Many years ago I used google edit to alter the name on a park across the road from my house after my wife's online avatar name. Since the park did not have a name on google maps, then it was never altered, and remains that on google maps. The park does actually have name in the official records in a basement at city hall, but no one calls it that, nor is there a sign at that park to indicate such. Guess what... Apple maps added it themselves, naming it the same as what i called it on google maps. Which means it is becoming normative. I am simply biding time for another ten years (it has already been ten years) till I ask the local council to place a sign there, and that will be a 20 year planned valentines day which will defeat any other valentines day. If you want something named the way you want it... aim for the long game. Plus you know, love.
My little brother when he was 5, did the same thing and changed the name of a random building to another name (forgot lol); pretty sure its still there
Specifically it’s “Wendover Peak” above the town of Wendover. There are a number of unnamed foothills nearby, though. I propose Mount Sam be the one immediately southwest of it.
Funny you released this video today today because they just approved a name change of the highest point in Tennessee from Clingmans Dome (not surprisingly named after a Confederate Army general) to the Cherokee name of Kuwohi. It took several years, but basically everyone involved supported it, including basically all of the surrounding counties in both TN and NC.
@@John_Doe974 The southern US absolutely LOVED to name shit after racist Confederates. We're starting to reverse some of it but a lot of states are really pushing back. Mississippi JUST removed the Confederate flag from their state flag and South Carolina still flies that flag openly
Tbf this was also important for old technology to work, regular maps also don't work if all the names on them are wrong, you can't even give directions if the names are wrong.
I live in rural NC and some Floridians (rich older people from other states, mostly NY and FL, buy up tons of land in the Smokies and move here for some reason, then proceed to complain about literally everything and try to change us culturally into where they moved away from. They also drive up land prices, encourage Real Estate companies to buy tons of land and build massive gated communities, it makes my blood boil but I digress) started a campaign to name the mountain they lived on “Gator Mountain”. And thankfully one of my dad’s friends who works in a local Gov’t office went through a ton of old files, newspapers, documents, etc. to find a name for the mountain that had been used enough times to set the precedent, and he submitted it and it got approved! I forgot the actual (now official!) name, but the most important part for me is that it’ll never be called “Gator Mountain”
@@Blowingmind I don’t mind people moving here, what bothers me is when they start to get involved in local politics and try to make here more like where they came from. Like, I genuinely don’t understand why they even left; if they want a place that’s just like where they left, then why not just stay there and not leave?
@@Lukusprime that seems to be a common sentiment. I am curious if you're calling all the blue ridge mountains in Western NC the "Smokies" or specifically the Smokies around Great Smoky mountain national Park. For instance I live somewhere around the "Great Balsam Mountains" in Western NC which are not part of the Smokies but are often called the Smokies by tourists
Knobs are always made from pressed oak, and then you never ate your household responsibilities basically until the bottles started fracturing on a molecular level.
The longest name for a lake in the US is in Massachusetts and is called Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, which means “English knifemen and Nipmuck Indians at the boundary or neutral fishing place”
11 miles from where I live, there's a landfill with a garbage mountain that could definitely be named "Mount Sam". I think it's fitting and the perfect place. You'll be able to see Mount Sam on your commute if you take the train too! Heck, Mount Sam can be seen right from the freeway. I'll talk to waste management and see if they like the idea.
The reason stated for not allowing Vampire Lake is actually logical. if it's a small remote area, Having a bunch of tourist suddenly showing up could cause more harm than good.
@@keiyakins That's not why it's named that though, it was named by east coast explorers assumed the valley would be where they would die because they got lost, they were mostly fine though, I think 1 person died in total.
If only there was a BGN when the John Day River in Oregon was named. No, not that one, the other one. (John Day was a relatively unremarkable person in Oregon history who sonehow managed to get two rivers, two towns, and a dam named after him.)
Hey Sam, you should look into how aviation waypoint names are made. I wonder if the process is similar. I am aware that some air traffic controllers have had waypoints named after them.
I suspect some clever people with senses of humor at the FAA just make them up. It takes some creativity to come up with more-or-less pronounceable names consisting of exactly five letters. Some of my favorites are FATSO, near New Orleans, and the waypoints on the RNAV (GPS) RWY 16 approach at Portsmouth International (KPSM) in New Hampshire: ITAWT, ITAWA, PUDYE, TTATT, IDEED. (There's another waypoint called CARAY but it doesn't really fit the theme.)
Blue Snake of the West River. I did not know that was at one point the name of that river. I do know that John Powel and his expedition sailed down the "Grand" river, and that they named the "Grand' canyon for same said. Not because of its size. Happy coincidence. I want to establish a town named "Fuchaul." Yeah, you know how to say it, and where it's at.
