Welcome to the EGGhead Forum - a great place to visit and packed with tips and EGGspert advice! You can also join the conversation and get more information and amazing kamado recipes by following Big Green Egg to Experience our World of Flavor™ at:
Facebook  |  Twitter  |  Instagram  |  Pinterest  |  Youtube  |  Vimeo
Share your photos by tagging us and using the hashtag #BigGreenEgg.

Want to see how the EGG is made? Click to Watch

OT - Renaming Austin, Tx .... Looking for suggestions

1235»

Comments

  • billt01
    billt01 Posts: 1,882
    how petitioning for a name change or removing a statue is a productive way to spend anyone's time is beyond me... 



    Have:
     XLBGE / Stumps Baby XL / Couple of Stokers (Gen 1 and Gen 3) / Blackstone 36 / Maxey 3x5 water pan hog cooker
    Had:
    LBGE / Lang 60D / Cookshack SM150 / Stumps Stretch / Stumps Baby

    Fat Willies BBQ
    Ola, Ga

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • SonVolt
    SonVolt Posts: 3,316
    I'm still in favor of finding a different person named Austin from the state of Texas to rename the city after if this gains some traction...
    South of Nashville  -  BGE XL  -  Alfresco 42" ALXE  -  Alfresco Versa Burner  - Sunbeam Microwave 
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 34,682
    billt01 said:
    how petitioning for a name change or removing a statue is a productive way to spend anyone's time is beyond me... 



    I agree.  It’s akin to trying to debate “chaotic theory” with someone on a bbq forum.  
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike

    "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • SonVolt
    SonVolt Posts: 3,316
    edited August 2018
    .
    South of Nashville  -  BGE XL  -  Alfresco 42" ALXE  -  Alfresco Versa Burner  - Sunbeam Microwave 
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 34,682
    SonVolt said:
    I'm still in favor of finding a different person named Austin from the state of Texas to rename the city after if this gains some traction...
    What about this guy?



    I don’t know if he’s from Texas, but he’s got the right first name.
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike

    "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,567
    name the city after the homeless of austin that are fondly  called dragworms by the locals.  nice place
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • SonVolt
    SonVolt Posts: 3,316
    JohnInCarolina said:
    SonVolt said:
    I'm still in favor of finding a different person named Austin from the state of Texas to rename the city after if this gains some traction...
    What about this guy?



    I don’t know if he’s from Texas, but he’s got the right first name.


    Not a bad idea... 
    South of Nashville  -  BGE XL  -  Alfresco 42" ALXE  -  Alfresco Versa Burner  - Sunbeam Microwave 
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    I would hate to be on the commission that has to rename everything and tear down statues if North Korea were ever to become a democracy.
    ______________________________________________
    I love lamp..
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • SonVolt
    SonVolt Posts: 3,316
    kim Jong-un Kardashian Freeway
    South of Nashville  -  BGE XL  -  Alfresco 42" ALXE  -  Alfresco Versa Burner  - Sunbeam Microwave 
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • jeffwit
    jeffwit Posts: 1,348
    nolaegghead said:
    I would hate to be on the commission that has to rename everything and tear down statues if North Korea were ever to become a democracy.
    Yeah, and think of all the Dennis Rodman statues they’d have to build. 
    Jefferson, GA
    XL BGE, MM, Things to flip meat over and stuff
    Wife, 3 kids, 5 dogs, 4 cats, 12 chickens, 2 goats, 2 pigs. 
    “Honey, we bought a farm.”
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 34,682
    nolaegghead said:
    I would hate to be on the commission that has to rename everything and tear down statues if North Korea were ever to become a democracy.
    I don’t think they’re running the risk of becoming a democracy anytime soon.  They’re more likely to become a parking lot first, the way our “negotiations” are going with them. Although, obviously I’ve never been in sales, so who knows. 
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike

    "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    Kimchi Jong-un Freeway
    ______________________________________________
    I love lamp..
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • SGH
    SGH Posts: 28,988
    nolaegghead said:
    Kimchi Jong-un Freeway
    Anal Avenue.  

    Location- Just "this side" of Biloxi, Ms.

    Status- Standing by.

    The greatest barrier against all wisdom, the stronghold against knowledge itself, is the single thought, in ones mind, that they already have it all figured out. 

