Biggest number of letters in a street name?

[Big John]

All voweled up.

[Rothman]

40% of your consonants were wrong.

Pfft.  Most consonants in Slavic languages are wrong, anyway.

In the end, it's nearly impossible to say it the way I had written it without the technical "shushes" in there, anyway.

Eh, so thank you for making it technically correct.

Potato, potato; tomato, tomato.

[GaryV]

Let's call the whole thing off.

(Oh wait, that doesn't work on a forum.)

[kphoger]

Tomato, tomato, potato, potato.

Potato, potato; tomato, tomato.

Are you suggesting that puh-TOT-oh is an acceptable pronunciation of potato?  If so, then you're wrong about that too.

[formulanone]

Let's call the whole thing off.

(Oh wait, that doesn't work on a forum.)

I think you're supposed to find something which rhymes with "Olive Garden", first.

[kphoger]

I think you're supposed to find something which rhymes with "Olive Garden", first.

Dear Rothman, sir, I beg thy pardon:
A dinner date with Carrie doth approach;
I'll take my bride to Olive Garden,
Despite thy certain coming proud reproach.

Spaghetti cooked with shrimp and lardon,
Alfredo, cheese, a glass of pinot gris:
With these our arteries we'll harden
And pay no single passing thought to thee.

[Rothman]

I think you're supposed to find something which rhymes with "Olive Garden", first.

Dear Rothman, sir, I beg thy pardon:
A dinner date with Carrie doth approach;
I'll take my bride to Olive Garden,
Despite thy certain coming proud reproach.

Spaghetti cooked with shrimp and lardon,
Alfredo, cheese, a glass of pinot gris:
With these our arteries we'll harden
And pay no single passing thought to thee.

Miserable people, the both of you.

[kphoger]

Well, I don't actually know if that's where we'll go for our date.  We had planned a different restaurant for a lunch date, but there's a schedule conflict so we switched it to supper instead.  Our lunch date restaurant pick is too expensive for dinner, but we haven't yet decided where to go instead.

I just wanted to rhyme as many words with "Olive Garden" as I could.  And I don't really see how I could do that without addressing the poem to you.

[Scott5114]

Someone want to dig up "For Every Christopher Bebop Martin" or whatever those ridiculous signs in Miami said?

[formulanone]

Someone want to dig up "For Every Christopher Bebop Martin" or whatever those ridiculous signs in Miami said?

[paulthemapguy]

This forum is 80% pointless arguments about nomenclature (in before someone corrects me and says it's 78.9%).

This thread idea about names of things was doomed from the start.

[mrsman]

Someone want to dig up "For Every Christopher Bebop Martin" or whatever those ridiculous signs in Miami said?

Can someone explain to me how it is at all beneficial to rename a street to honor three separate people, as opposed to renaming three separate streets to honor those three separate people?

Raymond Ray Britton (who was a WWII veteran)
Carrie P. Meek (Congresswoman)
Dr. T. Stewart Greer (Interim superintendent of public school system)

[I-35]

This hot garbage?

[kphoger]

This hot garbage?

blech!  At least I see that the street blades call it by its more sensible alternate name:  Arthur Gardner Hwy.

[SEWIGuy]

This hot garbage?

I actually kind of love this is a ironic way.

[kphoger]

I actually kind of love this is a ironic way.

Because a bypass encourages drivers to avoid the businesses that the Chamber represents?

[webny99]

It's also unclear whether Greater Hazleton is a part of the road name or a separate destination reached via this exit.

A good example of the latter: https://maps.app.goo.gl/DemBmxt94XMK8puf9

[kphoger]

It's also unclear whether Greater Hazleton is a part of the road name or a separate destination reached via this exit.

It's part of the road name:  https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/US/PDF/2003/0/0066..PDF

[Rothman]

It's also unclear whether Greater Hazleton is a part of the road name or a separate destination reached via this exit.

Another example of the latter: https://maps.app.goo.gl/DemBmxt94XMK8puf9

Meh.  Nah.  Lots of signage on I-81 letting you know it's one of the exits to get you to Hazleton.

[webny99]

I will also nominate Fairport Nine Mile Point Road (NY 250). Yes, it has a big number of letters (25, to be exact), but stick with me on this one; the word "nine" is the second-highest number spelled out in word form in any road name outside of a numbered street system. Ten-Ten Rd south of Raleigh is the highest, and anything higher than ten is either written in numeral form or grammatically incorrect.

[webny99]

It's also unclear whether Greater Hazleton is a part of the road name or a separate destination reached via this exit.

Another example of the latter: https://maps.app.goo.gl/DemBmxt94XMK8puf9

Meh.  Nah.  Lots of signage on I-81 letting you know it's one of the exits to get you to Hazleton.

Sure, but it is still ambiguous to the average passerby.

[SEWIGuy]

I actually kind of love this is a ironic way.

Because a bypass encourages drivers to avoid the businesses that the Chamber represents?

That and just because its so delightfully absurd.

[1995hoo]

Ben C. Pratt Six Mile Cypress Parkway in Fort Myers is 30 letters, not counting the period after "C."

[mgk920]

Someone want to dig up "For Every Christopher Bebop Martin" or whatever those ridiculous signs in Miami said?

Can someone explain to me how it is at all beneficial to rename a street to honor three separate people, as opposed to renaming three separate streets to honor those three separate people?

Raymond Ray Britton (who was a WWII veteran)
Carrie P. Meek (Congresswoman)
Dr. T. Stewart Greer (Interim superintendent of public school system)

Also, when was it considered to be advantageous to use the honorees' full names rater than just their simple last names?

Mike

[elsmere241]

I will also nominate Fairport Nine Mile Point Road (NY 250). Yes, it has a big number of letters (25, to be exact), but stick with me on this one; the word "nine" is the second-highest number spelled out in word form in any road name outside of a numbered street system. Ten-Ten Rd south of Raleigh is the highest, and anything higher than ten is either written in numeral form or grammatically incorrect.

It got its name because its state number is 1010.  I think the sign on US 64 calls it "Ten Ten", but when you get off 64 on the Apex side, it's signed Center Street because that's Apex's name for it.  Cary signs it "SR 1010" last I checked.