Fun fact: Mount Diablo in the bay area was proposed to be renamed Mount Reagan (for Ronald Reagan), which was rejected. This was because he was not yet dead.
@redhatwoodworker9795 Indian isn't really a slur. It was at one point, but it was used for so long that many natives prefer it (though their actual tribe name is almost always their first choice) Also, I think it's Negro. Which is not nearly as bad as the n word, but yeah, not a good name. I also saw nazi creek, a lot of stuff named after traitors, dead "engine" (not sure how offensive the actual word used is, but it sounds like engine)
Gosh, I can't wait to climb Sam this weekend. Ive dreamt about climbing on top of Sam my entire life. Ive trained for years to prepare to climb Sam with my bare hands.
Hi Sam! Amy's Mountain is way better than Amys Mountain any day. In fact, after the emotional damage caused for even suggesting Amys Mountain, she deserves a raise!
I was not able to find the spreadsheet, but it appears to be the list of places with "Squaw" in the name. This is apparently a derogatory term for Native Americans which I have almost never heard before! See Secretarial Order 3405 from the Department of the Interior. "Secretarial Order 3404 formally identifies the term “squaw” as derogatory and creates a federal task force to find replacement names for geographic features on federal lands bearing the term. The term has historically been used as an offensive ethnic, racial, and sexist slur, particularly for Indigenous women. There are currently more than 650 federal land units that contain the term, according to a database maintained by the Board on Geographic Names. The newly created Derogatory Geographic Names Task Force will include representatives from federal land management agencies, as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion experts from the Department. The Order requires that the task force engage in Tribal consultation and consider public feedback on proposed name changes."
the exceptions to apostraphees breeches are bad, where is what should be used instead, it is called a grave marker ` it looks similar to an apostrophe but it isn't used for quotations as a delimiter. using it in names would fix the problem.
Why not simply get Amy to become the Secretary of the Interior? The answer is right there
Because she'll realize that there are better jobs out there and we can't have that
Serious question. Is Amy a real person? 😂
@@PigglyWigglyDeluxe yes she is one of the editors, she does show up in a few jet lag episodes if I remember correctly
Genius.
Outside Correspondent Secretary of the Interior Amy.
Many years ago I used google edit to alter the name on a park across the road from my house after my wife's online avatar name. Since the park did not have a name on google maps, then it was never altered, and remains that on google maps. The park does actually have name in the official records in a basement at city hall, but no one calls it that, nor is there a sign at that park to indicate such.
Guess what... Apple maps added it themselves, naming it the same as what i called it on google maps. Which means it is becoming normative.
I am simply biding time for another ten years (it has already been ten years) till I ask the local council to place a sign there, and that will be a 20 year planned valentines day which will defeat any other valentines day.
If you want something named the way you want it... aim for the long game. Plus you know, love.
My little brother when he was 5, did the same thing and changed the name of a random building to another name (forgot lol); pretty sure its still there
Well played.
There's a place name on Google Maps for "Benjamin Doyle's playground" in Switzerland because of JetLag
*slow clap* Beautiful.
+1
2:56 the coordinate’s point to a mountain called “Wendover”
Great resurch👏
Specifically it’s “Wendover Peak” above the town of Wendover.
There are a number of unnamed foothills nearby, though. I propose Mount Sam be the one immediately southwest of it.
@@gormster Is there one that's about half the height of Wendover Peak that we could name "Half As Mountain"?
I can just imagine those poor town residents having all their landmarks officially renamed despite no one who lives their actually calling them that
I heard America has adopted Sam as a short hand for their whole country and even given him the honorific "uncle"
00:00 ARE THOSE BRICKS
not ruSSia moment
Bricks part 2???
@@Rosey-op2bp pipe down
0:35 those are bricks
Mount Sam is a real mountain, apparently. But it is in Canada. Change your passport now
Lol. I approve
Or invade Canada, either works.
Isn't Sam from Europe?
How do you mention that while not mentioning it's attached to Octopus Mountain?
@@agsequeiram I hope that's a joke. Sam couldn't sound more American if he tried. 🤣
Funny you released this video today today because they just approved a name change of the highest point in Tennessee from Clingmans Dome (not surprisingly named after a Confederate Army general) to the Cherokee name of Kuwohi. It took several years, but basically everyone involved supported it, including basically all of the surrounding counties in both TN and NC.
