What to Call the Arena?

[LGR4GM]

I call BS.  What does this person know about art?  Why should he/she have the right to start putting names on museums?  Can this person even paint?

Yea! Why is Kim Pegula going to NFL meetings. What has she done to earn that right?  She doesn't even play football!

 

 

 

;)

Edited September 23, 2016 by LGR4GM

[Eleven]

Feel like I need an emoji or backward-slash stage direction  for guidance here.

 

Really?

 

Good for AKG to get that donation.

[SwampD]

They are renaming the Albright-Knox too.

 

Is this what old feels like? I'm starting to dislike change.

Wait 'til they start renaming halls at your college to the professors that you had. Then you're old.

[sabills]

I call BS.  What does this person know about art?  Why should he/she have the right to start putting names on museums?  Can this person even paint?

Besides, most of the collection at the Albright Knox is MODERN art, not REAL art, which as we all know is paintings of landscapes and horses AND THAT IS IT.

[That Aud Smell]

Really?

 

Good for AKG to get that donation.

 

Sorry, man. It was pretty subtle. Also, I had a beer with lunch. 16 ounces.

[Stoner]

Yea! Why is Kim Pegula going to NFL meetings. What has she done to earn that right?  She doesn't even play football!

 

 

 

;)

Actually I think the two situations dovetail nicely and raise essentially the same question. What does being rich give you the right to do?

[LGR4GM]

Actually I think the two situations dovetail nicely and raise essentially the same question. What does being rich give you the right to do?

You can donate money so people name ###### after you

Edited September 23, 2016 by LGR4GM

[That Aud Smell]

What does being rich give you the right to do?

 

Money gives you whatever rights and privileges you can thereby acquire.

 

It also, I'm told, gives you mo' problems.

[LGR4GM]

Money gives you whatever rights and privileges you can thereby acquire.

 

It also, I'm told, gives you mo' problems.

seems oddly specific...

 

Edited September 23, 2016 by LGR4GM

[Stoner]

 

The New York State Theater at Lincoln Center became the David H. Koch Theater in 2008, when Mr. Koch, the oil-and-gas billionaire, contributed $100 million toward its renovation. That same year, the New York Public Library’s flagship on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street was named for Stephen A. Schwarzman, a Wall Street financier who donated $100 million toward that building’s expansion.

From a story about how Avery Fisher Hall at the Lincoln Center has been renamed David Geffen Hall after Geffen's $100 million donation. The Fisher Family got $15 million to agree to the name change.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/arts/music/lincoln-center-to-rename-avery-fisher-hall.html?_r=0

[ubkev]

Wait 'til they start renaming halls at your college to the professors that you had. Then you're old.

To be perfectly honest, I don't think I could tell you 3 of my professors names.

[Weave]

From a story about how Avery Fisher Hall at the Lincoln Center has been renamed David Geffen Hall after Geffen's $100 million donation. The Fisher Family got $15 million to agree to the name change.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/arts/music/lincoln-center-to-rename-avery-fisher-hall.html?_r=0

 

So wish something desirable had my name on it.

[darksabre]

Besides, most of the collection at the Albright Knox is MODERN art, not REAL art, which as we all know is paintings of landscapes and horses AND THAT IS IT.

:lol:

[3putt]

The Sabres play in the Aud. That is all I know.

[Kristian]

Call me old-fashioned, but I really miss the days where arenas would have actual names, like the Aud, the Joe Louis Arena, Maple Leaf Gardens, etc.

[Eleven]

Call me old-fashioned, but I really miss the days where arenas would have actual names, like the Aud, the Joe Louis Arena, Maple Leaf Gardens, etc.

 

You're gonna love the uniform ads.

[Stoner]

Call me old-fashioned, but I really miss the days where arenas would have actual names, like the Aud, the Joe Louis Arena, Maple Leaf Gardens, etc.

Corporations are people now. Rich people can buy and own anything. They've earned it, after all.

[LTS]

Actually I think the two situations dovetail nicely and raise essentially the same question. What does being rich give you the right to do?

 

It doesn't give you any more rights than anyone else.  You could donate $20 to the museum and ask for them to change the name.  Clearly, being rich does improve the odds of others acting more favorably to your requests.  However, there is no change in their rights.

[SwampD]

Corporations are people now. Rich people can buy and own anything. They've earned it, after all.

I miss the the days when it was Rich stadium, oh, wait.

 

I once played at Carnegie Hall, too. That was cool,… oh, wait.

[Stoner]

I miss the the days when it was Rich stadium, oh, wait.

 

I once played at Carnegie Hall, too. That was cool,… oh, wait.

I see what you did there.

[Eleven]

I see what you did there.

Hey, sometimes rich people name themselves after buildings, instead. Look at the Windsors.

[Drunkard]

I think one of the local funeral homes should buy the stadium rights so everyone can say they're going to the morgue.

 

Right? Right?!

 

#dumpandchase

 

#don'tdisturbchetandmuffy

 

#hashtagsarestupid

Edited September 26, 2016 by Drunkard

[woods-racer]

The Sabres play in the Aud. That is all I know.

Same here.

 

Say the *Aud* in a conversation and no one will correct you half way through the conversation.

[That Aud Smell]

Corporations are people now. Rich people can buy and own anything. They've earned it, after all.

 

It remains unclear to me what the point of this gripe is (I mean, beyond griping that rich people can buy stuff and do with it as they please - including stuff near and dear to our hearts).

[spndnchz]

Corporations are people now. Rich people can buy and own anything. They've earned it, after all.

 

Yeah. the owner of the Oilers just got their first mascot named after him. :doh: