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Re: Car Names

To: "Mike Lishego" <mikesl@tartan.sapc.edu>,
Subject: Re: Car Names
From: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 97 13:00:45 -0500
>Phil Vanner wrote:
>> 
>> I think the first "generically-inoffensive" name was  KODAK which
>> supposedly doesn't mean anything in any language.
>
>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 offensive...Oh well.
>
>-- 
>Michael S. Lishego
>St. Andrews Presbyterian College
>Elementary Education Major,
>English Minor, Class of 1999
>R.A. of Winston-Salem Hall
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 room to crawl 
around in. ;-)

Larry Macy
78 Midget

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