Re: Eisner doesn't know shiite from Shinola!

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kip Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually jingles rather than limericks. Limericks have an AAbbA rhyme
> scheme, with the "b" lines being a little shorter as well, and all seem
> to concern young men from Nantucket.

Mwah! GOODNIGHT EVERYBODY!!!

> >>It hasn't been the same for me since Mars insisted on renaming the
> >>Marathon bar "Snickers" so that Americans wouldn't be confused by it
> >>when they came over here. Or that's the excuse they gave, anyway. 
> > 
> > I didn't even know "Snickers" had another name.  ^_^
> > 
> > I learn something new everyday!

> [In England, that is.]

Chances are that it was yet another case of a name change used to try to
prop up or boost a product. This has happened so much recently. The
silliest one was the change of a cleaning product from "Jif" to "Cif"
because, so the company said, the word "Jif" is actually a swear word in
certain countries. So why change it in the UK? 

I mean, we never had the problem with any other stuff. For example, they
changed the name of the Commodore VIC20 in Germany to the VC20 because VIC
in German is rude, but that didn't affect us! It seems that the global
economy is slowly erasing cultural differences...

> >>A sailor out in the Sargasso, Mistakenly partook of Brasso. When he
> >>next took a dump, The act caused him to jump, For his caca was
> >>polished like glass-o! 
> > 
> > (OK, OK, so it sucks, but it *was* spur of the moment!) 

> And it is a good illustration of a limerick, even though it doesn't
> concern Nantucket.

It could have been worse,
I could have done a haiku
That would be silly.

> (Concerning the subject line: Shinola is a shoe polish, and Shiite is a
> member of a religious group. No similarity. That Eisner must be a big
> silly.)

The "shiite" thing is a joke I've heard before on a show called "Drop The
Dead Donkey", where a newsreader made the same mistake by referring to
them as "shite muslims"...

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