Comments on: Conference room names

Question: Conference room names

thinman — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:42:02 -0800

My company (a web dev firm) moved offices, and the boss wants names for the four conference rooms on site. Suggestions? Personally, I like Pirate-Ninja-Dwarf-Elf.

By: idiotfactory

idiotfactory — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:50:37 -0800

Paper, Rock, Scissors, Dynamite.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:51:14 -0800

Time, famine, pestilence and death - has a nice ring to it.

Larry, Moe, Curly, and Shep (or Joe)

north west east south

Mario, Luigi, Toad, Yoshi

summer winter spring fall

Ringo Paul John George

By: mullacc

mullacc — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:51:57 -0800

I think you answered your own question.

Serious examples I've seen include names of local rivers/bodies of water and names of local streets (presumably streets with actual names, I don't think the 43rd St conference room would fly).

By: teece

teece — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:52:24 -0800

Easy: dead poets. Keats. Yeats. Whitman. Dickinson. Chaucer. Levertov. etc.

Or mythological names are always cool: let's meet in the Zeus room... Nope, it's occupied, how about the Athena room...

Quetzlcoatl is really easy to remember.

OK, I'm just giving you the way I name my computers and disks and such.

By: bDiddy

bDiddy — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:53:29 -0800

Dairy
Meat
Grain
Fruits&Vegetables

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Dessert

Blood
Yellow Bile
Phlegm
Black Bile

Rock
Paper
Scissors
Tiger Hand

By: bDiddy

bDiddy — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:54:49 -0800

Dang, idiotfactory. Maybe i should have previewed before posting.

By: mikeh

mikeh — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:55:31 -0800

At work we have had servers and some conference rooms named by mythology: Athena, Ceres, etc. We also have buildings named after crop geneticists since that's what the company does: Darwin, Mendel, Carver, and so on. Depending on what your company does, you might be able to come up with a naming scheme that fits your business.

By: CrunchyFrog

CrunchyFrog — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:55:52 -0800

The proper combination here is Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot.

By: Godbert

Godbert — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:58:30 -0800

You could always take the Dilbert approach: Quality, Teamwork, Excellence, Action, Good Planning. Assign names arbitrarily, and then use confusion as an excuse for missing/being late to meetings.

More seriously, if the rooms have to be named (I personally don't see why numbers don't work, but that wasn't the question), I think that mullacc's suggestion for local streets/bodies of water is the best bet. I like teece's suggestions (I name all my computers after philosophers (Locke, Mill, Hume, etc.)) but then you run the risk of potentially having explain the meaning, and justify it to people with different views.

Are there any particularly famous people from the town/city? If you can find four of those, that might work too.

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:00:17 -0800

Trojan, Ramses, Magma, Sheik

By: scody

scody — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:01:50 -0800

John, Paul, George, Ringo.

By: xo

xo — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:07:28 -0800

Ace, King, Queen, Jack.

Scary, Sporty, Posh, Baby. (No one wants Ginger.)

By: sapienza

sapienza — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:07:54 -0800

Pirate, Monkey, Robot, Ninja.

I can't agree with "Dwarf" and "elf".

By: sapienza

sapienza — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:08:23 -0800

Dammit, like Crunchy Frog said. Shoulda read more closely.

By: xo

xo — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:09:16 -0800

Fantastic, Invisible, Torch, Thing.

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:11:08 -0800

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, Thyme

Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll, Regret

Up, Down, Left, Right

Circle, A, George, Banana (Just four random, unconnected things)

Beef, Pork, Chicken, Fish

By: artifarce

artifarce — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:14:08 -0800

If they don't have to be serious, you can always go the route yahoo took: sane, articulate, decent, and continent, for example.

By: Emperor Yamamoto's Eggs

Emperor Yamamoto's Eggs — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:15:03 -0800

Britney, Christina, Ashlee, Jessica.

By: scratch

scratch — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:17:27 -0800

Eenie, meenie, minie, mo.

By: grateful

grateful — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:19:45 -0800

Earth, Wind, Fire, Water

By: MsMolly

MsMolly — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:28:54 -0800

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

By: RichardP

RichardP — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:30:08 -0800

Names from games. For example, Monopoly properties, such as the four railroads (or stations in London version):

Reading Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, B&O Railroad, Short Line

King's Cross, Marylebone, Fenchurch Street, Liverpool Street

Names related to the appropriate business field. For example, names of popular browsers:

Explorer, Firefox, Netscape, Safari

Famous people chosen from a particular profession. For example, famous physicists:

Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, Heisenberg

Political boundaries, for example, Chinese provinces:

Chinese Provinces:Guangdong, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan

Prominent geographic features, for example, tall mountains:

Everest, Kilimanjaro, McKinley, Ranier

etc.

