US News Topeka 'renames' itself 'Google, Kansas'

[tom_mai78101]

(CNN) -- At 79, Bill Bunten doesn't exactly understand the Internet boom. The Topeka, Kansas, mayor has an e-mail account, he said, but his assistants take care of most of his online communications and tend to search the Web for him.

But Bunten believes so firmly that younger residents of Kansas' capital city will benefit from faster Internet connections that he wants Topeka -- which he describes as a place of many lakes and the site of a burgeoning market for animal-food research -- to change its name for a month.

In a formal proclamation Monday, Bunten announced his city will be known as "Google" -- Google, Kansas.

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[ReVolver]

I was going to get a heart attack until I found out it was only for a month.

 

[tom_mai78101]

Why get mad when you get the Google fad?

 

[CysticCraze]

I wonder if I mail something to that adress if it will work.

I wanna name my city wiki.

 

[FireCat]

kinda funny idea... But It should been moar than a month. hehe

 

[WolSHaman]

doesn't this break some sort of copyright infringement law? Or, if Google paid for the name change I reply meh, we already new our corporate capitalist overlords were gonna do this eventually!

 

[Azlier]

What's so bad about hitchhikers?

 

[FireCat]

What's so bad about hitchhikers?

Well, that's why!
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Do you want this? hehe

 

[Wiseman_2]

Rutger Hauer is one scary bastard.

 

[FireCat]

Rutger Hauer is one scary bastard.

Yeah
Well, Someone wants to pick up a hitchhikers? hehe

 

[T.s.e]

Am I the only one who thinks that sign looks photoshopped?

 

[UndeadDragon]

Am I the only one who thinks that sign looks photoshopped?

No, I also thought that at first

 

[Dark_Phoenix]

Am I the only one who thinks that sign looks photoshopped?

A CNN photo illustration welcomes travelers to Topeka

It was photoshopped.