On Bell Towers and Proper Nouns

Today's commute was all about Walt.  About how Walt can read.  About how Walt knows the names of things. About how much Walt knows about . . . well . . . everything.  As told by . . . who else? . . . Walt.

W:  One time when Meredith was over at my house watching Star Wars, I read the part at the beginning that tells about the episode.
A:  Meh (or something else insufficiently enthusiastic)
W:  That sign says 'New York.'
A:  How did you know that?
W:  Because I can read.
. . . . . . 
W:  Do you know that bell tower across from Schnucks?  I think I just saw it.
A:  What?
W:  The bell tower.  The one across from Schnucks.  Do you know it?
A:  (emphatic) Where?
W:  (exasperated)  At Schnucks.  (exhale)  Schnucks is the big store.  Where you go in.  And they have the cookies at the front . . . .
A:  Oh yeah.  I've been there.
W:  There's a bell tower across the street that has bells in it that they ring.
. . . . . .
(Lengthy discussion about The Force, its uses, various practice sessions for its use, the varying degrees of said Force, things The Force can and can't accomplish, etc., etc.)

W:  There's another bell tower up here that you can see.  It's by where the smokestack is.  It has a college hat on it.
A:  (ignoring the fact that Walt just said a bell tower had "a college hat on it")  Where?
W:  Up here (rounding the corner, at which time the three of us are craning our necks for a glimpse of what must be a very strange looking building).
A:  I don't see it.
W:  It's taller than the other buildings, and it has a college hat on it.  See that little pointy thing?  See?
A:  That one right there?
W:  Yeah.  See?  It has on a college hat.

Sure enough.  The bell tower at the UT Health Science Center campus has a teeny tiny little . . . well . . . mortarboard-looking thing on top it.  But Mr. Smartypants just calls it a "college hat."
. . . . . . 
A:  Hey.  There's the basketball stadium.
W:  It's called FedExForum.  You can call it FedExForum.
A:  It's a basketball stadium.  I can call it a basketball stadium.
W:  But its name is FedExForum.
A:  I can call it a basketball stadium if I want.
W:  But, like, if someone said, "Hey, where are you going to watch the basketball game?"  You would say, "At FedExForum."

The fact that Walt had just referred to a mortarboard atop a bell tower as a "college hat" was completely lost on Adam.