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."

Leave the guy alone.

[GNUALMAFUERTE]

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

I'll do better than that: clone army

[cerberusss]

city councilman Bonner Gaylord has offered to name his unborn children Sergey and Larry, after the founders of Google

I'll do better than that. If Google builds a high-speed fiber-optic network to my apartment block, I will create an army of clones, each platoon named after either Sergey or Larry.

Re:Asshole

[dingen]

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

Oh, It's a revenge!

[GNUALMAFUERTE]

FTFA:

RALEIGH, N.C. — Raleigh City Councilman Bonner Gaylord

Ok, please sit down and think about it. This guy's name is BONNER GAYLORD.

He's just trying to get back at his parents, by giving his kids horrible names. Bonner Gaylord. //Goes to check The Onion, to make sure the story wasn't pulled from there

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.

Re:Asshole

[Rhaban]

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

Just one moment...

[Redlemons]

This story is 3 days early.

CREEPY CREEPY CREEPY

[macbeth66]

If it were my company, and this guy proposed such a thing, the LAST thing I would do is consider his city. I would want to be at least several states away.

Someone get the butterfly net...

Re:Asshole

[dingen]

At least it's not Boner Gaylord.

Re:Asshole

[dingen]

Boner Gaylord Jr

Are we still talking about his child?

Touching

[tarscher]

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

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.

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.

Lesser of three evils...

[jwoah12]

If you look on the bright side, it prevents the kid from being called Bonner Junior (B.J. Gaylord).

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.