co-op naming
Mar. 21st, 2005 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nibotSo we need a name for our dear nascient ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif){kind=small}
rochester_coop! We have a few ideas but nothing really awesome. I think a name of the form [Cool Sounding Noun] Co-op/Cooperative/Collective would be great, like Robot Co-op or Oktogon Co-op or something. Or a cool animal. Or a historial person who is awesome. Or a neat foreign metro station. Or some kind of literary allusion. Ideas? We want to decide on a name for this thing tomorrow. Any/all suggestions would be appreciated. (-: Maybe our mission will be suggestive.
Unfortunately Livejournal will only record your most recent answer to this. So if you have more than one suggestion (I hope so!) then you'll have to write them in a comment.
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Date: 2005-03-22 04:02 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-03-22 06:15 am (UTC)Owl Farm Collective, in memory of the late Hunter S. Thompson.
cool names that already exist
Date: 2005-03-22 06:32 am (UTC)Lothlorien
Lorax Manor
Chrysalis Co-op
Masala Community Housing
Helios
Avalon
Sunflower Co-op (Kansas)
Greenfire Co-op
Rivendell Cooperative
Stone Soup (Chicago)
Fort Awesome (Berkeley)
Re: cool names that already exist
Date: 2005-03-22 08:47 am (UTC)so gross. loth? rivendell?
surely you can make up your own made up names...
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Date: 2005-03-22 05:27 am (UTC)PH for short. ;)
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Date: 2005-03-22 05:29 am (UTC)The Poo Co-operative
Or the Pooh Co-operative
"My House"
"Our House"
"Compound Co-op"
Experi-co-op
Poo Co-operative
Date: 2005-03-22 06:21 am (UTC)Re: Poo Co-operative
Date: 2005-03-22 06:25 am (UTC)free association.
Doesn't necessarily come up with the most savory of things.
Though Pooh Co-operative would be warm, fuzzy, and innocent. :)
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Date: 2005-03-22 08:20 am (UTC)http://home.twcny.rr.com/allenz/forest.htm
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Date: 2005-03-22 03:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-22 04:32 pm (UTC)Samara House
Cypress
Cactus
Eucalyptus
Darjeeling
Pome
Fern
Lime
Apian Co-op (although not really plant, but bee!)
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Date: 2005-03-22 03:24 pm (UTC)The Gilligan Co-op
Cast-Away Collective
The Bucky Collective / Bucky House
Fuddnudler House
Ham-ikka-Schnim-ikka-Schnam-ikka-Schnopp Cooperative
Jeronimo House
Saffron House
**The Orange Chicken Collective** Yum!
The Red Curry House
Sexy Cooperative
Nut House
Cookie Monster Collective
The Pea Pod
Space Pod
The Decompression Chamber
Vacuum Collective
Any name from the list of Dr. Seuss characters: http://www.primate.wisc.edu/people/hamel/seuss.html
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Date: 2005-03-22 05:47 pm (UTC)which suggestions do you count as "obscure references"?
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Date: 2005-03-22 09:31 pm (UTC)I think that's true to some extent, but also that it can be a power used for good and for awesome, if the thing you find has the right connotation. Oscar Wilde House has very little to do with Oscar Wilde, except that he was gay (and full of wit!). Lothlorian (also in Berkeley) has nothing really to do with Tolkien except that the residents are sometimes referred to as elves (in the same way that there are Cloyne Clones, Ridge Ridglings, Wildebeasts (!), ...); it's the vegetarian theme house and they have a treehouse. The names serve as a sort of lite theme that gives everyone something to rally around, but it certainly doesn't dominate the spirit of the place.
Feynmen, Rivendell, Ant Farm
Well, I don't think anything having to do with Feynman is appropriate unless we want to have something to do with one of the awesomest physicists of the 20th century—which, you're right, probably isn't appropriate. But Rivendell is a fairly harmless Tolkien reference, and Tolkien is hardly "obscure." I'm very fond of the Ant Farm idea, but I don't intend to force it upon this co-op. I think Ant Farm is an awesome name because of the image of a bunch of people living in a social colony like ants, but also because there was a group that I think was very awesome during the 70's that went by that name. Were we to have a theme resembling in any way what Ant Farm did, I think it would be great to be Ant Farm II. I would love to start Ant Farm II, but this co-op is probably not it.
f you call your co-op lothlorian, outsiders will think of RPGs and elves before anything else.
