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Couple names baby Yahoo

By Tim Richardson
Published Thursday 13th January 2005 14:44 GMT

A newborn baby boy has been named “Yahoo” by a Romanian couple – cos they met over the net.

Mum and Dad – Cornelia and Nonu Dragoman – courted online for three months before finally tying the knot, reports a local paper by way of Reuters. Lucian Yahoo Dragoman was born last month.

“We named him Lucian Yahoo after my father and the net, the main beacon of my life,” said mum Cornelia.

Aaaaaahhh!

from: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/13/yahoo_baby/
note: this isn’t the original article i saw on CNN (and from Reuters)

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One Response to “Couple names baby Yahoo”

  1. random nonsense Says:
    March 4th, 2005 at 1:43 pm

    Yahoo! baby revealed as hoax

    ‘It was the reporter’s child’s birth certificate, which he modified,’ the news agency quotes the Libertatea’s deputy editor-in-chief, Simona Ionescu. ‘We fired him.’……

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