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Group Hopes to Rename Street After Douglas Adams
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."
Is this the first story to feature a period at the end of the title?
Call the intersection at 6th and 9th 42.
Adams was pretty famous for his environmental activism, in particular campaigning on behalf of endangered species. There's more info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams#Environmental_activism
The point they're trying to make is that by renaming the street in his honour, they are both showing respect to the man and what he stood for.
...another group has started preliminary paperwork to have 23rd renamed "Illuminatus", and a Prostitute Action Group are to rename 68th "We'll Owe You One".
Operation Guillotine is in effect.
Actually Matt Groening is from Portland,OR and many of the Simpsons character are named after streets in Portland.
I would strongly recommend not clicking that.
No doubt being in America they're going to try and call it Doglas Adams or some other such vowel-mangling.
-1 not first post
Kind of like German cities where half of the streets are named "Einbahnstraße" and there are directions to it everwhere!
Or rename ALL the streets to "DON'T PANIC". I think that might be more like him. xD
One of the many changes involved in the paperwork is actually that a residential area will be bulldozed to make way for a highway overpass to the new Douglas Adams Avenue.