[Shotimes] OT - Win a ricer!

[Ron Porter]

Yeah, I suspect that something gets lost in the translation to English!!!  

Much like the Chinese-to-English translations!! The latest was the personal
battery-powered fan that I got in a golf tournament: "Batteries fixing: if
power turns weak, please change new batteries"

Ron Porter 

-----Original Message-----
From: kerbyh@netzero.net [mailto:kerbyh@netzero.net] 
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 3:47 PM
To: ronporter@prodigy.net
Cc: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] OT - Win a ricer!



Nokian Tyres was spun off from Nokia(cell phones, toilet paper, etc) in
1995.

That is the strangest site I've seen lately...

Kerby

--- "Ron Porter" <ronporter@prodigy.net> wrote:

As an addendum to this....the company is really Nokian, and the tire is the
Hakkapeliitta. Check out their website, it's "different":

http://www.nokiantyres.com/

On Google, they show both Nokia and Nokian as the mfr, as well as two
spellings of the tire (one or two "T"s).

Hope you were all paying attention.....this is your lesson in useless
information today!!!!

Although, I understand that these are great winter tires.....and the Finnish
should know how to make winter tires!!

Ron Porter 


-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Ron Porter
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 2:47 PM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] OT - Win a ricer!


Guess I don't get the joke........as in why Hankook is any stranger of a
name than many others out there.

BTW, Discount Tires carries Hankook. The stranger name, IMHO, is the Finnish
winter tire made by Nokia, the Hakkapeliita. Reputed to be the best winter
tire made.

Ron Porter 

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Koll
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 2:40 PM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] OT - Win a ricer!


Ya, I saw them as sponsers of something-or-another on TV a while ago.
"Hankook".

Now, I'm sure Mr. Hankook is an honerable patriarch, but SOMEONE should have
had the stones to say in one of the first mgmt meatings at Hankook USA, Inc.
"Ahem!  We're gonna get ridiculed for generations here with a name like
that.  Do you KNOW what a kook is here?"

  Koll
  Wish one of my competitors had a name like "Hankook"!

----- Original Message -----
From: "dean james" <djshov8@hotmail.com>
To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] OT - Win a ricer!


> I've always been a fan of the tires from the major manufacturers.  I have
> felt the same way about Nitto, Sumito, and maybe a few others as you feel
> about Hankook.  Maybe I'm just behind the times.  My wife thought I was
> crazy when I told her I was buying Yokohama tires for my 97 SHO, since she
> had never heard of them.
>
> >A free car is a free car, but I wouldn't drive anything that says
> >"Hankook" on it anywhere!  : )
>
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