origo.hu — As Thomas Koselak reports Stephen Colbert has won the first round of the Hungarian bridge naming contest as per major hungarian news sources. (http://origo.hu/nagyvilag/20060822amerikai.html & http://index.hu/gazdasag/magyar/colb060822/) Colbert is 1st by 8,4 million votes; 2nd place has 2+ mill. and 3rd- 1,8 mill, votes. 2nd round will come soon!
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g8rr3ttAug 23, 2006
Stephen Colbert...making wikialities come true
d1carter_Aug 23, 2006
So this is news?
mojiraAug 24, 2006
Finland might let you vote on naming a bridge after Conan O'Brien. :oNot sure what you mean by Egypt and Russia tho. OH, duh, the elections... yea.. Mubarak is a bastard.
xjudahxAug 24, 2006
Now on the page, there is a vote for what to do if Colbert wins. The translation doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but I believe an option is to have him jump off it. There are also references to stateside guffaws at us...I don't think they are liking this too much.
darkphoen1xAug 24, 2006
"Who cares one stateside humourist fooleries"Now that is an awesome translation :)
mandarinAug 24, 2006
No one nominated Samuel Jackson?
punkrockscksAug 25, 2006
I love that man
omaryakAug 26, 2006
If they do end up naming this bridge after Mr. Colbert, I'm going to have to visit Hungary.
aaaaaAug 27, 2006
Not like I want to ruin the fun or something, but this voting is just a public brainstorming session. The name will be decided by some committee of politicians, cartographers and stuff. (The voting should clear up the list of names for them, and of course they have their own ideas also.)
radhazgSep 7, 2006
Stephen Colbert híd