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."

Comments

Asshole

[DoofusOfDeath]

So his kid may have to go through life with an arbitrarily bad name, because it will help this guy's career and/or home town?

I wonder what other kinds of crap this guy is going to pull over the next 18 years. Poor kid.

Re:Asshole

[dingen]

His kids will be Gaylords, no matter what he calls 'em.

Re:Asshole

[Rhaban]

Sergey or Gary Gaylord can't be worse names than Bonner Gaylord.

Re:Asshole

[Manfre]

Sergey and Larry are not really bad names considering his kids will already be teased for their last name. It's not like he's going to name the kids "Adolf Hitler Gaylord" or "Sarah Palin Gaylord", like those other parent of the year candidates. I would feel bad for a girl if she was named Sergey or Larry.

I'm curious if Google would rip out all the fiber if/when Mr Gaylord fails to provide children.

Re:Asshole

[dingen]

At least it's not Boner Gaylord.

Re:Asshole

[krou]

Sergey and Larry are not really bad names considering his kids will already be teased for their last name

Not until the one kid gets the nickname Sir Gay Gaylord.

Leave the guy alone.

[GNUALMAFUERTE]

Maybe he's internet-starved. You would sell your mother and all your future generations for some sweet bandwidth ;)

Think of the children!

[Anonymous Coward]

If your father were named "Boner Gaylord" you would want someone outside the gene pool to name you too. Might as well be Google.

I'll spin the straw into gold.

[Culture20]

But in return, you must give me your first born child.

Who do we work for anymore?

[The Angry Mick]

Ourselves or the fucking corporations? Have we sunk so low that we're offering our CHILDREN up to the gods of corporate benevolence?

And how much do you want to bet that along with the offer of surrendering his offspring's identity, there's an additional offer of either a hefty tax break, or even a free pass?

Touching

[tarscher]

Touching what men wants to do to download porn at high speed.

Re:I'll do better than that: clone army

[clone53421]

Am I supposed to register somewhere?

Not the weirdest proposed by a municipal authority

[homey of my owney]

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.

Re:humanity

[SteveFoerster]

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.