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Group Hopes to Rename Street After Douglas Adams

Posted by Zonk on from the will-go-well-with-the-simpsons-motif dept.

interstellar_donkey writes "Despite the recent brouhaha over the renaming of 4th Ave after César Chávez, a Portland group is pushing to rename a local street after the late writer Douglas Adams. The street? Why, 42nd Ave, of course. According to their website, the renaming will reflect Portlanders' commitment to the arts, respect for the environment, desire to provide technological access to all, their passion to further education to all people, and most importantly remind Portlanders DON'T PANIC. This appears to be a serious movement, with preliminary paperwork already in the works."

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  1. Re:Holy Crap! by PopeRatzo · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Is this the first story to feature a period at the end of the title?
    Maybe, but it's definitely the first article I've seen (this week) that as far as I can tell has no reason to have been offered to us in the first place.

    I'm not a Slashdot historian. Can anyone tell me why we are able to moderate each other's comments but not the stories themselves? Or is that too diggly?

    Yeah, maybe it is. Now that I think of it, the editors are usually pretty reliable. And I don't really see that many clunkers. But a story telling me that some burg named a street after a second-rate writer of books "for younger readers"? Next we'll be hearing that CmdrTaco named his cat "Cory Doctorow".
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