Voting on the convention center name is now closed, but you can still head on over and suggest that the city be renamed "Harry Balls":
http://www.feedbackfortwayne.org/forums/96281-legacy-fort-wayne/suggestions/1482799-rename-the-city-to-harry-baals?ref=title
..and remember, each person can cast up to three votes!

I like the changing of the pronunciation of the name and the excuse, "she was just trying to save the family a bit of embarrassment especially her children."... I'm pretty sure you could have just started by NOT naming her child Harry if the last name is Baals...

Why didn't gramma just shorten it to Harbls?
And how that reporter got through this without cracking up I will never know.

Harold

The two brothers, Woody and Harry Baals.

so if the family changed the pronunciation of their last name, why was the reporter such a dick (see what i did here) and still used the wrong pronunciation?

Hairy Ba'al.

Anchorwomans scare is killing me please make her stop!!!

Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehe. Balls.

Ok, fine. But why not just name it after his brother, Sal Travis Baals??

Damn, that reporter was good. No way I could do that without snickering. Although like mxxcon I wonder why he wsa pronouncing it "balls" when apparently it was pronounced "bails" even during the mayor's lifetime.

>> ^Trancecoach:

Harold


... was never his name.

Also, those dicks at city hall already altered the name of his street. It used to be Harry Baals Drive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_balls

Damn. I hope the new mayor, Dee Zanuts, has better fortune.

>> ^quantumushroom:
Damn. I hope the new mayor, Dee Zanuts, has better fortune.


VOTE FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER PHIL McCRACKEN!

I'm voting for Heywood Jablomee for Governor.

Please anchorlady blink! Please blink!

Blink damnit!

She's staring through my soul!