Wow, that's terrible
@@John_Doe974 The southern US absolutely LOVED to name shit after racist Confederates. We're starting to reverse some of it but a lot of states are really pushing back. Mississippi JUST removed the Confederate flag from their state flag and South Carolina still flies that flag openly
@KevinPassino there's nothing wrong with that flag.
@@JamesBond-xx1lv If by nothing you mean, associated with slavery, racism, and treason, then yeah, nothing at all.
@@JamesBond-xx1lv The slavery and institutionalized racism aren't problems? That's wild. Plus the fact that it symbolizes being fucking losers 😂
Is HAI getting more and more custom animated? I like it!
Those sweet Nebula subs can help pay for more motion graphics artists
6:50 sounds so sadly serious, especially if it's coming from someone dead. which it isn't. yet.
19 February 2052
3:57 that's in Madeira Island, Portugal
Mount Sam Helens will be the greatest tourist destination within the area of the mountain
💀💀💀
Obscure US bureaucracy that is necessary for import modern technology to work, my beloved
What?
@@AlphaGeekgirl I'm saying that I like obscure US bureaucracy
Tbf this was also important for old technology to work, regular maps also don't work if all the names on them are wrong, you can't even give directions if the names are wrong.
4:22 Last night I drove to Harper’s Ferry and I thought about you.
A-ha! So it was YOU who stole the apostrophe off of Harpers Ferry!
I live in rural NC and some Floridians (rich older people from other states, mostly NY and FL, buy up tons of land in the Smokies and move here for some reason, then proceed to complain about literally everything and try to change us culturally into where they moved away from. They also drive up land prices, encourage Real Estate companies to buy tons of land and build massive gated communities, it makes my blood boil but I digress) started a campaign to name the mountain they lived on “Gator Mountain”. And thankfully one of my dad’s friends who works in a local Gov’t office went through a ton of old files, newspapers, documents, etc. to find a name for the mountain that had been used enough times to set the precedent, and he submitted it and it got approved! I forgot the actual (now official!) name, but the most important part for me is that it’ll never be called “Gator Mountain”
The Florida to Asheville pipeline is crazy
@@Blowingmind I don’t mind people moving here, what bothers me is when they start to get involved in local politics and try to make here more like where they came from. Like, I genuinely don’t understand why they even left; if they want a place that’s just like where they left, then why not just stay there and not leave?
If Floridians are calling it a mountain, I imagine it must tower at least twenty feet above the surrounding landscape.
Good on you! At least you did something.
@@Lukusprime that seems to be a common sentiment. I am curious if you're calling all the blue ridge mountains in Western NC the "Smokies" or specifically the Smokies around Great Smoky mountain national Park. For instance I live somewhere around the "Great Balsam Mountains" in Western NC which are not part of the Smokies but are often called the Smokies by tourists
The cosplay at the naming convention is next level
You can visit Sam's knob off of exit 420 on the blue ridge parkway. I can say from experience that the view is beautiful from the top of Sam's knob
Knobs are always made from pressed oak, and then you never ate your household responsibilities basically until the bottles started fracturing on a molecular level.
I actually saw Sam's knob on the highway. It was much bigger than I expected and I was really excited!!
@@ryanjohnson4565 Wow, AI really is the future!
@@gordon1545 yep.
Half as interesting is TWICE as interesting now boys
TWICE???!?!!!
Ergo, now "Exactly as Interesting"
There’s a mount Sam in East Kootenay, BC, Canada 🇨🇦 🏔️ (2871m, 9419ft)
Thanks, Sam, now 2.71M viewers will forever more think that the Bering Sea is _south_ of the Aleutians instead of north of them.
Right after their yearly mistakes video too
Here just to applaud "naming conventions". Well done, Sir. Well done! 😂👏
The longest name for a lake in the US is in Massachusetts and is called Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, which means “English knifemen and Nipmuck Indians at the boundary or neutral fishing place”
thats the "humorous translation" which is "probably not correct"
@@PlutoTheSynth if the name itself is humorous, an humorous translation would be accurate.
It does seem like a funny name
@@PlutoTheSynth Edited
Fun fact! Two weeks before this video released, I submitted a name request to name an unnamed stream near my property!
Not Mt Sam. You should rename an ocean depth as Sam’s Bottom!
I had my daughter build a mound in her sand box. We're calling it Mount Samd
0:40 why is that eagle so yassified
the govt is gay
11 miles from where I live, there's a landfill with a garbage mountain that could definitely be named "Mount Sam". I think it's fitting and the perfect place. You'll be able to see Mount Sam on your commute if you take the train too! Heck, Mount Sam can be seen right from the freeway. I'll talk to waste management and see if they like the idea.
