A couple of points
In this story, NNews, here the subject of naming rights for the new Community Centre is reported. The first point that should be noticed is the attitude displayed by Councillor Bob - "don't interrupt me when I'm preaching" - Spooner with his reply to Councillor Mutton when she made some points about the report. “I really resent the idea of someone picking apart this report,” he said. What a statement! obviously Bob's experience and longevity has given him a Cromwellian complex, well let's paraphrase Cromwell, Bob - "Your useless body has to go"
The second point is that by adopting the naming report, whereby names of the complex and its constituent parts have had a value placed on them, have we eliminated the possibility of naming the place, and its rooms, after local notables. For example if we wanted to call the press bench the "Layton Dodge Room" who would pay for it and could we even do it for nothing? I guess Oscar Wilde was right - we know the price of everything but the value of nothing.
The second point is that by adopting the naming report, whereby names of the complex and its constituent parts have had a value placed on them, have we eliminated the possibility of naming the place, and its rooms, after local notables. For example if we wanted to call the press bench the "Layton Dodge Room" who would pay for it and could we even do it for nothing? I guess Oscar Wilde was right - we know the price of everything but the value of nothing.
2 comments:
Typically, in a fundraising campaign there are monetary values attached to a variety of areas and objects, but it does not preclude in any way the organization at the outset, or in the future from naming areas. Normally, some key areas would be set aside from the monetary component so that there are options available for exactly what you have described, Ben.
Not sure if the town bothered to do this.
After all, they really put the Spoony Brain Trust to work on this, so I am confident (note my sarcasm) that all options have been fully researched, debated and included. HA.
At the risk of being thought to be a "Feminist", I find myself wondering if Bob Spooner would have made that type of remark if it was one of his male cohorts daring to "pick apart" his report.
Or would he take criticism in stride from one of them?
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