c/lemmyshitpost · by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website · 2yHow embarrassing 1.0k points · 29 comments · view on lemmy.world
29 Comments
ivanafterall@kbin.social · 46 pts · 2y
But look at how many people named after airports (and grade schools) became president. It's like a shortcut to success.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
How many grade schools have become President?
jcit878@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y
Harold Holt was an Australian PM who disappeared at sea, presumably drowned.
We named a pool after him
altima_neo@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 2y
Herbert Hoover got a vacuum named after him
Pregnenolone@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
Naming your kid after a shooting victim
Declamatie@mander.xyz · 12 pts · 2y
I don't live in the USA, but isn't that a spaceport?
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
He has an air port and a space port. All kinds of ports
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe · 7 pts · 2y
The man did love slipping into a different port every night.
WrittenWeird@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y
Even has a brain port, how cool is that?
revlayle@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y
teruma@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
There are many buildings that Kennedy is named for.
pascal@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
You mean the one next to terraformed Mars?
robocall@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
I heard he was named after a street!!
Denvil@lemmy.one · 6 pts · 2y
I heard he was named aftet a library
Klear@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
I heard his family was named after a band.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
They did the same with Ronald Reagan!
Serinus@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2y
They named him "National"?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 2y
Yes. His name was President Ronald Reagan National Airport.
Serinus@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
Oh, the airport is just named "National". I think the rest is a typo.
teruma@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
I share a name with a local airport. It's pretty embarrassing.
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website · 10 pts · 2y
That's nothing to be embarrassed about, La Guardia.
pascal@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
Which is probably the worst airport in New York. But I'm always fascinated by the name.
For who doesn't know, it can be translated as "the guardian" or "the guarding".
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 2y
I'm sorry to hear that Salt Lake City International Airport. Who calls their kid that? It's just cruel.
Barack_Embalmer@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
I always wondered why they decided to honor the memory of John Wayne Gacy by naming an airport after him.
tslnox@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 2y
Jeff Key?
jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.org · 4 pts · 2y
The Kennedy name continues with RFK Jr.
Interesting times...
fat_stig@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
If it's good enough for John Lennon...
Gimpydude@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 2y
That's wild. Idlewild.
neptune@dmv.social · 3 pts · 2y
OK, but imagine naming your child DCA?
leap123@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
My uncle is named after the same airport
faceless@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y