Churches

[gfish]

Having just gone through and geocoded all 539 of them, I think I can authoritatively say that Seattle has too many churches. And most of them have terribly boring names.

Why is it that churches and banks have such similar naming schemes?

Comments

[morinon.livejournal.com]

You want to trust them to be simple, staid, and safe?

[filkferengi]

My cynical side would say, to suggest that they serve similar functions?

[adularia.livejournal.com]

If only we could convince the banks to be open on Sundays.

[tfabris.livejournal.com]

But then you'd have to listen to them drone on and on while you made your deposit...

[ivy]

Earplugs.

[ashley-y.livejournal.com]

Having driven through Monroe (pop. 15K), I suspect it also has 539 churches.

[ivy]

I'd never thought of the naming scheme convergence before, but I can see your point. (Having grown up Catholic, I suppose I wouldn't expect the Bank of the Immaculate Conception, or the Blood of the Sacred Heart Bank, though. [grin])

[anansi133.livejournal.com]

One time I had a dream that if I mapped all the churches in an area, I could see ley-lines on the earth. I believed that to be true for all of ten minutes.