Sprawl language

[Tosspot]

"ball pork"

Ball pork– a stadium built with public funds for the use of a privately-owned ball team

Quite appropos in light of recent events.

[Thaine]

"ball pork"
Quite appropos in light of recent events.

Thought that one was just going to slide by without a mention

[Gladstoner]

Informal formal - A half-assed attempt at formal design. Often used in architecture (you all know some examples) and landscaping (eg. boxed-off shrubs just don't work when the overall design sucks). Typically occurs in suburbia; urban examples are sometimes called 'funky', 'eclectic', or 'trendy'. See also: design abortion, white trash, trailer trash.

[kc-bcn]

Stuff like this makes me think English is the richest language on earth. It cranks out new words at an absolutely mind-boggling rate.

[chingon]

See also: design abortion, white trash, trailer trash.

glad you could find the opportunity to casually slip the last acceptable racial epithet in our culture into an internet thread about urban sprawl neologisms.  you should be proud of yourself.

[mean]

You mean I can't call Mexicans "Beaner" anymore? Does that apply to Mexicans too? I'll have to call Victor and Pedro and tell them, they'll be aghast!

[Gladstoner]

glad you could find the opportunity to casually slip the last acceptable racial epithet in our culture into an internet thread about urban sprawl neologisms.  you should be proud of yourself.

glad you could find the opportunity to casually slip one of the last acceptable forms of slander in our culture into an internet thread about urban sprawl neologisms.  you should be proud of yourself.

[nota]

Overpriced tenements=DT lofts

[chingon]

i think you should look up "slander". 

[Gladstoner]

i think you should look up "slander". 

Ok........

Yep. Pretty much what I thought.

Thank you.

[Sloopy]

i really love "litter on a stick"... as i was driving through rural kansas this weekend (US 69, 169 and 400), it's amazing how few billboards there are in kansas. quite a welcome change of pace compared to the onslaught of XXX, ozarkland, and mizzou crap that lines I-70.

Ain't it Awful!  My God, MO legislators love billboards, don't they? Billboard industry owns this state. It's a real shock when you go up to MN for a couple of weeks, then drive down through IA and into MO.  Not many in IA, but when you hit MO the billoards are a real shock.  Visual Rape.

[aknowledgeableperson]

trailer trash.

It is kinda funny that most people associate trailers with rural areas.  Guess they haven't seen the magnificant trailer parks in the city along 40 highway and in the area of 350 highway and I-435.

[chrizow]

for every urban trailer park, there are 50 rural ones. 

there's a nice big one off 40 hwy near The Cliffs/470. 

[Gladstoner]

Trailer parks should be strategically placed around the metro to keep tornadoes from tracking into the city.