Raleigh Councilman Offers Child Naming Rights To Google 121
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."
I'll spin the straw into gold. (Score:5, Interesting)
Espn Real (Score:3, Interesting)
Have we sunk so low that we're offering our CHILDREN up to the gods of corporate benevolence?
If so, it's nothing new. Case in port: Espn Real [badbreeders.net].
Re:Asshole (Score:3, Interesting)
Sergey or Gary Gaylord can't be worse names than Bonner Gaylord.
In Portuguese, "Sergey" is pronounced exactly like "ser gay", which means "to be gay". Sergey Gaylord would be quite amusing. :P
Re:CREEPY CREEPY CREEPY (Score:3, Interesting)
Too bad they have a data center a few hundred miles away. Raleigh and Google have a rather good relationship, Raleigh has given Google massive tax breaks to get them to move into Lenor. Being that those tax breaks come out of my wallet, the least they can do is put some fiber in my neighborhood for me.
Sadly, I live in Cary, which is one of raleighs outlaying cities ... we probably won't get hooked up and will get left being raped by Time Warner when they raise the price to compensate.