yono-
i'm glad it was a hoax - imagine the neighbourhood listening to his
lunatic mother calling him for supper - "yahoo! yahoo! it's supper
time!"
-steve
i'm glad it was a hoax - imagine the neighbourhood listening to his
lunatic mother calling him for supper - "yahoo! yahoo! it's supper
time!"
-steve
--- In [email protected], Suyono <suyonohy@d...> wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> There's an interesting news from Reuters
> (January 13, 2005.) - Search "Lucian Yahoo".
>
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>
> BUCHAREST (Reuters) - A Romanian couple named their
> son Yahoo as a sign of gratitude for meeting over
> the Internet, a Bucharest newspaper said Thursday.
>
> Daily Libertatea said Cornelia and Nonu Dragoman,
> both from Transylvania, met and decided they were
> meant for each other following a three-month
> relationship over the net.
>
> They married and had a baby this Christmas, whom
> they decided to name after one of the worldwide
> web's most popular portals. "We named him Lucian
> Yahoo after my father and the net, the main beacon
> of my life," Cornelia Dragoman was quoted as
> saying.
>
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>
> Bye.
> Suyono
>
> PS: Eleven days later, an update said that it was
> a hoax.
>
>
> Steve wrote:
> >
> > PS, suyono-
> > yes, indeed, "yahoo" is an insult, and i have
> > used it many times, especially while driving a
> > car, as in "that yahoo almost hit me". one can
> > also yell "yahoo" while going really fast.
> > -S
> >