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“With non-profits shutting their doors, while 'hooverville' tent cities are appearing across this nation it only takes a Fredrick Gates-like figure to convince the new Rockefellers to be the new, new philanthrocapitalists.”
Cameron Sinclair: Dear Obama, Enact a 'Greed to Need' Tax This April.
“With non-profits shutting their doors, while 'hooverville' tent cities are appearing across this nation it only takes a”
“25 October 2010 9:12PM the housing benefit system is undoubtedly a basket case in the minority but talk of london councils block booking b&b's in hastings for central london residents is a chilling reminder of 'hooverville'.”
“Tent State University, an event in which a group of students build a hooverville-like university by setting up a field of tents on Vorhees Mall, started on April 24 and lasted throughout the week.”
The Huffington Post: Budget Cuts And The Recession At Rutgers
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hooverville’.
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not prime real estate
describing areas where the poor, unhomed and oppressed are found. Some of these didn't belong in miserable circumstances.
villa miseria, urban decay, urban blight, trailer park, township, tent city, Tenderloin, squalor, slurb, slum, skid row, sink of corruption and 36 more...
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Invisible Man
Words culled from Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
sweetback, inspirit, plasticine, atoss, hyperreceptivity, laugher-at-wounds, necrophily, monopolate, aliveness, thinker-tinker, weltschmerz, klieg and 113 more...
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What's next here?
thunderhead, thundercloud, cumulus, cumulonimbus, fibrous, hazy, glaciated, cirrus, nimbus, meteorology, fahrenheit, thermoscope and 285 more...
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metaphorical places
canossa, waterloo, rubicon, eden, coventry, oz, gethsemane, calvary, serendip, the land of nod, between scylla an..., brigadoon and 77 more...
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On The Streets
rag-picker, hobo, street-urchin, tramp, vagrant, jarkman, clapperdogeon, mendicant, pauper, mooch, vagabond, cadger and 36 more...
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Classassin
Class^Warfare$$$$!
arriviste, parvenu, gigmania, dyvoury, thugly, déclassé, stalko, sudden loss of we..., guttersnipe, mesocracy, nouveau riche, bourgeois and 71 more...
Tweets
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reesetee Earworm alert! Nov 13, 2007
chained_bear It was all your talk of Kaliningrad that threw off the giant computer brain. I hope you're pleased with yourself!
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it, I can't say. People just liked it better that way. Nov 13, 2007
sionnach Google's giant computer brain has decided that someone looking at 'hooverville' might also enjoy:
Russian river cruises.
Cool, we've tricked Google into thinking Hooverville is in Russia! Nov 13, 2007
sionnach It may be Turkey to you, but it will always be Byzantium to me.
And what if you made a date to meet someone in upper volta (hint, bring some consonants, if you're planning on visiting the capital), or in the aftershave hub of Asia, burma? Much room for hilarious misunderstanding.
I'll be in the corner, nursing my Mumbai Sapphire gin. Nov 13, 2007
trivet That's nobody's business but the Turks. Nov 13, 2007
chained_bear Like Istanbul, which was Constantinople. Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople. So if you have a date in Constantinople, she'll be waiting in Istanbul. Nov 13, 2007
sionnach c_b: I had thought as well that Leningrad was called Stalingrad at one point. But when I looked it up, it seems it was actually Volgograd that made the change to Stalingrad and back.
The one that remains mysterious is Königsberg, famous in its day for Euler's celebrated "7 bridges" problem. This eventually became Kaliningrad; given its East Prussian location, one might have expected it to be one of the first to regain its original name. In fact, if Wikipedia is to be believed, it was briefly Russified as Kyonigsberg (Кёниг�?берг), before being renamed to Kaliningrad (Калинингра�?д).
I had assumed until recently that it belonged to one of the Baltic republics, but in fact it remains a Russian exclave, the so-called Kaliningrad oblast. A reminder of its strategic importance during the Cold War as one of the westernmost territories of the Soviet Union came as recently as July of this year, when Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov declared that if US-controlled missile defense systems were deployed in Poland that nuclear weapons may be deployed in Kaliningrad. Nov 13, 2007
chained_bear I thought it was Leningrad that changed to Stalingrad? Also Peking to Beijing... but that didn't change back so... not like Peking to Beijing. Nov 13, 2007
sionnach Kind of like Volgo-Stalin-Volgograd Nov 12, 2007
chained_bear For a while the Hoover Dam changed its name as well, because of Hoover's--shall we say--tarnished legacy, but now it's called Hoover Dam again. Nov 12, 2007
seanahan Not be confused with "getting a Clinton", which ahem, is an adult concept. Aug 1, 2007
slumry After the eponymous President Hoover--a collection of shacks and huts at the edge of the city where unemployed people lived in the 1930s Aug 1, 2007