2004-09-23

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2004-09-23 09:37 am
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An exceptionally good article on Islam

I thought that the article here enclosed was so good that I would like my friends and readers to have a look at it. Of course, if you don't feel as I do, sorry for wasting your time.
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2004-09-23 12:43 pm

Big. Business. Morons.

One of Britain's big food manufacturers wanted to market a new coffe-based product. They figured that Italian coffee has a good image and wanted to make use of that. So they invented (they thought) a trademarked new brand name with the requisite Italian sound.

The name is CAPPIO. And if the morons had bothered to open an Italian dictionary, they would have found that the word cappio exists, and that it means (Hazon Garzanti Dictionary) "slip-knot, noose".