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Title: The seven-word name of Sydney's new airport
Post by Bam on Mar 4^th, 2019 at 3:31pm

Here it is: Western Sydney International Nancy-Bird Walton Airport. While the choice to name the airport after this Aviation pioneer is commendable, the name itself is too long.

How long before it get shortened to Walton Airport?

Title: Re: The seven-word name of Sydney's new airport
Post by Bias_2012 on Mar 4^th, 2019 at 5:36pm

"Walton" was her husband's sir name, so to shorten it, it would have to be "Nancy Bird" International Airport

Title: Re: The seven-word name of Sydney's new airport
Post by Ye Grappler on Mar 24^th, 2019 at 1:34pm

Bird Dropping Airport?

Title: Re: The seven-word name of Sydney's new airport
Post by Gordon on Mar 24^th, 2019 at 1:55pm

Hopefully I can pick flights that depart/arrive at KS, I'LL br happy.

Title: Re: The seven-word name of Sydney's new airport
Post by Laugh till you cry on Mar 24^th, 2019 at 2:12pm

What about the Yadda-Gordon-Grappler Islamophobe hate airport?

Apologies to The Mechanic whose dick is shorter than his name.

Title: Re: The seven-word name of Sydney's new airport
Post by Frank on Mar 24^th, 2019 at 5:37pm

Bias_2012 wrote on Mar 4^th, 2019 at 5:36pm:

"Walton" was her husband's sir name, so to shorten it, it would have to be "Nancy Bird" International Airport

Almost every woman's name is her father's or husband's. Patriarchy :D

Nancy Bird sounds like a piss-take name for a Sydney airport. Perpetual Mardi Gras.
And people would take Bird to be her surname.

Title: Re: The seven-word name of Sydney's new airport
Post by Bias_2012 on Mar 25^th, 2019 at 9:41pm

Frank wrote on Mar 24^th, 2019 at 5:37pm:

And people would take Bird to be her surname.

It is her surname, her maiden name

But I wasn't suggesting the airport should be just Nancy Bird Airport, only that if her long name was shortened to just "Walton", that would be the wrong name, that's her husbands surname, and the airport is not being named after Charles Walton

There'd be a hundred names we could think of but if they insist on Nancy's name then I think there'd be nothing wrong using "Walton" but with "Nancy" in front of it. So then, Nancy Walton International Airport would be OK by me

The bludgers could have surveyed the NSW public with a list of names to choose from, but they have their quotas of women in everything these days, so it sounds like a lefty progressive political choice to me

Western Sydney International Airport might have sufficed

Title: Re: The seven-word name of Sydney's new airport
Post by Ye Grappler on Mar 26^th, 2019 at 6:26pm

Laugh till you cry wrote on Mar 24^th, 2019 at 2:12pm:

~~What about the Yadda-Gordon-Grappler Islamophobe hate airport?~~

~~Apologies to The Mechanic whose dick is shorter than his name~~.

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