Sunday, November 04, 2007

Nearly 3,500 Chinese babies have been named 'Olympics'

Hope I am not doing to many off topic stories but I thought this one was cute. From the article: "... Most of the 3,491 people with the name "Aoyun," meaning Olympics, were born around the year 2000, as Beijing was bidding to host the 2008 Summer Games, the Beijing Daily reported, citing information from China's national identity card database. ...

The vast majority of people named Aoyun are male, the newspaper said. Only six live in Beijing. The report didn't say where the others live. ..." [Link]

From vagabondrhythm photostream at Flickr.com. Direct link [Link]

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