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Marine Takes Bids on New Name | Dated: 10/09/2006 11:24:44 AM |
| | Hoping to raise money for his family and an orphanage, a 29-year-old Marine is running an online auction in which the winning bidder will get to give him a new name — and he promises to make it legally binding. "I've always thought about different cool inventions and neat ideas like this," said Sgt. Cody Baker, an Alabama native who was most recently stationed in Japan but is transferring to Camp Lejeune this month. "It's just the way my mind works. Most of them are off the wall like this. They just sound ridiculous." The bidding at Baker's Web site, <http://www.choosemyname.com>, began July 20, with a $5 offer to name him Mr. Clean. Later bids supporting such names as George Bailey of Bedford Falls and Mr. Right gave way to a $26,333.31 offer from an online coffee vendor that wants the name tape on Baker's uniform to display its slogan, "Finest Freshest Fastest." "It will be my name, legally on paper," he said. "I guess everything that comes with the name Cody Baker will transform into whatever my name becomes." Baker said the money will help support his wife and infant son while he goes to college after leaving the Marine Corps in a year and a half. Some of the proceeds will also go to Im Jai House, an orphanage in Thailand that Baker has supported during his six-year career in uniform. "Whatever his name is, we'll put him to work doing what the Marine Corps does best: accomplishing missions," said Lt. Philip Klay, a spokesman for Baker's future unit at Camp Lejeune. |
- "Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure. "
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| U.S. Marine Ordered to End Auction Offering to Change Name for Cash Tuesday , December 12, 2006 RALEIGH, North Carolina — A North Carolina-based Marine was ordered Tuesday to stop an online auction in which he promised to legally change his name to whatever the highest bidder wanted it to be. Sgt. Cody Baker, 29, could have become "Mr. Clean" or even "Finest Freshest Fastest," but he was told the auction violated military rules against commercial endorsements, said Camp Lejeune spokesman Lt. Col. Curtis Hill. "Completion of this auction would be a commercial advertising slogan on Baker's uniform, which would create the appearance of the Department of Defense endorsing that entity," Hill said. The highest bid had reached $30,000.01, offered by the Web site www.FreebieStore.com. Baker had said he wanted to raise money for college, support his wife and infant son, and help an orphanage in Thailand for children affected by AIDS. The auction, on Baker's personal Web site, started July 20 with a $5 bid to name him "Mr. Clean." Other bids wanted Baker to change his name to "George Bailey of Bedford Falls" and "Mr. Right." An online coffee company bid $26,333.31 to have Baker's military name tape carry its slogan: "Finest Freshest Fastest." Baker has since informed bidders in a message on his Web site that the auction violated federal regulations. "Therefore, the auction of my naming rights ends at this moment," Baker wrote. "Thank you all for your support and encouragement along the way. It was a fun ride." Baker had been stationed with the 1st Marine Air Wing in Okinawa, Japan, but was recently transferred to the 2nd Marine Logistics Group at Camp Lejeune, a coastal Marine base in North Carolina.
- "Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure. "
George W. Bush
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JR's Chick
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| Interesting...too bad it violated laws. Seems like, from a legal standpoint, they jumped the gun. What if some rich knucklehead won the auction and told him to change his name to just something goofy, like Chuck L. Head, and not related to a specific product? I ALMOST changed my middle name to 'Bodacious' when I was doing the last name switch after me and JR got married. I was laughing my ass off at the potential in the Social Security office! 
Blacksmith Six
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Ei Temporis Vita Semper Resumo Sese
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LMAO! That would have been funny! Must of been a parrot-head moment...
"The degenerative and loony should never be denigrated but, rather, thanked. In their absence, the rest of you would be obliged to fill congressional seats... positions naturally unsavory to the sane and honorable." Thorax
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