What's in a name?

[MrGongGong]

Love your business card MrGG!!

very good

I was once devising a piece in a primary school and do have a large collection of gongs and bells of different types
so remember saying that
"we will have a gong start and a bell end" ............ with no response at all from the 9 year olds but the orchestral player I was with found it hard to breathe

Here's yours

[jean]

As for the renaming of Volgagrad, perhaps it doesn't matter as much as we might think. Stalingrad is known to most people from the terrific struggle in WW2 - not for its connexion with Stalin's name. It is that that would be remembered, I guess, and I doubt that anyone would suggest that it were done out of homage to Stalin.

Shostakovich's symphony is still the Leningrad, even though the city itself has reverted to St Petersburg.

[salymap]

In Chislehurst near me there is a Prick End Pond. Also a Lane of the same name. No need for tuk-tuks it's on the maps of the area.

[gurnemanz]

As for the renaming of Volgagrad, perhaps it doesn't matter as much as we might think. Stalingrad is known to most people from the terrific struggle in WW2 - not for its connexion with Stalin's name. It is that that would be remembered, I guess, and I doubt that anyone would suggest that it were done out of homage to Stalin.

One might have thought that but the Indie article I linked to above suggests otherwise:

"In addition to affection for the city’s old name, there is also nostalgia for Joseph Stalin himself, especially among the older generation. Behind the Mother Russia memorial is a museum dedicated to the wartime leader. No Soviet hangover, it was opened just six years ago by a local businessman (who was later shot in a contract killing), and features biographical data and a life-size waxwork of Stalin. On sale in the shop are Stalin calendars with soft-focus photographs of the Generalissimus in various modes: pensive, jovial, warrior-like."

[Beef Oven]

very good

I was once devising a piece in a primary school and do have a large collection of gongs and bells of different types
so remember saying that
"we will have a gong start and a bell end" ............ with no response at all from the 9 year olds but the orchestral player I was with found it hard to breathe

Here's yours

No response from the 9 year-olds? Good.

I accosted a group of ten year-olds who I found tresspassing in my garden and I demanded to know who had left a condom on my patio. What's a patio they asked

[Angle]

Meanwhile, at Dobcross in Saddleworth, a sign on the A6052, low on the wall reads, "NICKER BROW leading to LOWER FIELDS".