Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!aplcen!jhunix!ins_armr From: ins_armr@jhunix.UUCP (Rudy M Rumohr) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Coca Cola and the Chinese market (a true story) Message-ID: <2208@jhunix.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 18:20:44 EST Article-I.D.: jhunix.2208 Posted: Thu Mar 13 18:20:44 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Mar-86 10:40:13 EST References: <766@cylixd.UUCP> <4294@ut-sally.UUCP> <168@bucsb.UUCP> Reply-To: ins_armr@jhunix.ARPA (Rudy M Rumohr) Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Computing Ctr. Lines: 22 There is a story about the rock group the J. Geils Band a few years back. It seems that they wanted to change their image among the German-speaking peoples. So, for one album, they shortened their name to 'Geils'. After receiving many guffaws at record stores around Germany, somebody at the record company found out that in German, 'geil' means 'horny'... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rudy Rumohr Jr. 3339 N. Charles St Apartment 1-AL UUCP: ihnp4!whuxcc!jhunix!ins_armr -or- Baltimore, MD 21218 seismo!umcp-cs!jhunix!ins_armr -or- allegra!hopkins!jhunix!ins_armr ARPANET: ins_armr%jhunix.BITNET@wiscvm.ARPA Necessity dictates the insertion of an appropriate disclamatory proclamation into this section of this missive, both for assuredness of legality, and to satisfy my lust for bombast. "I've seen sex, and I think it's OK." -- Talking Heads