AmericanScience
24 Aug 2005, 03:04 PM
Sure, sure - it's no Hamilton!, but it'd be good:
from imdb:
Town That Renames Itself "Dish" Will Get Free Satellite Service
Recalling game-show host Ralph Edwards' on-air remark in 1950 that he wished some American town "liked and respected our show so much that it would like to change it's name to 'Truth or Consequences,'" (the town of Hot Springs, New Mexico did so), EchoStar Communications Corp., which operates the Dish network, said Tuesday, that it would give free satellite receivers to every household in any town that permanently renamed itself Dish. Any interested town has until Nov. 1 to apply.
from imdb:
Town That Renames Itself "Dish" Will Get Free Satellite Service
Recalling game-show host Ralph Edwards' on-air remark in 1950 that he wished some American town "liked and respected our show so much that it would like to change it's name to 'Truth or Consequences,'" (the town of Hot Springs, New Mexico did so), EchoStar Communications Corp., which operates the Dish network, said Tuesday, that it would give free satellite receivers to every household in any town that permanently renamed itself Dish. Any interested town has until Nov. 1 to apply.