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#99981 - 04/16/03 07:27 AM Brand name solutions
AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York	Anu's wife, Stuti, runs a company that handles precisely this type of challenge. [is this a commercial no-no, Jackie? If so, please delete for me]. http://www.namix.com/tt.html
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#99982 - 04/16/03 09:40 AM Texaco (or perhaps Exxon)
TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Registered: 07/17/00 Posts: 3467 Loc: Marion NC	I thnk it was Esso who proved that a big oil company didn't have to be Humble. _________________________ TEd
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#99983 - 04/16/03 10:02 AM Re: Brand name troubles
Rubrick addict Registered: 05/18/00 Posts: 679 Loc: Somewhere outside New York	Any other examples? Yes, In Ostraylya there used to be a brand of sticky tape called Durex. It must have been a bugger to get off. fnar, fnar. I think it's changed its name now.
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#99984 - 04/16/03 11:35 AM Re: Brand name troubles
RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/23/00 Posts: 2204	useful for sticking up the sign that says, "Buy me and stop one!"
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#99985 - 04/16/03 12:38 PM Re: Brand name troubles
RubyRed member Registered: 03/02/03 Posts: 104	>The Nova story is also pre-internet and has been fairly well demolished.< Yes, I am quite familiar with the bogus Nova story....precisely why I added my note regarding the origin of the Enco story. It was some 30 years ago, and as I mentioned, there was no Internet to perpetuate a story like that. Besides, I just feel in my heart of guts that Paul Harvey would not have broadcast a bogus story. But, then I was but a mere child at the time and could have misunderstood the whole thing.....
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#99986 - 04/16/03 01:06 PM Re: Enco
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13653	I did look up enko in a Japanese-English dictionary this morning. Didn't have time to make a detailed research attempt. What I *did find didn't look all that problematic. Don't remember what it was. The internet didn't create urban legends; it just makes them easier to propagate. They used to get passed around on mimeographed sheets. POSH from Port Out Starboard Home predates the internet by many a year. I think I heard the Nova story around thirty years ago, too, for that matter.
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#99987 - 04/16/03 02:25 PM Re: mis-translation
Zed Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/27/02 Posts: 2154 Loc: British Columbia, Canada	The other one I know that can't be substantiated is the salted crackers which didn't sell well in France when marked as "Biscuits Sale" which without the correct accent ( that I don't know how to put on the above e) means dirty crackers.
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#99988 - 04/16/03 02:39 PM Re: Dirty crackers
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13653	They sell Dirty Potato Chips® in the USA. http://www.taquitos.net/snacks.php?snack_code=9
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#99989 - 04/16/03 02:45 PM Re: Dirty crackers
Zed Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/27/02 Posts: 2154 Loc: British Columbia, Canada	Mud flavoured chips, hmmm.They have to be as good as the ketchup flavored ones in England. A Dutch friend travelling in the southern US asked for chips and was given a little bag of , to her, crisps. She managed to confuse everyone by responding. "No, no, I want chips. You know, the things you eat with mayonaise."
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#99990 - 04/16/03 02:55 PM Re: Chips aka French Fries
wow Carpal Tunnel Registered: 11/25/00 Posts: 3439 Loc: New England, USA	Chips (French Fries) with MAYONNAISE ? GAAaaaaaarrrrrrrkkkkkkkkkkk © !
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