Macedonia 2: Electric Boogaloo

WHAT'S IN A NAME??

So Greece and Macedonia (or "the country otherwise known as FYROM") can't decide on a mutually agreeable name. We recently spent sometime pondering this topic after a suggestion from a non-blogging acquiantance and came up with some ideas:

THE SUGGESTION: I say solve this by holding a bidding war to name the country. Macedonia could use the money and having the country name Fedexia or Microsoftia would be kind of cool!

J: I can't believe I hadn't thought of this free market solution to the Greek-Macedonia conflict before...

G: While Macedonia could definitely use the money, I don't know how its citizens would feel being called Fedexians. Or maybe Fedexovans? I wonder which one it would be.

S: $5 for naming it after me: ____stan.

W: Macedonia should advertise on eBay for naming rights! Hell, if there are idiots out there earning money for selling off their forehead or the name of their first born for advertising revenue, then I'm SURE a country--as podunk as it is (NOTE: no offense intended to our Macedonian/FYROMian brothers and sisters, we love ya! But you've got to admit it!)--could secure their financial future. Hey, this might be the answer: I'm thinking if Europe really wants to have a military force that can compete with the US and they're lacking the money for equipment, they can just sell ad space on uniforms and equipment on eBay. We could also use this to solve the national debt.

G: AWESOME idea! I love it! Can't you just picture the Nike swoosh on an army helmet. This is something the Balkans should definitely look into, it would help them generate revenue (to be used for other purposes besides the military of course). Hmm, I wonder if that is NATO compliant? My other latest idea is for the Bulgarians to create tourist t-shirts that say, "I went to Bulgaria and didn't get gunned down by the mafia, all I got was this lousy t-shirt". If the Bulgarian government isn't going to crack down further on the mafia there, maybe someone needs to start poking more fun at them to get them to do it.

W: Do you remember the EU postcards that depict the different cultural sterotypes of the member states? I say a whole line of t-shirts in this vain would be excellent. And since Bulgaria one day hopes to be a member, they should jump on the bandwagon and get their own t-shirt going. I wonder if they've updated the EU postcard to reflect the new member states? Another thought on the whole Greece/Macedonia/FYROM issue, I think both countries could be convinced that eBay would be a beneficial solution. If Macedonia agrees to a name that has nothing to do with Macedonia--like "Fill-in-your-name-here + don/stan" (Ex. Sallystan, Davidstan--then they get the profits of the ad revenue. But, if the party who wants "Macedonia" and pays the most for it on eBay wins in the bidding, then Greece gets the profits from any such ad revenue--they could sure as hell use it to offset the Olympics expense. Just a thought.

S: Everybody wins with the name Macedonia 2: Electric Boogaloo

Enough said!