Former names you use without meaning to

[Henry]

I grappled for a minute today to not say "McNeil Lehrer" when talking about the news on PBS.

Same goes for the Big Three evening news: Tom Brokaw for NBC, Dan Rather for CBS and Peter Jennings for ABC. IIRC, Brokaw is retired, Rather got fired and Jennings is dead.

[kkt]

I grappled for a minute today to not say "McNeil Lehrer" when talking about the news on PBS.

Same goes for the Big Three evening news: Tom Brokaw for NBC, Dan Rather for CBS and Peter Jennings for ABC. IIRC, Brokaw is retired, Rather got fired and Jennings is dead.

Walter Cronkite.  Oh, yeah, dead too.

[english si]

Of course, Manchester is officially "Manchester-Boston", even though it's an hour away from Boston. Some idiot might assume that.

Only an hour away - that's close!

London Manston Airport was a good 90 minutes away. London Oxford Airport is a little bit closer, but still over 80 minutes. London Southend (which is a bit more credible) is 53 minutes away, Stansted (London's third Airport) is 45 minutes away from the city centre.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

The champion at that is Paris Vatry airport (over 125 miles and 2 hours away from Paris). Frankfurt Hahn is also far from Frankfurt (just over 100 miles, which takes 1 1/2 hours).

[Pete from Boston]

I grappled for a minute today to not say "McNeil Lehrer" when talking about the news on PBS.

Same goes for the Big Three evening news: Tom Brokaw for NBC, Dan Rather for CBS and Peter Jennings for ABC. IIRC, Brokaw is retired, Rather got fired and Jennings is dead.

I guess I never referred to them as the name of the broadcast.  The McNeil Lehrer Newshour had a gradual evolution – first becoming The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, then just PBS Newshour.   But it was officially the former much longer than either of the others.

[roadman65]

How many use Leno, Carson, and Jummy Fallon to name the tonight show?  In fact Antenna TV uses Johnny Carson to name the syndicated reruns each night.   However, that might be because NBC owns the name, and part of the deal is to use another name for airing old reruns.

[vtk]

How many use Leno, Carson, and Jummy Fallon to name the tonight show?  In fact Antenna TV uses Johnny Carson to name the syndicated reruns each night.   However, that might be because NBC owns the name, and part of the deal is to use another name for airing old reruns.

Back before the whole Jay/Conan fiasco, I referred to the Tonight Show as "Leno" all the time.

[mrsman]

How many use Leno, Carson, and Jummy Fallon to name the tonight show?  In fact Antenna TV uses Johnny Carson to name the syndicated reruns each night.   However, that might be because NBC owns the name, and part of the deal is to use another name for airing old reruns.

Back before the whole Jay/Conan fiasco, I referred to the Tonight Show as "Leno" all the time.

Most TV listings that I see, especially in grid form, list the last name of the host as the name of the show.

[formulanone]

...Stansted (London's third Airport) is 45 minutes away from the city centre.

Hmmm...a "no-traffic" 45 minutes, or typical "rush-hour" 45 minutes? Three-quarters of an hour isn't too bad a commute to a secondary airport. In some cases, I'm okay with 90 minutes if it's a more enjoyable experience or beneficial (although, usually ties back to roading and seeing the sights).

I'd guess that probably 75% of folks in the US are within 15-60 minutes of the nearest airport with commercial service.

Edit: good guess.

[hbelkins]

This floated across my Facebook feed yesterday.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Now that it has been renamed, Dnipropetrovsk.

Edit: good guess.

I don't want to click that link.

[english si]

...Stansted (London's third Airport) is 45 minutes away from the city centre.

Hmmm...a "no-traffic" 45 minutes, or typical "rush-hour" 45 minutes?

A 'no traffic' 45 minutes (it's doable now at 1am, but wouldn't be during non-late night hours) to the nearest bit of Central London. I'm surprised it was that good - that's the same as the 'express' train that I used, assuming (as it is the case for nearly all journeys into the centre of London) that it would be slower by road.

Three-quarters of an hour isn't too bad a commute to a secondary airport.

Sure, though this isn't a small airport - it has more passengers per year than Berlin's main one and is the 25th busiest in Europe (and would rank 21st in the US, ahead of BWI), though it's not as if there aren't two closer and bigger airports to Central London. The issue was airports a long way from the city they are named for, and this wasn't the worst one for London.

[jp the roadgeek]

This floated across my Facebook feed yesterday.

I'm waiting for one with John Adams that says "Take down those 128 signs, and we'll dump the 95 signs in Boston Harbor"

[formulanone]

Now that it has been renamed, Dnipropetrovsk.

Edit: good guess.

I don't want to click that link.

Don't confuse my stupidity with malice.

[roadman65]

The Citrus Bowl in Florida for one.  It has a new name, that I could care less about, and to me it was always "The Toilet Bowl" as it was always a burden on our city for years.

