Oh no you didn’t, Topeka.
According to the San Francisco Business Times, in a bid to lure Google and its ultrafast fiber-optic network to its fine city, Topeka, Kansas has renamed itself Google, Kansas for the month of March.
According to the paper:
William Bunten, Topeka’s mayor, signed a proclamation to that effect on Monday — his signature was right below “Google, Kansas — the capital city of fiber optics” but also beside the embossed seal that still reads “The capital city of Kansas: Topeka.”
The story goes on to point out that Hot Springs, New Mexico, tried a similar stunt decades ago, changing its name to Truth or Consequences after the popular ’50s radio quiz show. Unfortunately, in this case, the change was permanent, despite that the city better known to New Mexicans as T or C is rife with hot springs. (And that Truth or Consequences sounds like a creepy place out of a David Cronenberg film.)
