Efforts to Rename Brady Arts District

[Markk]

The renaming has already been chosen to Burlington as per the proposal.

Thanks for your humorless reply. 

[Hoss]

Thanks for your humorless reply. 

Thank you.  I aim to please.

[Markk]

In that case, we should both be disappointed.

[Red Arrow]

Thank you.  I aim to please.

Reminds me of a sign in a men's room:

We aim to please, your aim will help.

[dbacksfan 2.0]

If it gets renamed, I suggest Burns Ave., after perennial candidate Accountability Burns, a/k/a E5, leader of the MARS EARS project, and whose skill at phonetic spelling is unmatched in this world or any other.

I vote for Baker. You know, "Hamp Baker says 'Drive with care' ".  (Had to edit, had "you'll get there faster" which wasn't painted on the car hoods, unless it was ones that had been changed to "Drive like he11, you'll get there faster.")

[Tulsa Zephyr]

http://www.tulsaworld.com/article.aspx/City_Council_OKs_compromise_on_Brady_Street_name/20130816_11_A1_CUTLIN698639

From Tate Brady to Matthew Brady...Good job...Now let's get on with it...

[Gaspar]

You know this won't be good enough, right?

[Hoss]

You know this won't be good enough, right?

How about we let it play out first before making an assumption...

[swake]

I think this is a good compromise.

[AquaMan]

Everybody thinks they won. The definition of a good compromise.

The real winners:

Bartlett. He spoke up but didn't really take sides. Taylor was strangely quiet.
Brady businesses. Still Brady.
Henderson. Face saved. Constituents get some money for the memorial, some notoriety for our racist past and some vengeance.
This Land Press. Hey, look at us! We dug up some mud, threw it around and came out without a scratch! That's journalism, eh?
Lakin. What would he have done? We'll never know.
Ewing. Genius compromise and visibility for his next step up.
Tulsa. We can move on now.

Some losers:
Anything named after controversial figures from our past.

[TulsaRufnex]

I dunno.  It wouldn't hurt my feelings if we renamed it the "Tulsa Arts District"...
Maybe just in the district rename Brady St, "Artists Street."  Wouldn't start with the letter "B" but it would stack up nicely with "Archer" to the south and "Cameron Street" to the north...
Since I live on West Brady Street, it'd be a pretty big hassle to change all my checking, credit cards, bills, etc... and I guess we'd need to change Brady Heights too...

Compromise solution:  name the district after "Wayne Brady"... or would that be cheating?

Okay.  I called it (or at least was closest)... what did I win?   

[rdj]

Everybody thinks they won. The definition of a good compromise.

The real winners:

Bartlett. He spoke up but didn't really take sides. Taylor was strangely quiet.
Brady businesses. Still Brady.
Henderson. Face saved. Constituents get some money for the memorial, some notoriety for our racist past and some vengeance.
This Land Press. Hey, look at us! We dug up some mud, threw it around and came out without a scratch! That's journalism, eh?
Lakin. What would he have done? We'll never know.
Ewing. Genius compromise and visibility for his next step up.
Tulsa. We can move on now.

Some losers:
Anything named after controversial figures from our past.

Was this Blake's idea?

[AquaMan]

As per Tulsa World, "The name change was offered by Councilor Blake Ewing as an amendment to Councilor Jack Henderson's proposal..."

Patrick says he was the originator of the idea yet it wasn't his amendment. A hundred years from now Ewing will be the good guy in publications resurrecting the issue.

[DolfanBob]

Wayne Brady. The whitest Black man I know of.  
A close second would be Nick Cannon.

[DTowner]

As per Tulsa World, "The name change was offered by Councilor Blake Ewing as an amendment to Councilor Jack Henderson's proposal..."

Patrick says he was the originator of the idea yet it wasn't his amendment. A hundred years from now Ewing will be the good guy in publications resurrecting the issue.

I get the impression Ewing and Lakin cooked up this compromise.