Okay, campers, this is something a little different than anything we’ve ever done before.
A reader who also happens to be a friend suggested this idea and I promptly told him we were going to plagiarize him.
He didn’t say no, so here goes.
This is a game, a contest, that we’re going to call Name That Road as inspired by the following article in the Baton Rouge Advocate:
http://theadvocate.com/home/4984066-125/new-frothing-bubble-site-found
This is a story about 11 new bubble sites that have been found in the inundated swampland west of the 8.5-acre sinkhole in northern Assumption Parish, including a frothing spot that has been dubbed the “mother of all bubble sites.”
The sites are in an approximate row west of an unnamed oilfield access road extending south from LA. 70 South through the wooded swamp, according to a parish map, The Advocate says.
As you may be aware, we have pointed out on several occasions that Gov. Piyush Jindal has yet to make an appearance at this man-made catastrophe. That’s likely because there are no network television news crews to give him camera face time so he can rattle off a list of things the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) has thrown together for him.
It could also be because the entire mess is the result of permits issued by the Department of Natural Resources on his—and Scott Angelle’s—watch.
Be that as it may, we are officially launching an unofficial “Name the Unnamed Oilfield Access Road” contest.
The road, after all, should have a name given the events that have occurred in that area of the state.
Here are a few suggested names:
• Piyush Drive;
• Jindal Junction;
• Brine Boulevard;
• Bubble Boulevard;
• Descension Parish Lane;
• Scott Angelle Ave.;
• In Sink;
• Seismic Matters;
• Bayou Byway;
• DNR Memorial Highway;
• Corne Corner;
• Cornefusion Crossroads;
• Shaky Town;
• Sink Hole;
• Texas Whine.
Now get those suggestions in to LouisianaVoice.
The winner will get 25 free π-yush=3.14 (on a scale of 100) bumper stickers (hey, we can’t sell ‘em, so we may as well give ‘em away) and six special “π-yush says…Do More With Less” business cards (warning: they’re a little risqué but if you have a sense of humor, you’ll want more to pass out).
Louisiana Voice 
I have a bone to pick with you.
1) I think you’re a great journalist and a true patriot.
2) I dislike the corrupt crony spoils system that Jindal is pushing on us and that the advocate refuses to uncover.
3) however, I do think it weakens your work when you refer to Jindal as piyush. I know it’s his real name, but it’s also irrelevant. the man is skirting the line of criminal mafia boss and when you call him piyush it just makes people think you are biased for the wrong reasons.
Your comments are received in the constructive spirit in which you voiced them and I shall take them into account. The last thing I want is to be thought biased “for the wrong reasons” when there are plenty of legitimate reasons to be biased against this administration. Also, I want at all costs not to be thought of as racist–because I am not.
Thanks again for taking the time and effort to set me back on course.
Jindalbrew Highway
I disagree with Frank. It’s his name and by calling himself Bobby shows his own bias and racism towards what and whom he really is….
I agree with Midnight 2!
Yippie skippy a contest!! Here goes:
Ajindal Avenue … In context: No John we are not selling courthouses today that’s not on the Ajindal … Yet!
How about …. Privatized Drive
Or …. Legislative Exile Lane
Separation of Powers MEMORIAL Parkway
Or ….. The Mywayorthe Highway
Tom this is really just too much fun for a Thursday morning. How long does the contest go? I have to get to work now…. Assuming I still have a job… But will no doubt come up with many more entries as the day goes by.
Slumdog Estates Drive
Recall Jindal Route
I have to go with the obvious here: “Corne Hole Road” [I know, I know]
If we wanted to go with the Pollyanna approach in an effort to enhance tourism and our economic development agenda we could go with the alliterative: “Bubble-up Boulevard” (of course, technically, we’d have to put in a neutral ground.
Name it: “Third World Drive”
I would name the road Toil and Trouble Turnpike.
Corne Soupe
Corne Hole
Surely You’re Mistaken There’s No Such Road
Plop Plop Fizz Fizz Scenic Drive
Highway to Hell
Booby Hatch Access Point
Piyush’s Folly
Sinking Feeling Pass
Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble Scenic Overlook
It Was Here a Minute Ago Trail
Show Me Yours and I’ll Show You Piyush’s Hidden Access
What-A-Great-Place-to-Dump-the-Bodies Nature Trail
Look Into My Eyes There Is No Sinkhole Alternate Route
Another Crooked Pass (Always Under Construction)
If I Go Down You’re All Coming With Me Express Lane
Piyush Playground Area (Watch For Falling Approval Ratings)
Folly Beach Retreat From the Truth Trail
Thanks Tom! Sharon
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DON’T BLAME JINDAL RD.
