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Dating website wants City of Sugar Land to change its name

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  1. s land balla

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    If they paid me $500,000, I'd gladly give them the rights to s land balla. :grin:

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    Sugar Land is not for sale well, at least not for the $500,000 a dating website offered the east Texas city to change its name.

    Sugardaddie.com, which bills itself as the place "where the classy, attractive and affluent meet," offered Sugar Land half a million bucks to share the website's name for 10 years. Mayor James Thompson declined, but it was unclear if he thought it was a bad idea or if the site was simply too cheap of a date.

    "I'd consider any offer, but I get to do the zeroes and the decimal points, know what I mean?" Thompson told local radio station The 9-5-0 just before officially jilting the city of 80,000's suitor.

    Sugardaddie.com, which has offices in Miami, London and Los Angeles, made the offer in conjunction with Valentine's Day, which is also the dating site's 10th anniversary.

    "It's a marketing stunt, but that doesn't mean we're not looking to write a check too," the spokesman said.

    City spokesman Doug Adolph lauded the proposal, but said Sugar Land's name is worth a lot more than Sugardaddie.com offered.

    "These Californians are a lot more clever than we've given them credit for," Adolph said. "Clearly these folks are familiar with our city demographics, and the many accolades and awards that we've received in the past.

    "But we have an assessed valuation of over $10 billion," Adolph told FoxNews.com. "The naming rights for Constellation Field, where [Sugar Land's minor league baseball team] the Skeeters play, sold for substantially less than that.

    Sugardaddie.com's offer required that the city that lies 20 miles southwest of Houston reflect the new name at City Hall and on "official government correspondence and institutions," even the Sugar Land Regional Airport and Constellation Field. Oh, and the CEO of SugarDaddie.com demanded a key to the city.

    Unable to make a love connection with Sugar Land, Sugardaddie.com was mulling its options, the spokesman said. But being spurned must have been a strange feeling for a site that prides itself on combining money and matchmaking.

    "The site is basically for older rich dudes to meet younger, attractive women," he said. "That doesn't mean you have to have $10 million or even $1 million. It just means you like to travel, eat well, and your cellphone doesn't get cut off in the middle of a date."
     
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  2. Haymitch

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    Sugar Land is not East Texas
     
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  3. AMS

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    Represent. SugarDaddie, TX 77478
     
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  4. DarkHorse

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    You're right, it's part of the Carcinogenic Coast.

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  5. JuanValdez

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    That is not nearly enough money to interest a town like Sugar Land. But, then getting the articles written is free, and that's all they were interested in anyway.
     
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  7. Haymitch

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    How much is enough? If, say, the city of Dallas wanted to buy the name Houston and change it to South Dallas, how much would it take?
     
    #7 Haymitch, Feb 14, 2013
  8. LosPollosHermanos

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    Sugar Land has some of the richest people in the around houston area. 500K is chump change.
     
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  9. Mr. Clutch

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    Is the website any good?
     
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  10. sugrlndkid

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    my username would be obsolete?? heck no...r****ded Californian companies...
     
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  11. LCAhmed

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    NEVER HAPPEN! IF Houston ever changes to South Dallas, I AM OUT OF THAT TOWN
     
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  12. Mr. Clutch

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    You're out of Dallas or Houston?
     
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  13. LCAhmed

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    If South Dallas ever came to existence, I would leave South Dallas. I WILL NOT BE AFFILIATED WITH THE CITY OF DALLAS
     
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  14. Mr. Clutch

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    What if Dalls became north Houston?
     
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  15. LCAhmed

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    Interesting. As long as they gave up their snobby ways (from my experience this is how the people of Dallas are) and didnt consider themselves northerners than I dont see a problem. If they took the name North Houston and started boasting how much better they were because they are "North Houston" then I would not be okay with it.
     
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  16. Xerobull

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    Sugardaddy.com?

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  17. pradaxpimp

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    This is obviously a marketing ploy and the media just fell for it.
     
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  18. Smokey

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    Fox News fell for it.
     
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  19. JuanValdez

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    It's not like the journalist doesn't know what's up. But, if the story is good enough to start a thread on a basketball bbs, it's probably good enough to be filler for their publication.

    Now, I'm thinking about what kind of stupid stunt my wife's business can pull to get national news outlets to write about us....
     
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  20. da_juice

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    Probably a lot. A town near mine changed names a few years ago and it cost a lot to change all the town vehicles, signs etc. Some of the highway signs still haven't been changed.
     
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