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • billt01
    billt01 Posts: 1,882
    JohnInCarolina said:
    billt01 said:
    how petitioning for a name change or removing a statue is a productive way to spend anyone's time is beyond me... 



    I agree.  It’s akin to trying to debate “chaotic theory” with someone on a bbq forum.  

    Have:
     XLBGE / Stumps Baby XL / Couple of Stokers (Gen 1 and Gen 3) / Blackstone 36 / Maxey 3x5 water pan hog cooker
    Had:
    LBGE / Lang 60D / Cookshack SM150 / Stumps Stretch / Stumps Baby

    Fat Willies BBQ
    Ola, Ga

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • KennyLee
    KennyLee Posts: 806
    billt01 said:
    how petitioning for a name change or removing a statue is a productive way to spend anyone's time is beyond me... 




    Shhhh.....let them keep whining and squealing about such inane crap.     

    LBGE

    Cedar table w/granite top

    Ceramic Grillworks two-tier swing rack

    Perpetual cooler of ice-cold beer

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    KennyLee said:
    billt01 said:
    how petitioning for a name change or removing a statue is a productive way to spend anyone's time is beyond me... 




    Shhhh.....let them keep whining and squealing about such inane crap.     
    Black people in country responding to confederate war losers never-ending whining, ad nauseam:

    "Shhhh.....let them keep whining and squealing about such inane crap."


    ______________________________________________
    I love lamp..
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 34,682
    nolaegghead said:
    KennyLee said:
    billt01 said:
    how petitioning for a name change or removing a statue is a productive way to spend anyone's time is beyond me... 




    Shhhh.....let them keep whining and squealing about such inane crap.     
    Black people in country responding to confederate war losers never-ending whining, ad nauseam:

    "Shhhh.....let them keep whining and squealing about such inane crap."


    You got a purty mouth...
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike

    "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    (banjos)
    ______________________________________________
    I love lamp..
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • billt01
    billt01 Posts: 1,882
    JohnInCarolina said:
    nolaegghead said:
    KennyLee said:
    billt01 said:
    how petitioning for a name change or removing a statue is a productive way to spend anyone's time is beyond me... 




    Shhhh.....let them keep whining and squealing about such inane crap.     
    Black people in country responding to confederate war losers never-ending whining, ad nauseam:

    "Shhhh.....let them keep whining and squealing about such inane crap."


    You got a purty mouth...
    @JohnInCarolina

    you get the twin pack...


    Have:
     XLBGE / Stumps Baby XL / Couple of Stokers (Gen 1 and Gen 3) / Blackstone 36 / Maxey 3x5 water pan hog cooker
    Had:
    LBGE / Lang 60D / Cookshack SM150 / Stumps Stretch / Stumps Baby

    Fat Willies BBQ
    Ola, Ga

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • GATraveller
    GATraveller Posts: 8,207
    edited August 2018
    Nat Turner, TX
    Orenthal Simpson, TX

    Those seem more acceptable.

    Need to check into renaming Houston, Lubbock, Garland, Corpus Christi, Arlington, and San Antonio as well.  This is tiring.  


    "Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community [...] but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."
                                                                                  -Umberto Eco

    2 Large
    Peachtree Corners, GA
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • SonVolt
    SonVolt Posts: 3,316
    edited August 2018
    I've always thought renaming allegedly "offensive" sports teams was stupid... but this pic from yesterday really drove it home how ridiculous something like "Redskins" is for a sports team in 2018. It's been so normalized I never took a step back and looked at it objectively in someone else's shows with me as the target... even though that would totally make a cool team name. 


    South of Nashville  -  BGE XL  -  Alfresco 42" ALXE  -  Alfresco Versa Burner  - Sunbeam Microwave 
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • GATraveller
    GATraveller Posts: 8,207
    SonVolt said:
    I've always thought renaming allegedly "offensive" sports teams was stupid... but this pic from yesterday really drove it home how ridiculous something like "Redskins" is for a sports team in 2018. It's been so normalized I never took a step back and looked at it objectively in someone else's shows with me as the target... even though that would totally make a cool team name. 


    Yes but in no way do I find that offensive.  Maybe I just have thick skin.

