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Gryphon
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Sep-14-13, 07:20 PM (EDT) |
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"A thing I've just learned:"
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There is a medical organization in the real world called "Phoenix House". Their line appears to be what used to be called drug and alcohol rehab. Apparently someone out there thinks that by naming a swanky hotel with booze on the room service menu after it, I was making some kind of cruel and derisive statement. Hmm. Well, um, for the record, I wasn't. If I knew about the organization before, well, right now, it was long enough ago that it had slipped my mind entirely. --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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Mercutio
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Sep-14-13, 07:36 PM (EDT) |
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1. "RE: A thing I've just learned:"
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Do people... NOT call it drug and alcohol rehabilitation anymore? Is there a different term now? Also, I think you're in the clear on this one. If the Phoenix House had been, say, some sort of opium den, then it would be like "Yeaaahhhhh... maybe go back and change that." But, I mean, Phoenix imagery and use is pretty common, so... (Having said that, 'Phoenix House' -would- have been a good name for whatever the Diqiu equivalent of the House of the Rising Sun is.) -Merc Keep Rat "What kind of progeny a powerful, formless cloud of noxious nightmares and spiritual destruction might produce, I dare not even speculate." |
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Gryphon
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Sep-14-13, 07:39 PM (EDT) |
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3. "RE: A thing I've just learned:"
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LAST EDITED ON Sep-14-13 AT 07:44 PM (EDT) >Do people... NOT call it drug and alcohol rehabilitation anymore? Is >there a different term now? I believe the going jargon at the moment is "substance abuse and dependency treatment". Anyway, I think it was the specific use of "House" that caused the issue. I suppose it probably does look deliberate from a certain point of view, though in the event, I was thinking of the now-obsolescent practice of naming grand hotels the Something House (Parker House, Porter House, et al.). --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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