the mails were all grouped together as one.

[zenithblue]

I love it. Particularly that it ends in "park." I can imagine a very sad and confused family getting out of their minivan with picnic baskets.

[lagizma]

Which reminds me of the day just after we moved to RI from VA when Mom Lux packed up her three darling daughters and took us to the Pawtuxet Valley River Walk.

Which turned out to be a 0.5 mi dirt path along a low, brown "river." It ended and began on two major roads. We were a sad, lost family when we got to the end and realized that was it.

I just did some research, and it looks like it has been expanded to actually go somewhere, but I still think the segments aren't totally connected.