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Date:         Sat, 16 Jun 2001 14:36:25 -0500
Reply-To:     Joachim Beek <beekj@GHG.NET>
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From:         Joachim Beek <beekj@GHG.NET>
Subject:      Re: Legendary name.
Comments: To: Charles McGehee <chasm@ELLTEL.NET>
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Yes, and the name "Vicks Vaporub" was a source of great amusement when I was a youngster over there... Joachim

At 07:12 06/16/2001 -0700, Charles McGehee wrote: >In a global economy, language differences are important. Remember the old >VIC-20 computer of the early 80's? It was marketed in Germany as the >VC-20. Why? "V" in German is pronounced as "F," and FIC-20 sounded like >something else not said in polite society. You figure it out.

Joachim and Belinda and Hobi and Griffin in Houston, TX ...and Lucky, the rescued kitten who runs the house, too! beekj@ghg.net

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace. Milan Kundera


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