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echo: coffee_klatsch
to: Bob Ackley
from: Joe Bruchis
date: 2008-03-21 07:33:34
subject: Re: Hello

BA> Note that 'Kleenex' and 'cellophane' are now both generic terms.
BA> Companies now
BA> jealously guard their brand names and sue if any other company uses one.
BA> Which is
BA> why 'facial tissue' and 'food wrap' are used instead of 'Kleenex' and
BA> 'Saran Wrap' in
BA> competitors' commercials.  I don't think that 'Muzak' ever got into
BA> general usage,
BA> most folks use 'elevator music' instead.
 
How about Scotch tape? One office worker says to another, "May I
borrow your Scotch tape?" or "Do you have any White Out and a
Marks-a-Lot?". (-:
 
Joe 

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