OT: The passing of Pluto

[Dar Scott]

On Aug 24, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:

> I wonder
> how long it will be before we get "AT&T Pluto" or "Halliburton Ceres".

Company names are always changing, too.  Here in the US, many large  
corporations are being bought out by companies from overseas, a  
consequence, in part, of the high government deficit in the US.  Name  
changes with education campaigns follow.

Here in New Mexico supermarkets went through a soap opera frenzy of  
buying, selling, merging, selling off, so that in a few months a few  
years back almost all supermarkets I knew changed names and some  
within a few blocks of each other ended up swapping names.  (For all  
I know that happened nation wide or world wide.)  Here it was more  
than a name change; I learned that district leadership and national  
management really does make a difference.

> ...and there's a town in Japan that got renamed Toyota.

In New Mexico, over a half century ago, the town of Hot Springs New  
Mexico (often spelled without the comma and always said with the  
state name) changed its name to Truth or Consequences after the TV  
show.  It never changed it back.

Dar