These people really approved of “Poo Poo Point” Issaquah, WA (probably)
You skipped a step added in many states: Review by volunteer state-level Geographic Names Boards.
I’m on one of those state-level BGNs. I was going to mention the same thing, but you beat me to it :)
The reason stated for not allowing Vampire Lake is actually logical. if it's a small remote area, Having a bunch of tourist suddenly showing up could cause more harm than good.
Now I'm curious to know how Death Valley got approved as an official name for the lands surrounding Furnace Creek in the Californian desert.
by being named 30 years before that organization was created.
Also it's pretty descriptive. It's a valley that's hot enough to kill you.
By being a valley that kills you. It’s a very useful name. Would YOU go to a place called “Death Valley” ? Because it genuinely does kill you.
I was told that it's a valley where people die. Been there several times, and found it accurate enough.
@@keiyakins That's not why it's named that though, it was named by east coast explorers assumed the valley would be where they would die because they got lost, they were mostly fine though, I think 1 person died in total.
Mt Sam, right off Interstate 80 northeast of Wendover, UT.
5:33 "im cooked" Sam 2024
Naming conventions!!! Plainly genius pun
0:15 when you watch a Modern Family episode before you write your script.
I propose that Mount Doom be renamed Mount Sam
Unfortunately the Maori already named it Mount Ngauruhoe.
@@Croz89how does one pronounce this
@@1SSJA I don't know, have to ask a Maori person.
You didn't link the spreadsheet? Boo Hiss! We all wanted to see those forbidden place names!
I think the word is Fork
@@SayonR No.
Another commenter above is correct. - @randyreese6413
@@pace1195 oh shoot, I did come across that word as well but I didn't know it's meaning lol
me who was waiting for jet lag to upload
If only there was a BGN when the John Day River in Oregon was named. No, not that one, the other one.
(John Day was a relatively unremarkable person in Oregon history who sonehow managed to get two rivers, two towns, and a dam named after him.)
Should've sent your outside correspondent Amy to check out the mountain
"I'm cooked" made me giggle lol. God, your videos are always so fucking funny. 5-6 years in and haven't been disappointed once
+1 for “Half As Mountain”
With our luck, they name it "Sams Hill" - no apostrophe!
“Mount Sam” sounds like a request
“alright, let’s see how it works” has the most depressing tone ever
Hey Sam, you should look into how aviation waypoint names are made. I wonder if the process is similar. I am aware that some air traffic controllers have had waypoints named after them.
I suspect some clever people with senses of humor at the FAA just make them up. It takes some creativity to come up with more-or-less pronounceable names consisting of exactly five letters. Some of my favorites are FATSO, near New Orleans, and the waypoints on the RNAV (GPS) RWY 16 approach at Portsmouth International (KPSM) in New Hampshire: ITAWT, ITAWA, PUDYE, TTATT, IDEED. (There's another waypoint called CARAY but it doesn't really fit the theme.)
Blue Snake of the West River. I did not know that was at one point the name of that river. I do know that John Powel and his expedition sailed down the "Grand" river, and that they named the "Grand' canyon for same said. Not because of its size. Happy coincidence.
I want to establish a town named "Fuchaul." Yeah, you know how to say it, and where it's at.
The ambiguity of a location name is great to confuse an invading enemies!
"Benjamin Harrison-"
Me: Who?
"-one of our most forgettable presidents-"
Me: ...can't argue with that I guess
I was successful with the case I submitted to the BGN. They changed the name, and I was happy. The local newspaper even found it newsworthy.
Fun fact: Mount Diablo in the bay area was proposed to be renamed Mount Reagan (for Ronald Reagan), which was rejected. This was because he was not yet dead.
A radio tower on top of a mountain with no name in Wendover Utah. Excellent choice for your secret lair.
4:03 Can't wait for the proposal to get accepted on November 19th so that this has to go in the yearly mistakes video.
woooooo, paperwork!!!!!!!! we love unnecessarily complicated stuff🔥🔥🔥
Mount Sam sounds like a great Saturday night
2:36 names such as… that a lot of places with the n word.
It can’t possibly be THAT word, can it? I thought it was probably Indian. Can someone find the spreadsheet for us please?
A sidebar with google reveals that the word is probably squaw.
@redhatwoodworker9795 Indian isn't really a slur. It was at one point, but it was used for so long that many natives prefer it (though their actual tribe name is almost always their first choice)
Also, I think it's Negro. Which is not nearly as bad as the n word, but yeah, not a good name. I also saw nazi creek, a lot of stuff named after traitors, dead "engine" (not sure how offensive the actual word used is, but it sounds like engine)
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Can confirm it is squaw, I googled one of the co-ordinates and it came up with the spreadsheet shown on the video
Nothing like Sam over explaining a beaucratic process.