By: itchie

itchie — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:30:20 -0800

Eenie, Meenie, Mynee, Mo.

By: bshort

bshort — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:35:33 -0800

Opera, Firefox, IE, Mosaic

Linus, Tim, Richard, John

By: mkultra

mkultra — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:36:00 -0800

Back in the 90's the dot-com company I worked for bought a software company in CA. Their rooms were named after the rooms in Clue. Took a while to get the joke (and in the meantime, I couldn't for the life of me understand why anyone would name a conference room "The Conservatory"), but the payoff was satisfying.

By: bshort

bshort — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:37:50 -0800

mkultra's suggestion is pure genius.

By: Godbert

Godbert — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:45:29 -0800

mkultra wrote: Their rooms were named after the rooms in Clue.

Were there secret passages between some of the rooms? That would have made it even better.

By: matildaben

matildaben — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:49:37 -0800

One place I worked had conference rooms named after words that began with "In" but they left the "in" off. For instance, the big room with glass windows was called "Visible." The room used for job interviews was called "Terrogation".

By: TimeFactor

TimeFactor — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:54:59 -0800

iconomy, it's Shemp, not Shep. [pokes iconomy in the eye, _boing_, then crushes iconomy's nose with pliers, _meep_ , finally hits iconomy on head with frying pan, _clang_]

Lucy Ricky Fred Ethel
Groucho Chico Harpo Zeppo

By: robocop is bleeding

robocop is bleeding — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:57:02 -0800

Trying to dork it up some, here.

Allura, Pidge, Hunk, and Lance. Your main work area/office can be Keith.

Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa.

Ninja, Pirate, Robot, and Zombie.

Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin.

Fighter, Thief, Wizard, Cleric.

Kwame, Wheeler, Linka, and Gi. Ma-ti can kiss my butt.

By: necessitas

necessitas — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:57:07 -0800

Since it is a webdev firm, how about big names on the web: ebay, yahoo, etc.?

By: ewkpates

ewkpates — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:57:42 -0800

Oak, Elm, Birch, Hazel

By: unixrat

unixrat — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:58:35 -0800

Foreign cities: Toronto, Paris, Moscow, Pescaqxaticzal, Bombay, etc
Confusing names: The room with no name, outside, the room below this one, the roof, here, there, etc
NA Tribes: Ojibwe, Lakota, Hopi, Navajo, Blackfoot, etc.

If you know that it's only going to be four rooms, the 'Seasons' that was suggested above is really appealing.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:59:46 -0800

Another vote for John, Paul, George and Ringo. Also consider Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr (or even Starkey if you want to confuse the uninitiated).

Or...

Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars.
Heart, Diamond, Spade, Club.
Cup, Wand, Coin, Sword.
Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo.
Kermit, Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo.
Ryu, Ken, Chun Li, Blanka.
Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman, Mummy.

You might need more buildings.

By: gnomeloaf

gnomeloaf — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:02:47 -0800

White, Red, Blue, Green. (allows for future conference rooms such as Black, Artifact, and Combination)
Bingo, Bango, Bongo, Irving.
Barry, Maurice, Robin, Andy.
Po, La-La, Tinky-Winky, Dipsy.
Inky, Winky, Pinky, Clyde.
Mike, Micky, Peter, Davy.
Oobi, Keko, Uma, Grampu.

By: trevyn

trevyn — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:04:15 -0800

Holodeck, Engineering, Sickbay, Transporter Room, Ten Forward, etc.

By: madajb

madajb — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:10:12 -0800

A,B,C,D.

I dislike cutesy names for rooms.

I'd hope that "Meet me in Dwarf" would lose it's appeal after a few weeks.

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:11:31 -0800

Bingo, Bango, Bongo, Irving.

The Mosquitoes!

By: teg

teg — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:17:39 -0800

You could follow the scheme I used for my goldfishes:
Hannibal, Murdoch, Faceman, Barracas

By: ObscureReferenceMan

ObscureReferenceMan — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:17:52 -0800

Bob, Carol, Ted, Alice.

I must be a total dork, but I think mkultra's idea wins.

And bDiddy, isn't Yellow Bile "Choler", and Black Bile, well... just "Bile".

By: TimeFactor

TimeFactor — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:18:48 -0800

CMYK

By: ObscureReferenceMan

ObscureReferenceMan — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:20:22 -0800

bondcliff - That's great! And it reminded me, how about:
Fleagle, Bingo, Drooper, Snork

By: elle.jeezy

elle.jeezy — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:23:04 -0800

New York, Paris, London, Munich.

