Mayor Bunten believes so firmly that younger residents of Kansas' capital city will benefit from faster Internet connections that he wants Topeka -- which he describes as a place of many lakes and the site of a burgeoning market for animal-food research -- to change its name for a month.In a formal proclamation Monday, Bunten announced his city will be known as "Google" -- Google, Kansas.
"Kansas is what it is, but I was trying to explain to you down in Atlanta that Topeka is not on the prairie. Our rainfall here runs about 32 inches a year. If you get out to Manhattan [Kansas], where Kansas State University is, well, it gets flatter. The wheat fields go as far as you can see. But here it's not. There's lots of trees and lots of water and we're going to develop this riverfront into something very, very nice," he said.
Origin of state's name: From the Sioux Indian for "south wind people"....
In Other words Kansas, still down wind from Omaha Farts.. and that's not saying much.
