How embarrassing

The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websitemod to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world – 995 points –
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But look at how many people named after airports (and grade schools) became president. It's like a shortcut to success.

Harold Holt was an Australian PM who disappeared at sea, presumably drowned.

We named a pool after him

I don't live in the USA, but isn't that a spaceport?

John F Kennedy International is an airport in New York City

There are many buildings that Kennedy is named for.

You mean the one next to terraformed Mars?

I share a name with a local airport. It's pretty embarrassing.

That's nothing to be embarrassed about, La Guardia.

Which is probably the worst airport in New York. But I'm always fascinated by the name.

For who doesn't know, it can be translated as "the guardian" or "the guarding".

I'm sorry to hear that Salt Lake City International Airport. Who calls their kid that? It's just cruel.

They did the same with Ronald Reagan!

They named him "National"?

Yes. His name was President Ronald Reagan National Airport.

Oh, the airport is just named "National". I think the rest is a typo.

I always wondered why they decided to honor the memory of John Wayne Gacy by naming an airport after him.

I live near that airport and it fucking sucks,crazy traffic and the airtrain goes to my subwau stop so I have to deal with tourists if i want to take the e train