By: punilux

punilux — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:24:25 -0800

0,1,2,3
Alpha, Beta, RC1, Gold

By: elle.jeezy

elle.jeezy — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:24:38 -0800

New York, London, Paris, Munich.

By: Scoo

Scoo — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:00:32 -0800

Reed, Sue, Johnny, Ben
Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel, Security

By: johnj

johnj — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:12:51 -0800

DIV
SPAN
#class
.id

By: CrunchyFrog

CrunchyFrog — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:14:02 -0800

Computer related company?
Babbage, Lovelace, Turing, von Neumann.

By: me3dia

me3dia — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:35:37 -0800

Square, Triangle, Circle, X
A, B, Select, Start

By: komilnefopa

komilnefopa — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:44:51 -0800

Belgian artists: Magritte, Broodthaers, Delvaux, Ensor

By: bDiddy

bDiddy — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:48:26 -0800

Of course ObscureReferenceMan picks up on an obscure reference. According to wiki, it's yellow and black bile. Though choleric is one of the four temperaments.
So, to not derail this too much how about, "Sanguine, Phlegmatic, Choleric, Melancholic".

I don't think they're as good as the Voltron ones though.

By: littleme

littleme — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:51:06 -0800

Apple in the UK used to name their conference rooms after sci-fi characters. Or, at least, as a journalist I was taken into Slartibartfast more than once to view yet-to-be-released machines...

By: Satapher

Satapher — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:10:29 -0800

delmore, mossby, pilcrow & pomegranate

By: Netzapper

Netzapper — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:27:34 -0800

bin, dev, proc, lib

0, 1, 2, 3

Michaelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, Donatello

By: Specklet

Specklet — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:27:58 -0800

My ideas are already taken, so I'll second:

Harpo, Chico, Groucho, Zeppo
eenie, meenie, mienie, mo
Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart

And I really like the suggestion of confusing room names:

here, there, upstairs, downstairs

By: Sara Anne

Sara Anne — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:30:04 -0800

Birth, School, Work, Death

By: muddgirl

muddgirl — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:33:31 -0800

what, no one has suggested 00, 01, 10, 11?

By: Triode

Triode — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:34:24 -0800

I dislike cutesy names, because they don't scale, and they are not self-documenting. But if you must: Scott, Adams, Jones, Clark

By: Sara Anne

Sara Anne — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:35:21 -0800

Joey, Dee Dee, Johnny, Tommy

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:38:01 -0800

I nearly agree with bshort, but think you should use full names.
Tim Berners-Lee, Alan Turing, Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace.

By: Sara Anne

Sara Anne — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:40:10 -0800

Maggie, Hopey, Izzy, Terry

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:43:49 -0800

Aha, Also beaten by crunchy frog.
My second go is for (pantone?) names for web-safe colours. e.g.
Strong Emerald, Brilliant Orange, Vivid Magenta, Deep Orchid.

By: gnomeloaf

gnomeloaf — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:11:14 -0800

There, Their, Hear and Here

:), :(, ;) and :P

By: pmbuko

pmbuko — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:31:18 -0800

Eenie, Meanie, Miney, Moe

By: pmbuko

pmbuko — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:33:05 -0800

damn it, itchie! (i searched for moe)

By: kindall

kindall — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:36:16 -0800

MetaFilter: as a journalist I was taken into Slartibartfast more than once

By: gleuschk

gleuschk — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:42:10 -0800

PLEASE please please let us know what you decide.

sine, cosine, secant, cosecant (room to expand into tan and cot)
head, shoulders, knees, toes
lions, tigers, bears, oh my!
air, earth, fire, water
guanine, adenine, thymine, cytosine (G,A,T,C to keep it a little mysterious)
addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
penny, nickel, dime, quarter

By: thinman

thinman — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:55:50 -0800

"PLEASE please please let us know what you decide."

I certainly will. The final decision isn't mine alone, so it'll take a few days.

There have been many excellent suggestions so far. I appreciate the help.

By: abingham

abingham — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:12:02 -0800

roast beef, ray, phillipe, lyle

By: chaschas

chaschas — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:24:18 -0800

Alt, Ctrl, Shift, Esc
<br> 1,2,3,4</head>

By: clh

clh — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:52:00 -0800

Cell Blocks A, B, C & D
Manny, Moe, Jack & Diane

By: furiousthought

furiousthought — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:05:22 -0800

Also going for dork here. Mostly.

