Uranus phaser

[Bill Layer]

At 08:53 AM 8/3/98 -0700, you wrote:
>The name sounds good but (as my sick mind always does) it reminds me of
>"Brown-25, that all purpose substance from Uranus".  Anybody who remembers
>the cult classic movie "Groove Tube" spoof about television will know what
>I'm talking about.  It had a really descriptive scene that always make me
>chuckle when I hear the word Uranus.

Yeah, the potenital humor content of anything called Uranus cannot be
overstated. Inasmuch as I like the way it sounds, this probably wouldn't be
the best choice for the name... Hard to take seriously, at the best. 

Which reminds me of a serious marketing flub by CBM back in the 80's. Seems
they wanted to sell the VIC-20 in Germany, but there was a conflict with
another manufacturer who used the VIC name. So in their infinite wisdom,
the marketing guys at Commodore renamed it the "Vixen-20". Remember this
Juergen?

'Vixen' is word meaning a prostitute in German.

Also, in Mandarin Chinese "Coca-Cola" (co-ca-co-la) means "Bite the wax
tadpole" and Coke's campaign "Coke adds life" got translated into Mandarin
meaning "Coke brings back your ancient ancestors from the dead".

Thats all.
Bill Layer
Sales Technician
<b.layer at vikingelectronics.com>

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