Man auctioning middle name on eBay
Monday, April 4, 2005 Posted: 8:41 AM EDT (1241 GMT)
UINTAH HIGHLANDS, Utah (AP) -- Matthew Jean Rouse doesn't like his middle name and he's letting you pick a new one.
The
31-year-old father of two is selling the naming right on eBay. The "Buy
It Now" price is $8,000. As of early Monday, there had been a total of
30 bids, with the high bid $2,175.
The winning bidder gets to choose a new middle name for Rouse, a software engineer.
Rouse also agrees to use his middle name "whenever plausible and not hide it."
"If
he wants to walk around with 'Fool' as his middle name, that's his
problem," said Rouse's wife, Corinna Rouse. "If someone changes his
name to 'Poophead,' he may decide it's a little more important than he
thought."
Rouse's middle name was taken from his late grandfather, Jean Stelter, with whom he didn't get along.
His
older brother, Bill Rouse, 46, of Mesa, Arizona, bid $1,500 for the
name. "Basically, he's trying to dump our grandfather's name, and I'm
trying to buy it and make it stay as it is," Bill Rouse said.
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