Re: A renaming analogy - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: A renaming analogy
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Msg-id 200709031531.l83FVPl01330@momjian.us
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In response to Re: A renaming analogy  (Jim Nasby <decibel@decibel.org>)
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Jim Nasby wrote:
> On Sep 2, 2007, at 7:23 PM, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> >> The Company Formerly Known as Federal Express changed their name.  I
> >> can still recall their old slogan: "Federal Express: When it
> >> absolutely, positively has to be there overnight."  For reasons I
> >> don't know (but could probably learn if I spent some time doing the
> >> research), they concluded that they should re-brand as FedEx.  They
> >> had something going for them in that new name: that's what everyone
> >> "in the know" _already_ called them.
> >
> > http://www.vizual.com/resources/nl/Nov03/article1.asp
>
> Relevant quotes...
>
>   Under a cloak of secrecy on June 22, 1994, a mysterious aircraft

I think we lost the "cloak of secrecy" option.  ;-)

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