Don't go looking for creek names around ottville or seatonville Illinois. 😅
"Mount Sam" could be taken a number of different directions 6.6
Of course we have a standard naming agency. Of COURSE we do.
I literally had never heard of this until a week ago. Coincidence is genuinely insane.
Mount Sam? Don't mind if I do! 😂
Nice. No wait, I mean GNIS.
I nominate Mount Sam for surface mining and subsequent implosion
That lack of apostrophes also drives me nuts
Gosh, I can't wait to climb Sam this weekend. Ive dreamt about climbing on top of Sam my entire life. Ive trained for years to prepare to climb Sam with my bare hands.
Dope 3-D Animation!
A new mountain? Horray.
Hi Sam!
Amy's Mountain is way better than Amys Mountain any day. In fact, after the emotional damage caused for even suggesting Amys Mountain, she deserves a raise!
"im cooked"
Dear lord, hearing wendov- HAI guy say that is unnatural
Instead of Mount Sam, I propose Sammy McSamface.
Here in Australia my favourite place name is Bobs Farm, sadly also with no apostrophe.
2:36 you can’t just drop that and not link it! Give us the spicy list!
I was not able to find the spreadsheet, but it appears to be the list of places with "Squaw" in the name. This is apparently a derogatory term for Native Americans which I have almost never heard before! See Secretarial Order 3405 from the Department of the Interior.
"Secretarial Order 3404 formally identifies the term “squaw” as derogatory and creates a federal task force to find replacement names for geographic features on federal lands bearing the term. The term has historically been used as an offensive ethnic, racial, and sexist slur, particularly for Indigenous women. There are currently more than 650 federal land units that contain the term, according to a database maintained by the Board on Geographic Names.
The newly created Derogatory Geographic Names Task Force will include representatives from federal land management agencies, as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion experts from the Department. The Order requires that the task force engage in Tribal consultation and consider public feedback on proposed name changes."
@@broadestsmiler Not gonna lie, not the word I thought of.
@@benx6264 I was surprised too!
@@benx6264 We thought the left column said ****** but a list of "squaw" places is bigger.
yo i swear it seems that there are so many obscure gov't agencies that i have never heard of in my life lol
There is a real Mount Sam in British Columbia, but that's in the strange Not-America reaches of the map
Kitchen Appliance Naming Institute
"What's that thing do?"
"It keeps things fresh"
"Well then, that's a Fresher.... I'm going on break!"
did sam just hint us towards twice as interesting?!
Maybe talk to Sam over at Wendover and see if you could maybe name the mountain Mount Wendover. 😉
Remember when they renamed Shonash Ravine to Clayton Ravine and then for some reason it was called Eastwood Ravine?
So this is how we get the Tapan Zee Bridge back
5:55 what does that piano mean?
We used to have a Mount Cerberus. Until bureaucrats decided that was too cool to have.
Theres a mountain in the catskills called Sams point
To be fair "Big Ol' Crack" sounds pretty good and is very descriptive.
All I know is, they better not change the name of Chunky Gal Mountain
I agree wholeheartedly that an apostrophe to symbolize possessiveness
the exceptions to apostraphees breeches are bad, where is what should be used instead, it is called a grave marker `
it looks similar to an apostrophe but it isn't used for quotations as a delimiter. using it in names would fix the problem.
Can't wait to visit Sams Mount
This guy sounds like sam from wendover
Probably just a coincidence.
2:07 I can never escape the snail
1:07 Is that a video from inside the Supreme Court? I thought that wasn’t allowed
Its not, maybe from some state supreme court at best but probably just some royalty free clip
Alexa: Set a reminder for five years after Sam Denby dies.
I guess if Mt. Sam doesnt work you could try Mt. Son of Sam ... he is over 5 years dead
Love that Joes Butte is among the list of offensive place names😂
But Idaho got approved?
they knew it'd be really funny in 70 years when a time traveller did Star Wars ten years early and named a key character after the state.
Currently there's Bitch Lake in Idaho
This video is perfect if only for the terrib- i mean… AMAZING joke at 3:38
I want a place named "Half as Mountain"
I *KNOW* far in the future someone will come 5 years after his death and say WHERE'S MOUNT SAM
Rare WV mention
erm, you wrote devils tower twice in the thunbnail 🤓
Good news! We got the name done and it's now "Sams Mountain". Your welcome.