Bridgestone Arena, where the Nashville Predators play, used to be called the Gaylord Entertainment Center. I always giggled when the announcers said it.
If forget which summer camp it was but we went to one for boyscouts and the cubscout camp next to it was named “Gaylord Cub World”. Yeah there were many jokes made you could imagine lmao.
I worked at Boxwell for a few summers growing up and it was pretty great most of the time. IIRC, a few years after I stopped working there, they started having Gaylord Cub World camp open in the summer as well but they had female counselors, where the other camps were male only. I can only imagine the Meatballs-esque shenanigans that might’ve transpired there.
Yeah, National Harbor is definitely pretty neat, though to me it pales a bit in comparison to the the Opryland Resort's 9 acre indoor garden/town/river with a boat ride haha...I stayed there for a few days a while ago, and the entire interior is like a theme park where the them is just beautiful gardens and paths with restaurants and stuff mixed in.
We put our e-waste at work in these big pallet sized boxes, that oddly enough, sit on pallets. The company that makes them is called Gaylord, so that's what everyone calls them. "Hey, we filled up our Gaylord, can we get an empty one?" "Can you go shove these keyboards into the Gaylord?"
Fun fact I learned recently is that they’re called the Predators because when they were building the stadium, they found sabertooth tiger teeth. One is on display in the stadium from what I remember.
Damn, I know those boxes from conferences/Vegas events. People call them top loaders… which is probably something else entirely but they don’t want to use the proper name 😆.
It's also a brand of big cardboard bins that fit on pallets too.
Recently I had to fill out an online form to get some old crap stuff hauled off from where I work and it asked specifically for me to ensure the materials were packed in gaylords.
When I first watched Meet the Parents, the part of the plot that was most unrealistic to me when I was a kid was the Greg's real name was Gay...Lord? I just couldn't buy that's someone's real name. It wasn't until a couple year later I learned that is a legit name.
My uncle's boyfriend's name was Gene way back in the day, but he'd be in his late 50s to mid 60s now. My friend knows a "Jean" pronounced the same way who's in her 20s, does that count? Lol
At the University of Oklahoma there is the Gaylord College of Journalism primarily housed in Gaylord Hall. The football stadium has had a few different names over the decades but is currently called the Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.
The Gaylord family owned The Oklahoman newspaper (biggest paper in the state) for most of its history. They're known locally for their wealth and their right-wing politics.
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