| ToPikachu From the Topeka Capitol-Journal online:
"Bunten said he had heard the suggestion to change Topeka's name to "Google" from Jim Ogle, general manager of WIBW-TV Channel 13.
Ogle told the council Monday about how Mayor Joan Wagnon in August 1998 issued a proclamation temporarily changing Topeka's name to "ToPikachu" in recognition of the nationwide kickoff here of the "Pokemon" media franchise, which features a fictional species of creatures named "Pikachu."
Ogle said that if Topeka could change its name "for a small doll that sounds like I sneezed," it could certainly do the same for Google."
Pokemon, Google - same thing to Kansas... |
