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Google announces surprise corporate name change - 04-01-2010, 12:17 PM

Today Google announced that it was changing the corporate name to Topeka.
Official Google Blog: A different kind of company name

What the hell are they trying to prove with a change like this? I now have to Topeka my questions and also change all my sarcasm programs to reflect this idiotic move
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04-01-2010, 12:21 PM

April Fools?

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04-01-2010, 12:27 PM

Yes it is.

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04-01-2010, 12:31 PM

Gotcha, Tom!

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04-01-2010, 12:33 PM

Hahahah, they got u
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04-01-2010, 12:39 PM

Perhaps this is Tom's April Fool's joke on TPF?

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04-01-2010, 12:40 PM

No ! on the contrary !! I got you all if you thought I wasn't aware !!! April Fools to you.
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04-01-2010, 12:40 PM

Actually, I think he's trying to April Fool's us.

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Actually, I think he's trying to April Fool's us.
Amen.
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04-01-2010, 12:47 PM

Just for the record I called it both ways.

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04-01-2010, 01:00 PM

Let's make sure ... let me Topeka that for you.

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04-01-2010, 01:48 PM

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Actually, I think he's trying to April Fool's us.
As if you couldn't smell this one a mile away... He would've done better trying to convince us that Dr. Pepper was changing its name to Dr. Pepper, OBGYN.
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04-01-2010, 06:04 PM

Due to the vowel outage this morning, mine just came up as TPK...Thanks for the clarification, Tom, now I can get on with the day's bidness......Ben

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