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Thread #116859   Message #2513018
Posted By: dick greenhaus
11-Dec-08 - 05:56 PM
Thread Name: Mondegreens' cousins: Soramimis
Subject: RE: Mondegreens' cousins: Soramimis
WEll, back when the UN was started (it was the UNO then), some Arab delegates were upset by gas station signs for SUNOCO and AMOCO, both of which are phonetically equivalent to unconventional sexual practices. And the Nobel company had a monumental commercial flow when they trued to export a chimney-cleaning product--one you just tossed into a coal or wood-burning stove. The labled it with their company trademarked name:


















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