re: Lexicographic Capitalization page 9

"New Coke," when it was around, tasted more like Pepsi than what's now called "Classic Coke" did, but it still did not taste exactly like Pepsi.

I seem to remember it being called "Coke Classic", for a while (incl.
1985) at least.

I repeat: Erk, this can't be!

Forgive me for altering the subject line. I had this nagging feeling that it needed altering.

If you think all colas taste alike, I have to think that there is something wrong with your palate.

I'll drink (something else) to that! When I was a student I used to drink lots of Coca Cola (with tobacco snuff added in try it!). Pepsi was something else. Very much sweeter. Sickeningly so to my taste. The other day we had teetotallers for dinner (no, we didn't eat them... you know what I mean) and my wife had bought some Coca Cola and some Diet Cola (Coles supermarket brand). They didn't touch the stuff. So (curiosity will kill me) I tasted both. As similar as night and day. And since the PC scumbags here in Australia have succeeded in banning tobacco snuff, I couldn't make it drinkable.
Anyway, Coles Diet Cola tasted like Coca Cola like... let me think... Marsanne tastes like Shiraz. No... better make that: like Marsanne tastes like sparkling Burgundy. Or kangaroo like pork.

Robert Bannister had it:

(5) Many decades later, Bayer bought back the rights to their own name in the US and Canada (and the Aspirin trademark with the latter).

So does this mean that aspirin is still not a trademark in Britain and other countries?

"still"? Has "aspirin" ever been a trademark in the UK? Not in my lifetime anyway.

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Robert Bannister had it:

So does this mean that aspirin is still not a trademark in Britain and other countries?

"still"? Has "aspirin" ever been a trademark in the UK? Not in my lifetime anyway.

OED1 Suppl. 1933 has it from 1899 with a capital; and though it makes clear by implication that it isn't the true chemical name, it doesn't specify that it is or was a TM. By contrast, the main dictionary does explain that "Kodak" is a TM.
The earliest quotation it has for "Kodak" is 1890, as a noun for the camera itself, from the Kodak Manual; and there's a good figurative small-letter use from 1899: "Printed on the endless roll of sensitised material with which our brain kodaks are fitted."

(See also new thread "Brain analogy".)

Mike.

I've just mentioned the 1899 fig. use of "kodak" in "Printed on the endless roll of sensitised material with which our brain kodaks are fitted."
Could that 1899 quotation be the earliest example of contemporary technology being called on to supply an analogy for the workings of the brain?

Mike.

I've just mentioned the 1899 fig. use of "kodak" in "Printed on the endless roll of sensitised material with which ... be the earliest example of contemporary technology being called on to supply an analogy for the workings of the brain?

You've got a mind like a steel trap, there.

Best Donna Richoux

And if you can't tell Coke from Pepsi, we pity you.

Who would want to know. They're both undrinkable.

Billions around the world disagree.

Peter T. Daniels (Email Removed)

I've just mentioned the 1899 fig. use of "kodak" in "Printed on the endless roll of sensitised material with which ... be the earliest example of contemporary technology being called on to supply an analogy for the workings of the brain?

Prolly not telephone switchboards had been around for a couple of decades. I have a Book of Knowledge from the 1910s (IIRC) with a wonderfully elaborate drawing of the human body as a collection of mechanical devices, and up in the attic is a row of operators.
Peter T. Daniels (Email Removed)

If you think all colas taste alike, I have to think that there is something wrong with your palate.

I'll drink (something else) to that! When I was a student I used to drink lots of Coca Cola (with ... day. And since the PC scumbags here in Australia have succeeded in banning tobacco snuff, I couldn't make it drinkable.

Did you chill it, or do Ozzies have the British attitude toward ice?

Anyway, Coles Diet Cola tasted like Coca Cola like... let me think... Marsanne tastes like Shiraz. No... better make that: like Marsanne tastes like sparkling Burgundy. Or kangaroo like pork.

Shiraz is popular here. But I don't know what Marsanne, Shiraz, and kangaroo taste like to you, so it's not possible to interpret your remarks.

Peter T. Daniels (Email Removed)