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Raleigh Councilman Offers Child Naming Rights To Google

Posted by samzenpus on from the youtube-is-your-godfather dept.

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."

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  1. Asshole by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Asshole by dingen · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    2. Re:Asshole by Rhaban · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    3. Re:Asshole by Manfre · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

    4. Re:Asshole by dingen · · Score: 4, Funny

      At least it's not Boner Gaylord.

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    5. Re:Asshole by krou · · Score: 4, Funny

      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.

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  2. Leave the guy alone. by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  3. I'll spin the straw into gold. by Culture20 · · Score: 4, Interesting

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

  4. Who do we work for anymore? by The+Angry+Mick · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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?

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  5. Touching by tarscher · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  6. Re:I'll do better than that: clone army by clone53421 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Am I supposed to register somewhere?

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