I mean, I like puns but they're a flash in the pan. Jokes get old after a while and you don't want to embed them in something fairly permanent like a building name.

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yborg a day ago | parent | next [-]

This particular word for the oldest profession goes back to Old English. I am fairly sure it would outlive the building.

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skybrian a day ago | parent | next [-]

If the problem is when the joke lives on amusing undergrads long after you've tired of it, that just makes it worse.

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Lio 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wait until they hear about what Magpie Lane in Oxford used to be called.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpie_Lane,_Oxford

	▲	windward 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A historical bawdy pun is one of the most Oxfordian things I can think of. If we can incorporate a man in drag, we're in real business.

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cucumber3732842 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

"Surely you've all heard of the Hoare house on campus?" seems like a pretty timeless way to a) keep people from dozing off during that bit of lecture b) cause a whole bunch of people to remember who this guy was and what he did.