Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Alternate Names

There's an odd phenomenon in downtown Binghamton...a series of apartment buildings that resemble 19th-century slums and yet hold names like "The Cherokee" or "The Grand Dupree", embossed in stained glass, above their entryways. This smacks of dishonesty, but I see what they're going for: you know, creating an air of luxury and all that. Oddly enough, Americans are willing to associate anything with luxury as long as it has a European name. So here's the solution: name the buildings honestly, only in other languages.

Here are some helpful examples:

L'Hotel de Merde
Sheissehaus
Hall of Shit (in a British accent)

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