US burg renames self 'Google' Google is looking for US locations to test its own ultra-high-speed fibre optic networks, and there's no city more eager to be chosen than Google, Kansas. Bill Bunten, mayor of the state capital formally known as Topeka, Kansas signed a proclamation on Monday temporarily renaming the city "Google" in an effort to convince the …
"Bugs Bunny, the 21 year old mayor of Nowheria, Indiana announced his town would rename itself to "MacDonalds" so that its citizens would hopefully get a free burger now that most of them have just been laid of by the local General Motors exhaust pipe plant"
"The Economist praises New York's mayor for considering to rename itself "AIG City Of Graft" in a bid to attract more business to this truely international hub of finance. Other naming options considered include "New Babel" and "Caninia" ".
"Now that London is becoming more and more aggressive in attracting the global financial talent, we had to do something to demostrate our uncompromising committment to creative naming solutions", said YaVaugnie Bloodyberg, mayor of (still) New York.
"... probably wants to be famous for something other than the Westboro Baptist Church."
Brown v. Board of Education.
"And to be fair to Google, at the moment they're probably less evil than the Westboro Baptist Church."
Chairman Jobs disagrees.
WBC has been in my town this week protesting issue du jour. After they were outnumbered by counter-protestors 10-1 on Monday morning, they skipped their evening protest. 250 counter-protestors still showed up. They did appear yesterday in friendlier territory in the neighboring city, where Pat Robertson lives.
You truly don't know the meaning of the expression of "Get out of Dodge" until you grew up in Topeka or Dodge City, Kansas. For a small city, Topeka has a lot of crime and drug use. Former city managements has shown a track record of denial: They've attempted to turn Topeka into a 'Big City' like KC, rather than sticking to it's small town roots. I guess these ideals can come into clash easily, being it the capital city of... Kansas.
Dodge City is another hilarity. Growing up in a small town is one thing, but growing up in a small town and literally living out Miranda Lamberts 'Everybody Dies Famous in a Small Town' song begins to wear. Dodge City is so isolated, if you want to to go a city for conveniences, the closest is Wichita. The nearest big sized city is either Denver or Kansas City, both approximately equidistant.
Then again, theres others, who cherish the self-inflicted isolationist heritage. It's nice being able to wake up in the morning in a lawn chair in my back 'yard', butt naked, with my Remmington 870 by my side, and a champagne glass of orange juice. Ah... now THIS is what America is about folks.
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