RE: Turok In The News

["Allan Edels" <edels@msn.Com>]

Actually, the rules state that it must be the child's first name:

        Promotion begins August 27, 2002 and ends 11:59:59 p.m. (Eastern
Time)   August 31, 2002. Expectant parents are invited to register
online at 
        www.turok.com or www.acclaim.com. The registered parent who
gives 
        birth closest to 12:00:01 a.m., September 1, 2002 and agrees to
make    "Turok" the first name of their newborn child for at least one
year...

Note that the REAL loophole is that you can rename the child after 1
year ends (you need to pay for that yourself, though).

I'm forwarding the info to my cousins, who are expecting Real Soon Now!

(My brother and spouse are no longer eligible - their first born arrived
2 weeks ago).  

:-)

Allan Edels 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu] On Behalf
Of Richard W Travsky
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 8:52 AM
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: Turok In The News

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."
> 
> 
>