A Roach Trap By Any Other Name...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/03/AR2006030302098.html

I can certainly sympathize with developers and realtors trying to rouse Generations X, Y and Z from their slumbers long enough to pay outrageous gobs of money for living spaces normally associated with the dimensions of broom closets. But I feel that the names listed here were just a little too blase, a bit too obvious, and not quite correctly targeted at their market. I offer my own, humble, suggestions for catching the eye, and the bulging wallets, of the hip:

1. Smells Like Teen Condo

2. Pretty Hate Apartment

3. Snoop Studi Studio

4. Rage Against The Lofts

5. The Development Formerly Known As Prince

Of course, out here in the suburbs we have a similar naming problem. Vast swaths of souless housing tracts are now absurdly named after the farms and meadows they replaced, combining irony and mockery in equal measure. A more accurate description of many of these places would be "Feral Cat Acres" or "Route 50 Watershed". And anything within ten miles of Alexandria is now marketed as part of "Olde Towne" and given a pseudo colonial name. Given the rush to use up every name from that era and the general lack of historical education, I look forward to soon seeing "Benedict Arnold Mews" or "Ye Olde Tarleton's Massacre Pit". Meanwhile, I shall retire to the vast grounds and haunted towers of stately Blau Manor...