Parents Name Child Yahoo

[Niamh_Saoirse]

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91059-13281592,00.html

Romanian couple have named their son Yahoo because they met on the internet.

The Transylvanian couple wooed each other over the net for three months.


Cornelia and Nonu Dragoman finally tied the knot and had a baby at Christmas, the Daily Libertatea reported.

So they named their first child Yahoo in honour of one of the world's biggest search engine.

"We named him Lucian Yahoo after my father and the net, the main beacon of my life," Cornelia Dragoman said.





Poor kid...I hope he doesn't get beaten up in school.

Although, seeing this is the age of techonology and computers, he might be considered cool...

 

[ladywithspinninghead]

Yikes!

I wonder if a couple who met at Interference would name their child after it....Hmmm...

 

[bsp77]

It's only a middle name, most people probably won't even know.

 

[Muggsy]

...

 

[Laura M]

I was just reading this

 

[enajh2]

Do you think he'll have to pay royalties?

 

[Niamh_Saoirse]

Imagine Brian and I having a kid and naming it ICQ McGlinchey??

 

[Mr. BAW]

One of the first things that BAW and I shared was a cookie...imagine calling our first child Mrs. Fields ???

 

[BAW]

I think our first meal together was at Carl's Jr....we could have a child named Famous Star Estrada!

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

Hey, it could have been Google

 

[U2democrat]

I just told one of my friends this and she said "fucked up idiots."

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

I hope no one who meets here name their 1st born Interference.

 

[all_i_want]

well, it's the second best name after 'Seven', isnt it?


from seinfeld:

'Yeah, I guess I could see it. Seven. Seven periods of school, seven beatings a day. Roughly seven stitches a beating, and eventually seven years to life. ...'

how bad can Yahoo be?

 

[U2democrat]

I hope no one who meets here name their 1st born Interference.

Great idea...................

 

[DrTeeth]

It's not that original really;

 

[verte76]

Strange name, yeah, but what would life be like with no babies with strange names?

 

[U2democrat]

this is true. who else would you pick on in elementary school?

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

It's not that original really;

ah Yahoo Serious!

 

[Sheltie]

There was a girl in the my school named Placenta and another one named Overy.

 

[JimmyChicken]

It's not that original really;

Yahoo Serious aka Greg Pead.

Officially changed his name to "Yahoo" in 1980 years before the Internet company Yahoo! came along.

Read all about him here if you dare:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000635/bio

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

there's a bloke who changed his name legally

to include the words

'Level 42'
and then followed by
Level 42's complete discography
and then
the names of the members of Level 42

it's a pretty long name.

 

[melon]

It's not that original really;

Haha...you got it before I could say it.

Melon

 

[Calluna]

His real name was Greg Pead?? How unfortunate.

 

[bammo2]

damn.....beaten to the yahoo serious thing by several people

oh the wonder of the film 'young einstein'

 

[Numb1075]

Believe it or not, I met my wife in kindergarden at the tender age of 5. I was thinking of naming our first born "Block Corner".....but we had a change of heart and named him Andrew. lol

 

[deep]

It's not that original really;

yeah
that's what my gf calls me









































in bed.

 

[Bonochick]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/01/24/yahoo.baby.reut/index.html

Reporter fired for Yahoo baby hoax
Monday, January 24, 2005 Posted: 7:16 AM EST (1216 GMT)

BUCHAREST, Romania (Reuters) -- A Romanian tabloid says it has fired a reporter for making up a story about a couple who named their son Yahoo as a sign of gratitude for meeting over the Internet.

Earlier this month, major Bucharest daily Libertatea published a story saying two Romanians had named their baby Yahoo and printed a picture of his birth certificate. The news was widely picked up on the Internet.

"It was the reporter's child's birth certificate, which he modified," said Simona Ionescu, Libertatea's deputy editor-in-chief. "We fired him."

She said Ion Garnod, who had worked for the paper for several years, had admitted inventing the story to look good.

"If it were real, it would have been a good story indeed," Ionescu said.

Garnod was not available for comment.

 

[pepokiss]

It could have been worse... he could have beign named AOL...

now THAT'S worse


mmm... altavista peterson.. (not my last name, btw)

*finds out that the story is false *

 

[DaveC]

Reminds me of a Tragically Hip song called The Dark Canuck:

"if we ever get home
i'm gonna have me three children
Apple, Zippo and Metronome
that's what i'm gonna name them"