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Raleigh Councilman Offers Child Naming Rights To Google
Anonymous Meoward writes "In what may be the weirdest perk proposed by a municipal authority to entice business, city councilman Bonner Gaylord has offered to name his unborn children Sergey and Larry, after the founders of Google. All he wants in return is the search giant to build its proposed high-speed fiber-optic network in Raleigh."
Maybe he's internet-starved. You would sell your mother and all your future generations for some sweet bandwidth ;)
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His kids will be Gaylords, no matter what he calls 'em.
Pretty good is actually pretty bad.
If your father were named "Boner Gaylord" you would want someone outside the gene pool to name you too. Might as well be Google.
Sergey or Gary Gaylord can't be worse names than Bonner Gaylord.
At least it's not Boner Gaylord.
Pretty good is actually pretty bad.
Touching what men wants to do to download porn at high speed.
Not until the one kid gets the nickname Sir Gay Gaylord.
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Many years ago, the town of Radium Hot Springs, New Mexico, offered to change their name to "Truth or Consequences" to win a prize from the TV show of the same name. They thought it would bring in business, and notoriety. It's still a pretty quiet town, though it does have an amusing name... especially when the abbreviation (T or C) is pronounced as a word.
This guy is a politician that would do anything to get himself advanced in politics and it seems as if he would sell his first born to the devil if he could.
First and second born, actually, although on the other hand it's not like he's offering to name the kids William Gates Gaylord and Steven Ballmer Gaylord.
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