Oh COME ON! It's a deliberate joke name, picked purely to generate publicity! And seriously, if your chain is called "Gaylord", would you EVER pick "Palms" as the name of your hotel? Of course you wouldn't!

And if you did, and if you had a recruitment hotline ...

407-586-OWOW

I swear I'm not making this up! Check the links if you don't believe me!

"Ow, ow !" indeed.

(But, as parent correctly predicts - I've never stayed at a Gaylord, or even "been in a Gaylord" for that matter. I did seriously consider staying one night so I could steal some bathrobes for some of my gaylord friends, though ...)

I think the slippery slope began when "personnel" departments got renamed as "human resources".