Bye-bye Bob

From: "Blackout" <blackout@404infomagic.net>
Date: Fri, Feb 22, 2002
Newsgroups: alt.slack

Bob rejected as name for Canadian province
Associated Press
Feb. 20, 2002 07:59:00

YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories - Bye-bye Bob. The Northwest
Territories of Canada won't be renamed Bob.

The legislature has decided to drop the search for a new name for the
territory for a second time.

Back in 1999, a poll suggested the most popular name was the current
one, followed by Bob.

Legislator Bill Braden says it looks like politicians got the message
that they should find better things to do.

But some citizens still don't like the name official name. The
provincial premier says Northwest Territories isn't a name, but a
direction

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0220Bob-ON.html

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