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Hahaha! So many great responses ! Ok here’s …

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hahaha! So many great responses ! Ok here’s a word I would like you to expound upon! “Sue” Like, i am going to Sue You! Hugs always!

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I think Hillary may try to come after your pot, are you worried? hahaha ;P

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Drink the Kool-Aid
When a trademark (brand name) becomes part of the lexicon, the name is transfered to similar products. For example, Kleenex, Xerox, Aspirin, Popsicle, and Yo-yo. The trademark is then considered to have become genericized. Flavor Aid is almost identical to Kool-Aid and Kool-Aid was a genericized trademark. A reporter could easily say , what, is Flavor Aid, see it and say, Oh Kool-Aid! Besides Kool-aid was a cool name from the acid tests, which still go on, the last one was in Las Vegas.

When trademark becomes genericized, the qualities of the trade mark are transfered to the similar product. So you don’t want your trade mark to become generic because it works against your product. Yes, cool you created a cultural meme but you defeated your advertising campaign. i.e. Flavor Aid might as well be Kool-Aid and vice versa.

In advertising a rose by any other name, best not smell as sweet! Hey , i saw this pair Gucci sandals; love to see them on your feet…. ;P

So tell that pugnacious nitpicker, nah, nah, same difference and irrelevant! And I believe it may be both a mix of the Electric Kool-Aid Acid test and the Jones event.

Now someone above posted about the Ford and Benz confusion over the invention of the automobile. Sating that it was Ford that invented the Assembly Line. This is doubtful too. 100 years earlier, Adam Smith in his book, the Wealth of Nations (1776), coins or introduces the term, “Divisions of Labor.” He give an example of a Pin Factory. To illustrate his point, “Smith described the workings of a pin factory. One person making a pin could make perhaps one in a day, maybe a few more. But if the job were divided into ten parts and given to ten workers, each performing a specialized function, a small factory could turn out 48,000 pins a day. This was the assembly line a century and a half before Henry Ford was credited with inventing it.”
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog07/transcript/page02.html

Also, slaughter houses and meat packers had what is called a disassembly line. Pig in meat products out and each part was handled differently and you wanted to utilize everything you could – don’t ask what’s in the hot dogs – mystery meat! Just like your combative, partner/sister? hehehe …but I believe the disassembly line is nothing more than an assembly line in reverse. I think you could apply the same thing to mining of ores, the making of steel, saw mills and flour mills, in fact, the division of labor, goes backto the begining of civilization itself and long before the Model-T.

Adam Smith was an economist and economists don’t necessarily invent ideas as much as they observe and look for the economical and suggest that it replace the inefficient.
Guess the Word VII (7) Answer & Happy Holidays!
Oh and here this is Jabu! My girl that is 8000 miles away and her mom is dying of cancer today!
You say it best when you say nothing at all!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT0QFM78fpo

And here is the first page of the Tao De Ching, the oldest religious manuscript known to man:

“…
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth.
The named is the mother of ten thousand things.
Ever desireless, one can see the mystery.
Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations.
These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gate to all mystery.
…”

I am not religious, I may believe in some power above me, oh many really. How ever you pray , pray for Jabu’s mother. Pray fo me and i pray for you too. May the whole world be at peace and may the fun run too hehehe!

“…
Life is a game

In order to have a game
something has to be more important
than something else.

If what already is,
is more important than what isn’t,
the game is over.

So life is a game in which what isn’t ,
is more important than what is.

Let the good times roll.
…”

Honeymoon is defined as “1 : a period of harmony immediately following marriage 2 : a period of unusual harmony especially following the establishment of a new relationship 3 : a trip or vacation taken by a newly married couple.”

There are many variations on the history of “honeymoon.” It has been thought that it occurs from the practice of the ancient Teutons of drinking honeyed wine (hydromel) for thirty days after marriage. Attila the Hun is said to have died after overindulging in hydromel during his wedding feast. Hydromel, also known as mead or metheglin, is a honey wine that not only symbolized the sweetness of marriage but also had reputed aphrodisiacal properties. This beverage is said to have been drunk at the wedding feast, but also every night for the next month. One version states that the Babylonians had a practice of the father of the bride giving mead to his new son-in-law for the first month of the marriage.

As wonderfully romantic as the above explanations are, there is evidence that the term “honeymoon” is first used in the 16th century (1546) to mean ‘the period of pleasure immediately following a marriage.’ The concept of a honeymoon being tied into a vacation or trip did not occur until the 18th century. Dr. Samuel Johnson stated the honeymoon was ‘The first month after marriage, when there is nothing but tenderness and pleasure,’ comparing it to the moon which begins to wane as soon as it is full. Many dictionaries described the honeymoon as “the period of waning affections.”

Even if it is only a legend, drink of cup of mead with your beloved and watch the moon grow full again.

Sources: Cambridge Dictionary of American English, WWWebster Dictionary, WordWizard, Jesse’s Word of the Day,Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Dave Wilton’s Etymology Page, A Word With You

http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/history_of_words/34115
Guess the Word VII (7) Answer & Happy Holidays!
Dutch
[edit] Noun

marina f.

1. (Flemish) common, ordinary girl (often with a pejorative meaning)

See also: johnny’s en marina’s (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/johnny%27s_en_marina%27s)

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/marina#Dutch

Although a Harbor full of small boats is pretty cute too! ;P