## Seriously? We’re Naming Tents Now?
Right, because what Harrisburg *really* needs is a public referendum on the nomenclature of temporary shade structures. Apparently, the crucial societal issues – crumbling infrastructure, affordable housing, the impending doom of cicadas – are all just fine and dandy, easily ignored while we collectively agonize over whether to call this fabric-covered lean-to “The Pavilion” or… wait for it… “Tenty McTentface.”
I’m not even kidding. *Tenty McTentface*. Someone genuinely believed this was a viable option. A contender worthy of being enshrined in the annals of market history. It’s peak internet, distilled into a single, agonizingly silly proposition. I can practically hear the brainstorming session: “Okay team, we need something…memorable! Something that screams ‘community engagement!’ How about we embrace the absurd?”
Look, I appreciate the attempt at lightheartedness. I really do. But this feels less like charming quirkiness and more like a desperate cry for attention disguised as democratic participation. Do we *really* want to be known as “the town that named its tent Tenty McTentface”? Imagine the tourism brochures: “Visit Harrisburg! Home of The Pavilion…formerly known as, you guessed it…”
“The Pavilion” is perfectly adequate. It’s dignified. It’s functional. It doesn’t require a collective eye-roll and a sigh of existential despair. But no, we need to involve everyone in this monumentally pointless decision. We need the people! To choose between something respectable and…a pun so bad it circles back to being strangely compelling.
Frankly, I’m expecting “Tenty McTentface” to win. Because why wouldn’t it? It’s the internet, after all. And the internet thrives on absurdity.
