SUN 10 DEC 2000 SUPPORT GoobNet SPEED

WEEKLY WHINE

Hanging Chad out to dry

Last week, of course, we had our insanely popular feature about possible names for the International Space Station. Our ideas were so much better than everybody else's, but what would you expect from GoobNet?

Anyway, popular request says that we should do the same for some nations of the world that have bad names. [If you are, for example, George W Bush and you're not familiar with the nations of the world, the Animaniacs have a song that can get you up to speed.] Clearly the central African nation of Chad should become Hanging Chad, in a permanent mockery of the American electoral process. But what other names should get the boot?

Out with the old...	...In with the new
Trinidad and Tobago	Felix and Tobago
The Sudan	A Sudan
Central African Republic	CAR
The Guinea	The Original Guinea
Angola	Angle
Iceland	Volcanoland
Malta	Malted Shake
San Marino	The Invisible Nation
Kyrgyzstan	Llanstondne
Maldives	Buendives
Belgium	Swut
Georgia	FSR Georgia
Canada	(US + UK)/2
Nauru	Stan
Hungary	Nebraska
United States of America	Canada