Wow, a natural hat-trick of Des Moines greenlights.

Indeed. And none involved corn or Dubuque, either.

/stubmitter

DOA, also used to describe what happens to most people when they find themselves in Des Moines.

Displaying his opinion as per Mandate 55.6.89B: Approves

In before someone does the painfully obvious thing by posting a picture of the ban DOA

Jonathan Hohensee: In before someone does the painfully obvious thing by posting a picture of the ban DOA

In a certain sense you stop aging when you die. In another sense that when you start aging.

I was hoping for Deparment of Elder Aging Development.

/Iowan
//Call it wahtever, someone will have a problem with it.

As long as they are renaming things, why not rename truant officers to Public Education Department Officers.

FTA: ""I am offended by the use of the acronym for the department," said Rep. Dave Heaton, a 68-year-old Republican from Mount Pleasant. "You can't have an acronym like this when you're referring to elderly people. I don't like it.""

OK, it was stupid, but OFFENDED??? It was a dumb mistake, Davey boy. Get over it and stop being such an old prick.

An agency as excitingly different as its title?

Edmond O'Brien and Dennis Quaid unavailable for comment.

I jumped out of my chair laughing when I read that. Thank you subby and thank you Iowa.

I'm so pedantic that I thought "Shouldn't it be Department of Gerontological Resources" in order to obscure their purpose, before I caught on.

I work for CALtrans TRaffic OPerationS, so I'm getting a cick out of these replies...

How about Geriatric External Training Operations For Fighting Misanthropic Youths Lazy Antisocial Whippersnappers & Ne'er-do-wells?

carrion_luggage: How about Geriatric External Training Operations For Fighting Misanthropic Youths Lazy Antisocial Whippersnappers & Ne'er-do-wells?

Nice

Joelogon

Indeed. And none involved corn or Dubuque, either.

/stubmitter

I just saw one of my DMR links got approved; pretty sure that Iowa's getting just as bad as Florida.

Department of Aging has a great ring to it, though. Think of all the good they could spread; on Halloween the DOA could come to all the nursing homes dressed as Reapers handing out candy with the residents.

I work at the Pennsylvania Department of Aging, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

Simple solution:

Department of Human Aging

Boom. Fixed.

Some people don't like the word "elderly," noted Rep. Janet Petersen, D-Des Moines, who led discussion on Senate File 204.

..wtf

flannelled fool: Jonathan Hohensee: In before someone does the painfully obvious thing by posting a picture of the ban DOA

So close, yet so far away.

Gyrfalcon: "I am offended by the use of the acronym for the department," said Rep. Dave Heaton, a 68-year-old Republican from Mount Pleasant. "You can't have an acronym like this when you're referring to elderly people. I don't like it.""

Not an acronym. USA, NDA, and DOA are not acronyms.

NASA is an acronym.