Changing Your Name To .com
from the time-to-get-a-life dept
Thought all that internet craziness ended last year? Remember the idiotic "dot com guy" who didn't make any money and changed his name for no real reason? Well, now there's a new fool to take his place. Some guy in Israel has legally changed his last name to .com (and that's what he wants his friends to call him now also). His explanation for why he did it is even worse. "Say I meet a girl, for instance, and I don't get her number. That could have been a missed opportunity, but now it won't be because she'll always know where to find me." No offense to Mr. .com, but if he's that hard up for a date, I get the feeling this might make the situation even worse.
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