Re: Turok In The News

[Richard W Travsky <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>]

I think a loophole here is that the parents could give Turok as the middle
name.

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, David Marjanovic wrote:

> I can't resist...
> 
> >  The company received thousands of responses earlier this month when it
> >  offered $766 (500 pounds) and an Xbox game console to British residents
> >  willing to legally change their name to Turok.
> 
> :-D :-D :-D
> 
> I can imagine the next few movie hypes. "Hello, I'm Superman, who are you?"
> "Sure, and I'm the emperor of China." "Nah really!"
> 
> >  Acclaim's U.S. promotion offers $10,000 in savings bonds for the first
> >  baby born Sept. 1 to bear the name Turok. Prospective parents must
> >  register and agree to rules posted on the contest Web site by Aug. 31.
> 
> Great. Imagine that poor kid when it's in school... it will be accompanied
> by laughing fits wherever it goes, and will be helplessly poor because the
> savings bonds got Enronitis long ago. <sing> What a wonderful world...
> </sing>
> 
> >  What could be better than being the father of the dinosaur hunter?
> 
> "And here's my son Turok." "So you must be the famous stone."
> 
> 
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