07-26-2007, 10:00 PM
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Hello, Dum-Dum.
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 10,117
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Daily Affirmation
Quote:
Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
The Mantis roller coaster at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio was originally supposed to be named "Banshee" upon its debut in 1996. After realizing the negative meaning of the word, park executives decided to change the name and destroyed all promotional items containing the "Banshee" name.
Banshee was used as a name for a General Motors series of show cars for its Pontiac Division, the first appearing in 1966. Reportedly, the name was to be used on the Pontiac Firebird, but GM executives thought better of using a name meaning a "screaming spirit of death" on one its products.
Shape Shifter originally was going to choose the sock name "Banshee" when he registered. He changed to SS, when he realized a banshee is a female spirit, and he wanted to start out with his "slave stories" which required a male voice.
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