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The residents of Hooker Lane (in Greenwich, Connecticut) want to change the name of their street.
"GREENWICH, Conn., Oct. 18 - Those who walk the street on Hooker Lane here in the Cos Cob section of town are people of the L. L. Bean-wearing, exercise-the-dog sort, and they're tired of the giggles and the borscht belt zingers that follow the mere mention of their address.
Tired of the endless jokes, some residents of Greenwich, Conn., are petitioning to change the name of 'Hooker Lane'.
'When you order something from a catalog, for example, and you give the street, there's snickering, always snickering,' said Nick Kopeloff, 66, a retired physician and an avid photographer, who has endured 27 years of such reactions."
The new name of the street will be "Stonebrook Lane", chosen from a list of over 30 names which, "The New York Times" dubs "all as bland as vanilla pudding".
Article from, "The New York Times"
Deborah
"GREENWICH, Conn., Oct. 18 - Those who walk the street on Hooker Lane here in the Cos Cob section of town are people of the L. L. Bean-wearing, exercise-the-dog sort, and they're tired of the giggles and the borscht belt zingers that follow the mere mention of their address.
Tired of the endless jokes, some residents of Greenwich, Conn., are petitioning to change the name of 'Hooker Lane'.
'When you order something from a catalog, for example, and you give the street, there's snickering, always snickering,' said Nick Kopeloff, 66, a retired physician and an avid photographer, who has endured 27 years of such reactions."
The new name of the street will be "Stonebrook Lane", chosen from a list of over 30 names which, "The New York Times" dubs "all as bland as vanilla pudding".
Article from, "The New York Times"
Deborah