    "Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community [...] but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."
                                                                                  -Umberto Eco

    2 Large
    Peachtree Corners, GA
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • theyolksonyou
    theyolksonyou Posts: 18,459
    I really want to say something offensive about the prowess of a sports team named Caucasians, but I’ll refrain.  
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • billt01
    billt01 Posts: 1,882
    SonVolt said:
    I've always thought renaming allegedly "offensive" sports teams was stupid... but this pic from yesterday really drove it home how ridiculous something like "Redskins" is for a sports team in 2018. It's been so normalized I never took a step back and looked at it objectively in someone else's shows with me as the target... even though that would totally make a cool team name. 


    $#!+...

    there goes the Vikings...




    Have:
     XLBGE / Stumps Baby XL / Couple of Stokers (Gen 1 and Gen 3) / Blackstone 36 / Maxey 3x5 water pan hog cooker
    Had:
    LBGE / Lang 60D / Cookshack SM150 / Stumps Stretch / Stumps Baby

    Fat Willies BBQ
    Ola, Ga

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • KennyLee
    KennyLee Posts: 806
    JohnInCarolina said:
    nolaegghead said:
    KennyLee said:
    billt01 said:
    how petitioning for a name change or removing a statue is a productive way to spend anyone's time is beyond me... 




    Shhhh.....let them keep whining and squealing about such inane crap.     
    Black people in country responding to confederate war losers never-ending whining, ad nauseam:

    "Shhhh.....let them keep whining and squealing about such inane crap."


    You got a purty mouth...

    Knew you guys were buddies, but didn't know it was that kind.  Explains a lot, though.

    Like I said, keep up the whining and focus on renaming cities and highways and....and....and.....please.  While most of us focus on real issues.

    LBGE

    Cedar table w/granite top

    Ceramic Grillworks two-tier swing rack

    Perpetual cooler of ice-cold beer

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • thetrim
    thetrim Posts: 11,387
    JohnInCarolina said:
    TEXASBGE2018 said:
    nolaegghead said:
    TEXASBGE2018 said:
    I think for the sake of everyone's sanity we should remove all names from all cities and just number them. Same for streets. Can't get all butthurt can you when the address is 1375 4th Street, City # 6, Texas? Hope everybody can count really high. 
    How about we just don't name public places for people that are *primarily* known as killers of jews, slavers, fascists, traitors and child molesters, and just leave everything else the way it is?
    Because in todays world for some people that's not far enough. Good intentions can and will be taken advantage of often. Its been said a ton and its cliché but "Those who forget history are bound to repeat it." Sure maybe a name change of a city doesn't cause a genocide. Maybe taking a statue down doesn't either.  But given the general ignorance of todays society. If you start revising history and shunning the unfortunate parts of it to the shadows. Eventually you get another Hitler or Mao. So maybe instead of changing the name of a city because mob rule of the day says so. Maybe teach people that what those people did was horrific and wrong and should never be repeated. But also that the challenges in changing something like an enormous city on a whim is also time consuming, costly, and doesn't change the fact that those people existed.
    There are no Hitler high schools in Germany.  Somehow they’ve managed to avoid having another one rise up.

    The US is really one of the only countries that insists on keeping statues of people who were literally traitors.  

    Nobody is saying we have to forget the history.  We have history books and museums for that.  Just don’t glorify the aholes in the public square.  I don’t think it’s really all that hard to accomplish.  
    Very true.  I heard they have an Obama High School in several States. 
    =======================================
    XL 6/06, Mini 6/12, L 10/12, Mini #2 12/14 MiniMax 3/16 Large #2 11/20 Legacy from my FIL - RIP PitBoss Navigator 850G 11/25
    Tampa Bay, FL
    EIB 6 Oct 95
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • thetrim
    thetrim Posts: 11,387
    And in Obama's Native Kenya, they have a National Holiday celebrating his 2008 Election Victory. #Can'tMakeThisUp #FinallyProudOfMyCountry
    =======================================
    XL 6/06, Mini 6/12, L 10/12, Mini #2 12/14 MiniMax 3/16 Large #2 11/20 Legacy from my FIL - RIP PitBoss Navigator 850G 11/25
    Tampa Bay, FL
    EIB 6 Oct 95
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Categories