"The Lehi City Council has renamed Morning Glory Road after a technology company planning to relocate to the street raised concerns about the name's sexual connotation." [Daily Herald]

  • http://weirdly.net Jacob Ewing

    Oh those dirty, dirty flowers.  Crawling around all over the place and opening up their reproductive organs for the world to see every morning.

    • http://weirdly.net Jacob Ewing

      Hah – I only just now got the “After beef raised” joke.  Call me naive.

      • Antinous / Moderator

        Get the pork out of government!

  • http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby

    How twee.

  • GawainLavers

    In other news, plant species to be exterminated to save our children.

  • Jorpho

    The technology company will surely take umbrage to the unfavorable associations of the replacement name, “Morning Vista”, and subsequently insist on a change to “Morning Seven”.

  • http://instantaneousinstances.com/ Spieguh

    I hope the new name, “Nocturnal Emissions Boulevard,” is less scandalous for them. 

    • Antinous / Moderator

      Shouldn’t that be Boulevard of Wet Dreams?

  • http://twitter.com/amanicdroid Dr. Chronobiologist

    For those of us more sheltered types:

    To awaken with a boner so hard a cat couldn’t scratch it , otherwise known as to sleep in a tent, or to have a dawn horn.
    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=morning%20glory

    • http://twitter.com/amanicdroid Dr. Chronobiologist

      Or perhaps less sheltered. We just called it “waking up with a boner”. No need for euphemism.

    • SamSam

      Errr… have you tested this cat scratching thing?

      • http://twitter.com/amanicdroid Dr. Chronobiologist

        You would need to address this question to the original author as I would not allow a cat near my penis in either a turgid or flaccid state.

  • k0an

    Rob, excellent title.

  • Russell Letson

    Somebody somewhere once pointed out that any string of syllables can be given a sexual meaning. KnowwhatImean? Wink wink, nudge nudge. Saynomore. Say. No. More.

    • DreamboatSkanky

      That’s pretty racy.  My children read this site, dude!

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1634691682 Bruce Padget

      In my sophomore year, my three roommates and I proved this daily.  After a couple of months we declared a truce, because it had become impossible to hold any conversation.  

      • miasm

        Pipe down and I’ll let you hold MY conversation.

  • http://twitter.com/fossilfuels Funk Daddy

    What is wrong with a street name that indicates they are ready to go, early, each and every day? Or a flower?

    • DreamboatSkanky

      Because “road” could be construed to be “rode”, which in turn can be used as a sexual innuendo.  They’ll probably change it to the more innocuous “Morning Glory Strip that Things Go Back and Forth On”.

  • kongjie

    The other day my spouse wrote some copy that used the words “happy ending” in a non-massage-related context. Some people were offended. So no more happy endings, for anyone, anymore.

    • Mongrove_Moone

      In the early 90s I worked for Friendly’s Ice Cream (a US restaurant franchise on the east coast, somewhat famous – deservedly so IMO – for their ice cream). Their generic ice cream dessert was called a Happy Ending. It was one scoop of vanilla ice cream in a bowl, chocolate sauce, whipped cream, and half a maraschino cherry on top. It was surprisingly good.

      Sadly, I can’t imagine it still has the same name.

      • SomeGuyNamedMark

        It is still called a “Happy Ending”.  At least Friendly’s didn’t cave over the slightest giggle.  I like telling people that I got a happy ending with my meal.

        • Preston Sturges

          Except it now costs $75

          • SomeGuyNamedMark

            They don’t list that entree on the menu.

        • Antinous / Moderator

          In the personals, a “friendly” person is often seeking a “generous” person, so they have their own name issues.

  • SomeGuyNamedMark

    A bit of a stretch to say this is common enough knowledge to make changing the name an issue.  Now if it was name “Morning Wood Road” I could understand.

    • http://benjscott.com thunderhammer

      More like Mourning Wood.  That’s what I would name a forest if anyone ever put me in charge of these sorts of things.

  • eris_kallisti

    What a bunch of overly-sensitive weenies.

    Whelp, off to Urban Dictionary to create an entry for “Exactware“

    • GawainLavers

      Exactware: a cast of one’s own genitals, used for self stimulation.  A union of narcisissm and Ouroboros requiring much less flexibility.

  • Tribune

    and was the new name “Santorum Road”?

    • Preston Sturges

      Just past the intersection of Morning Glory Road and Hershey Highway. 

  • http://evilbobdayjob.blogspot.com/ Deidzoeb

    Graduates of Arcadia University, formerly Beaver College.

  • Antinous / Moderator

    Let’s start referring to double penetration as a “Washington”.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_S3G5F3AAJFS32UBEYCLX6WYT7I thepolishpen

    Idiot bureaucrat was actually thinking of “morning wood.” Will still receive paycheck. 

  • http://boingboing.net/ Rob Beschizza
  • silkox

    Credit where credit is due: the Dictionary of American Regional English (opportunity for Amazon link!) found this term during its research. As I recall, a woman in Vancouver, BC is  credited with using these words to describe an upon-waking erection.

    • cdh1971

      I first learned this term, and its meaning, from a Torchwood episode. 

  • Another Kevin

    Georgia O’Keeffe Boulevard?