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More product placement

  • 14-11-2003 1:07pm
    #1
    Hobbes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭


    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3268161.stm
    .. a study has found. Children have been named after big brands as diverse as beauty company L'Oreal, car firm Chevrolet and designer clothes company Armani.

    There are even two little boys, one in Michigan and one in Texas, called ESPN after the sports channel.

    Psychology professor Cleveland Evans discovered the trend after surveying US social security records for 2000.

    Why in the hell would someone do this? o_O''

    Imagine sitting in a classroom with a kid called Persil or Armani. Just asking to your children years of grief.

    Although if they are checking the SS records, odds on it more then likely a SS scam.


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  • #2
    Syth
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    If this is true, the the children could set up say clothes companies called after their own name, eg Armani, and because it'd be their own name, the original company couldn't sue them for copyright infrigement. :D As far as I know, there's a guy in USA who's name is Ronald McDonald (more cruel parents), and he run's Ronald McDonald's Family Restaurant. :D


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