- 1. Car Names (score: 1)
- Author: "EPMD- Van syckel, John" <vansyck@hq.1perscom.heidelberg.army.mil>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 13:07:55 +0100
- O.K. Folks, this is going to sketchy, because it was something I heard on a radio talk show about a year ago. As much as I can remember, there are actually consulting firms that charge (IMHO) outrage
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01198.html (7,337 bytes)
- 2. Re: Car Names (score: 1)
- Author: mgbob@juno.com (ROBERT G. HOWARD)
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 10:33:08 EST
- I read an article about companies that do that work. A decade ago, one of the entertaining things that one could do with PCs was to run a random-number generator program. There was a similar one that
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01212.html (7,882 bytes)
- 3. RE: Car Names (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Vanner <Phil@8.medpower.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 97 10:04:00 PST
- I think the first "generically-inoffensive" name was KODAK which supposedly doesn't mean anything in any language. Phil Vanner O.K. Folks, this is going to sketchy, because it was something I heard o
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01218.html (7,534 bytes)
- 4. Re: Car Names (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Lishego <mikesl@tartan.sapc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 11:37:34 -0800
- I often wonder if anybody finds the MG Midget offensive (not the car, the name!) I'm not sure if "midget" is no longer PC, but I imagine that there are a few people out there who would find it offens
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01219.html (6,993 bytes)
- 5. Re: Car Names (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 97 13:00:45 -0500
- As I have stated before, my SO is 4'10" in some cases this "could qualify" as a midget. She takes it proudly and states that she fits in the car like I do an MG Support Vehicle (minivan) - lots of r
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01224.html (7,451 bytes)
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