Asking the public to come up with names for something is becoming almost as bad an idea as asking Johnny Manziel to go wine tasting.
Just last month, England’s Natural Environment Research Council launched a poll for its citizens that asked them to come up with a name for their new $300 million vessel, and they revealed last week that the winner was “Boaty McBoatface.”
Well, the Austin School Board recently tried the same thing, asking the general public to come up with a new name for Robert E. Lee Elementary School because “hundreds of parents said they take offense” to the school being named after the Confederate Army general.
Odds are those same parents are also going to be pretty pissed at some of these nominations:
Here are more of the ridiculous submissions (number of votes for each in parentheses):
Adolf Hitler School for Friendship and Tolerance (8)
Donald J. Trump Elementary (45)
Adam Lanza’s School of Fun (1)
Bee Movie (1)
Boaty McBoatface Elementary School (1)
Communist Elementary (1)
Bruce Lee Elementary (3)
Dwayne Johnson Elementary (1)
Flava-Flave (sic) Elementary (1)
Fuccon Elementary (1)
James Earl Ray Elementary School (1)
John Cena Elementary School (1)
Hypothetical Perfect Person Memorial Elementary School (1)
Kanye West Elementary (2)
Lil Jon Elementary (1)
Politically Correct Elementary School #1 (1)
Richard “Cactus” Pryor Elementary (6)
Schooly McSchoolerson (2)
Spike Lee Elementary (4)
The Illuminati (1)
The Rubber Duckies (1)
Vladmir Ilyich Lenin Elementary School (1)
Willie Nelson Elementary (2)
For what it’s worth, 34 people voted for Robert E. Lee Elementary School to keep its current name. The top three vote getters will be presented to the board of trustees on May 23, which means Lil Jon has roughly four weeks left to get his ass in gear.
h/t Fox 7 Austin
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