Re: Coca Cola and the Chinese market(really funny brand names)

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From: Leonard Brown
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1986 18:56

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In article <3187@sdcc3.UUCP> co20wta@sdcc3.UUCP (Bruce Jones) writes:
>
>In Mexico the state petroleum company is called "Pemex" and their
>brand of regular gas is "Nova".  In Spanish "va" is a verb that
>means "it goes"  and no means the same thing as it does in English.
>
Since this stuff is only 80 octane, and heavily leaded, "it does not go"
is rather descriptive of what happens to U.S. cars and motorcycles that use
it more than once or twice.


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Leonard Brown:  brown@aerospace.ARPA
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From: brown@aero.ARPA (Leonard Brown)
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Subject: Re: Coca Cola and the Chinese market(really funny brand names)
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Date: Wed, 12-Mar-86 13:56:07 EST
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