[ih] Early Internet history and other stuff

[mfidelman at meetinghouse.net (Miles Fidelman)]

And there's the classic story of the ad campaign for Drek soap - because 
there wasn't a single Jew on Madison Ave. to tell folks that it meant 
"Sh*t" in Yiddish.

Miles


On 7/8/18 10:33 AM, John Levine wrote:
> In article <CAHxHggc0BB6N28HvmF1UHkSfB9r4_+U5g87B915HxhOj3NcCnA at mail.gmail.com> you write:
>> Jorge, that's hilarious!
>>
>> reminds me of my surprise to find there was a popular
>> brand of bread, BIMBO, in Spain...
> Bimbo is the largest commercial baker in the US, but outside of Latino
> markets they use other brand names like Thomas, Arnold, Entenmanns,
> and Sara Lee.
>
> Speaking of Spain, UNIX makes fire extinguishers:
>
> http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/drupal6/sites/default/files/museum/89_0.jpg
>
> R's,
> John
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