R, O, F, L.
Warrior, Wizard, Valkyrie, Elf.
Thing, Torch, Fantastic, and Invisible.
Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, someone else. Apollo? Then if you get four more rooms you can do Hera, Athena, Aphrodite, Diana.
Callisto, Ganymede, Europa, Io.
Yosemite, Fudd, Coyote, Devil.
(Dodge! Parry! Spin! Ha! (-the closet) Thrust!)
Spike, Jet, Faye, Eddy.
Porthos, Athos, Aramis, D.
Tiger! Mantis! Crane! Dragon! You have to use the exclamation points.
Dork, Wuss, Geek, Nerd.

By: signal

signal — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:06:46 -0800

Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Phoenix, Shadowcat

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:17:15 -0800

Room A, Room B, Room D, Room E. You'll be able to tell people you hate to meet you in Room C and never have to see them again.

By: holycola

holycola — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:19:40 -0800

Kirk, Picard, Sisko and Janeway (happy to leave off the 5th)

By: Asparagirl

Asparagirl — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:21:32 -0800

Spectacles, Testicles, Wallet, and Watch.

By: bystander

bystander — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:34:40 -0800

I will un-endorse elle.jeezy's suggestion of names of cities. I worked in a UK firm that did this (European cities) that was bought by a multi-national.
A non-English as a first language colleague from Switzerland ended up in Munich (the city, and our regional head office) when he should have used the dial-in number to talk to the Brits in Munich (the Cambridge meeting room).

Much hilarity and embarassment.

By: electric_counterpoint

electric_counterpoint — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:41:11 -0800

You can't do much better than Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short.

(Or, if you're up on your Pynchon, Salitieri, Poore, Nash, De Brutus and Short)

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:06:02 -0800

I'm pretty sure elle.jeezy was referencing "Pop Music."

By: RobotHero

RobotHero — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:09:30 -0800

Apple Duck Christmastree Wheelbarrow

By: jjg

jjg — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:11:13 -0800

You can't do much better than Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short.

I think he said there were four conference rooms. If only there were a way to find out for sure!

By: richtea

richtea — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:53:35 -0800

pernod, ouzo, marmalade and salt

matthew, mark, luke and john

george, jerry, elaine and kramer (or possibly Cosmo)

By: signal

signal — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:19:45 -0800

and, or, not, xor

By: signal

signal — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:21:48 -0800

thhgttg, trateotu, ltuae, slatfotf

By: megatherium

megatherium — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:37:03 -0800

We were told when we set up a new branch office with a new network that we had to name our two printers. So we call them "Bill" and "George". Perhaps the Obscure guy had it right.

By: PurplePorpoise

PurplePorpoise — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:43:33 -0800

Tumor
Rubor
Calor
Dolar

(swelling, redness, heat. & pain - the 4 classical parameters of inflammation)

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:06:32 -0800

I just hope you actually use the names. At a former job we were asked to come up with fun names for the conference rooms, and everybody had a great time coming up with clever (and only some inappropriate) names, then management decided to scrap them and go with boring safe names. This was symbolic of a lot of unpleasant changes happening in the company, and frankly I'm still a little bitter.

By: Kickstart70

Kickstart70 — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 23:55:06 -0800

A webdev firm, eh? How geeky are the folks there?

Thor, Thyra, Merlin, Questor

Props to the first person who knows it without using a search engine.

By: Kickstart70

Kickstart70 — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 23:57:17 -0800

s/Thyra/Thydra/

By: ckemp

ckemp — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:06:44 -0800

Firefox, Explorer, Opera, Safari.

Or keeping it old-style: Mosaic, Netscape, Explorer, Phoenix

(Or any other variation on browser names.)

By: corvine

corvine — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 04:55:16 -0800

big-fish, little-fish, cardboard, box.

By: eriko

eriko — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:07:38 -0800

Souix, Soo, Sue, Sou, or if you prefer, Karat, Carrot, Caret, Carat.

By: rorycberger

rorycberger — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:09:25 -0800

pointer, middle, ring, pinky

[although I think asparagirl wins]

By: me3dia

me3dia — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:26:31 -0800

R, O, F, L.

Even better: R, T, F, M

By: CrunchyGods

CrunchyGods — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 07:50:45 -0800

Birth, School, Work, Death

or

Frank, Sammy, Dean, Joey

By: thinman

thinman — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:50:13 -0800

Sigh. More than a month later, and after a couple of company-wide votes, we were informed today that the owners made an executive decision, choosing to name the rooms after buildings the company previously had offices in.

Oh well. Thanks to everyone for the fine suggestions.

By: PenDevil

PenDevil — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:22:30 -0800

Howzabout Portland Blazer players in the Hall Of Fame:
Drexler, Wilkens, Walton