How about A ROAD SINKING FASTER THEN JUNDAL CAN TALK
JINDAL SWINDLE ROAD
WHAT HOLE ROAD
NOT IN THE JINDAL BUDGET ROAD
How about “bayou corne-hole road”
PIYUSH CORNE HOLE DRIVE
Don Ho Road – you know….”Tiny Bubbles”
Jindal’s Deliberative Process Exemption Lane???? Then we can finally have a meaning for such nonsense!!!!
Piyush’s Stinkhole Drive
“What?!? How many more years of this #@*& Lane?”
Piway to Heaven
Jindal Suckhole Avenue
“I have the job I want” Road
“Not the Road to the Whitehouse!!”
Teagued Again Trail
“Just call me Bobby” Lane
“Going…going…gone….SOLD” Road
Hu neads taechers rode????
ALEC LANE
Who’s Jindal Freeway
What about “Bayou Self” Road?
Bob
Now THAT’S a pothole.
Witch’s Brew Avenue
VorTex-as Brine Drive
Gumbo’s Ready! Road
Tom,
One thing is for certain. You have the most literate readers of any blogger in the nation. All, and I do mean all, of the road name suggestions are clever, thoughtful and descriptive. My hat’s off to you and especially your readers.
Angelle Alley
Piyush Problem Parkway
Bobby Bubbling Boulevard
Jindal Aspirations Avenue
Scott Sinkhole Street
Angelle Angst Avenue
Governmental mistake Rd
Flatulence Way?
My Way (or the) Highway
The Road To (and from) Hell
Loss Rhode
With respect to my own rural road I would opt for Pothole Lane!
I have thought of organizing a citizen’s brigade to seize our road from Bobby, hold it hostage, and begin charging fees to locals to travel the road in a kind of improvised vigilante repair effort since our alleged governor has been unable to do his job.
I think this is a brilliant idea . You know it is jind of hard to do the job you were elected to do while being every where but where you belong. Sure would be nice to have a job that not only allowed you but also paid you and your travel cost to spend all of your time and effort promoting your self to another company. I wonder how long that would last. About as long as a snowball in hell!!!
Once the pie is divided and doled out, one cannot recoup that which is quickly devoured. The fix is set in , you can’t recoup any portion of the pie.
We are to blame for those we elected and put in office. No one else is responsible, but just like Obama and Jindal a different tid-bit on the trotline enticingly yes, yet all the same Bull…., too late once the vote is in, all of a sudden Americans tired of the established anglosaxon laden two parties of phoneys, quickly bite onto the offering of a minority and who else but the minority’s who are hungrily awaiting a change are the quickest to jump onto the tailgatte of either party with the lure of change for the betterment of the average joe, its not about the average in-need joe, its about lining the pockets of cronies and the “Party and it is through misrepresentation of all which will lessen the yoke-hold on the working man which leaves the voters with the thought that ” a change is going to come with another pseudo-leader from the same ole, same ole mold.
It’s funny how if you wait a little while the weather changes in Louisiana and the same applies to it’s politics. Time seems to heal all wounds. Things are beginning to look up for the Democratic Party here. The Republican Senatorial Campaign committee wants to lash Piyush to a Senatorial campaign against Senator Mary Landrieu. Jindal knows that it is a lose-lose situation for him. The party may present the Presidency as a carrot to get him to run, but they would insist that he stay put if he became Louisiana’s junior Senator, knowing that it is total folly for Jindal to envision the Presidency. Thus, it would be the end of his ambition. He would lose by winning or lose by losing. Landrieu would win by winning her present seat back or win by losing to become the next Governor of Louisiana.. How’s them potatoes? Like I said, time heals all wounds!
Preventable Lane
Corne Gas Free Pass
Jindal Swine Dr. Piyush Pits Place Absent Teague Trace Piyush Stink Hole Rd. Phew Piyush Pl. Wake Up and Smell the Piyush Pl. No Jindalman Rd. Route Ruin Li’l Bobby’s Bubbly Lane Eco No Rd. Piyush Pots Pl. Risky Rd. Methane Miner’s Blvd. Speak Truth to Power Pl. LA Down the Drain Trace Throw In Jindal Place Oil & Gas Excesses Exchange Brown Nose Burn Bobby Burn Blvd.
How about naming it, “The Mighty Hidey Hole”???