Isn't that true of anything? Red Octopus? I think of a Soviet sea monster.
I think literary references are great because they can convey a vague idea without being too specific. Maybe I also like the idea of adopting a faux sense of history from the get-go. Whatever the house is named, though, it will develop its own traditions and its own history. All of the houses in Berkeley have their own characters which have developed organically; the three that have chartered "themes" (lgbt, vegetarian, afro-american) are merely suggestive. I like the idea of a theme and I think we have one, even though we haven't quite figured out how to put it into words.
I'm fine with a "random" name too, though. I could warm up to "Red Octopus" but at the moment I think it sounds weird. Its main redeaming qualities are that Octopi are kind of cool, and it has the initials ROC. Red Mouse has neither feature. We should move beyond Color*Animal names I think.
What do you think of the local native plant idea?
I thought Sam Patch Collective was pretty cool.
EcoHouse's name is, of course, perfect: their theme (Eco*) and what they are (House) rolled into a single word.
I do think we should come up with two names: one for the corporation and one for the house itself. It's only the corporation we need to name ASAP.
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Date: 2005-03-22 09:36 pm (UTC)Also, while we don't want to confuse outsiders too much, I think it's more important what the members think of the name, i.e. that it is a sort of touchstone for what they're all about.
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Date: 2005-03-23 11:34 pm (UTC)red octopus is much better than the other stuff.
soviet sea monsters, while quite an image, isn't an image sullied by the drudgery of others. like lothlorien and rpg-ers.
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Date: 2005-03-23 03:26 am (UTC)In regards to naming the coop something that would tie it to the area:
-Above someone mentioned plant names. The Lilac Coop might be worth considering, or even just something so simple as Flower City Coop.
-I've previously suggested The Sam Patch Coop. You can read a little about his life here (http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/kostoff24.html). In short, he was a famous daredevil who came to the area to jump from the Genesee falls. He did successfully, once. It was his second jump, however, that secured his name in local history. In Rochester facing unfavorable odds, at the edge of falls, I like to view our coop in these terms. If we don't surface at the bottom, at least we've done something worth remembering. If our efforts amount to nothing, I hope for it to be a spectacle on the way down. A brilliant failure. [Conflict: 'Sam Patch' is already used as the name for a boat tour on the Erie canal. Shouldn't be a huge problem though, I'm sure there are plenty of variations that would work. Patch's Leap, for instance.]
-I like the idea of something along the lines of New Carthage Coop. Carthage was an early competitor to Rochester, its residents hoping to overtake Rochester as the most important settlement in this area. They were well on their way when tragedy struck. The pride of Carthage had been their bridge spanning the Genesee river. It connected them to the Erie canal by way of train. When the bridge fell, so did Carthage. Unable to compete with Rochester, it was eventually absorbed. The settlement's tragic end isn't why it appeals to me. Instead I'm drawn to the idea of Carthage's revenge.
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Date: 2005-03-23 05:01 am (UTC)House dedicated to the dishevealment of physicists
High End Co-op Kangaroo Heck
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Date: 2005-03-23 07:36 am (UTC)Use the name of the street on which the house is located...unless located on Broad or Main.
Creative Commons...although I think that name is being used by a copyright nonprofit. Maybe just The Commons.
Bounty House...or just Bounty for short.
Hmmm...it will probably be more apparent once you find the house itself.
i've given this great thought.
Date: 2005-03-23 10:47 am (UTC)Cheshire (like the cat) coop
Ringo (from the Beatles) coop
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Date: 2005-03-24 04:07 am (UTC)Ant Farm
and my personal favorite The Collective
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Date: 2005-04-15 07:52 pm (UTC)or maybe "Mike"..
i like steve the best.