Re: Pill bottle label found, reclaim at courtesy desk

In article <g07c44$522$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Jen  <jenhallinan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Don K wrote:
> > "Opus the Penguin" <opusthepenguin+usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> > news:Xns9A9B5258C7DDBopusthepenguinnettax@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 
> >> Sadly, Magic Marker as a brand of pen has been defunct for over 20
> >> years. How did that happen? Everybody in the US called (and calls)
them
> >> "magic markers," regardless of actual brand. You can't buy that kind
of
> >> publicity. Yet still they went under. If I were an entrepreneur, I'd
> >> see what I could do about securing the rights to the name and re-
> >> opening production.
> 
> As a hybrid Aussie /Brit...
> 
> > For many years, xerox could be a verb, a necessary adjective, or a
noun
> > exclusively referring to any sort of paper copy.
> 
> Photocopy

Yeah, I used to work in a copy joint, and we NEVER said "xerox", except
when referring to the big machines in full serve.  Not by management
rule or anything, just that the word didn't apply.

> > For me, "Sharpie" has finally replaced "Magic Marker".
> 
> Felt pen

"permanent marker"

> > "Scotch tape" still rolls off the tongue easier (so to speak) than
> 'transparent tape".
> 
> Sticky tape

Teflon, I can see.  But how are duct / gaffer / electrical / foam /
packing / masking tapes not sticky?  Don't Brits call it
sellotape/cellotape anyhow?

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