IMO it should have been leveled with a new stadium built in a more accessible area convenient to the city's highway network instead of the area its in now, where it is now only near FL 408, which is on everyone's boycott list due to the tolls on it.  Plus 408 is in only good if you are living east or west of town, which is really the reason.  Plus the new Soccer Stadium is only blocks away, so why do you need two stadiums anyhow?

If the old stadium did at least bring in some revenue then maybe even a new replacement should be built. Anyway, enough being carried off.

I most likely will call our highest peak Mount McKinnley as such, not because it was proposed by a president I cannot wait till he is out of office, because its just hard to say Denali even though that it was for ages prior to whenever it was renamed.  Plus I find no reason to rename something as we did discuss this in another thread earlier this year or late last year.   I may get used to it over time, but to all my friends and family we hardly ever discuss that particular peak, so it may never get to that point of adjusting to it.

[Takumi]

Now that it has been renamed, Dnipropetrovsk.

Or Kiev instead of Kyiv.

Side note: Ukrainian isn't the easiest language to learn.

[Max Rockatansky]

The Citrus Bowl in Florida for one.  It has a new name, that I could care less about, and to me it was always "The Toilet Bowl" as it was always a burden on our city for years.

IMO it should have been leveled with a new stadium built in a more accessible area convenient to the city's highway network instead of the area its in now, where it is now only near FL 408, which is on everyone's boycott list due to the tolls on it.  Plus 408 is in only good if you are living east or west of town, which is really the reason.  Plus the new Soccer Stadium is only blocks away, so why do you need two stadiums anyhow?

If the old stadium did at least bring in some revenue then maybe even a new replacement should be built. Anyway, enough being carried off.

I most likely will call our highest peak Mount McKinnley as such, not because it was proposed by a president I cannot wait till he is out of office, because its just hard to say Denali even though that it was for ages prior to whenever it was renamed.  Plus I find no reason to rename something as we did discuss this in another thread earlier this year or late last year.   I may get used to it over time, but to all my friends and family we hardly ever discuss that particular peak, so it may never get to that point of adjusting to it.

Not to mention the Orange Bowl is just on the outskirts of the Parramore neighborhood which has never been the best.  A lot of the reputation OBT has comes exclusively from that area of the city...it is about as it gets in Orlando.  They should have just made the new soccer stadium 60,000 seats and called it a day for multipurpose sports.  I think that the city was going with the angle of the Orange Bowl being a historic structure but then they go and rename it something stupid like "Camping World Stadium" and rip up Tinker Field to build a parking lot.

[inkyatari]

Every now and then I find myself using the names "Macy's" and "Willis Tower" by mistake.

[planxtymcgillicuddy]

I still refer to IndyCar as the IRL at times. Ditto for the Xfinity series.....I still catch myself calling it the Nationwide series from time to time

[jp the roadgeek]

I still refer to IndyCar as the IRL at times. Ditto for the Xfinity series.....I still catch myself calling it the Nationwide series from time to time

Most of us still call the main NASCAR series the Winston Cup.

Some that I do (sports and non-sports):

Travelers Championship: GHO
Macy's: Filene's or G Fox
XL Center: The (Hartford) Civic Center
MetLife Stadium: Giants Stadium (although it's a new building)
XFinity Center: The Meadows (Hartford) Great Woods (Mansfield, MA)
Six Flags New England: Riverside (Park)
Westfield Meriden (soon to be Meriden Mall, but not to be confused with another long gone mall with the same name): Meriden Square
CT 322 between I-84 and I-691, and I-691 itself east of Exit 4: Route 66

[ozarkman417]

Dixie Stampede

[zzcarp]

We still refer to US 36 as the Boulder Turnpike here in Denver, even though they stopped collecting tolls in 1967 (current HOT lanes excepted) and is officially named "Buffalo Highway" in honor of the University of Colorado mascot.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Now that this has been resurrected, let me introduce: Belgian Congo. Having two countries with the same shorthand name (Congo) right next to each other is quite confusing, so I use "plain" Congo for the smaller Republic of the Congo, and for the larger Democratic Republic of the Congo I use its former colonial name. Okay, I could have gone by its former name Zaire, but that doesn't include "Congo".

[1995hoo]

Now that this has been resurrected, let me introduce: Belgian Congo. Having two countries with the same shorthand name (Congo) right next to each other is quite confusing, so I use "plain" Congo for the smaller Republic of the Congo, and for the larger Democratic Republic of the Congo I use its former colonial name. Okay, I could have gone by its former name Zaire, but that doesn't include "Congo".

I find it very confusing that some American newspapers simply say "Congo" without giving any indication which one they mean. I suspect the Associated Press probably has some incorrect guideline saying that one of them is just plain "Congo" and the reader is supposed to know what the AP thinks is right.

[US71]

Dixie Stampede

I forgot they changed their name