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From: dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Coca Cola and the Chinese market (a true story)
Message-ID: <766@cylixd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 12:01:38 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  4 12:01:38 1986
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In article <910@rlgvax.UUCP> oz@rlgvax.UUCP writes:

>That was considerably better then Cokes original choice which also sounded
>somewhat like "Coca Cola" but instead translated as "Bite the wax tadpole."

I heard some time ago that Pepsi put up a billboard in Japan with a
literal word-for-word translation of "Come Alive with the Pepsi Generation."
Unfortunately, in Japanese context it came across as "Pepsi will raise
your ancestors from the dead."

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