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Does Anyone Have a Kleenex?

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  • LazarusLazarus subscriber Posts: 0
    All flavors of Soda are indeed called "Coke" down South, and many older Southerners refer to their Refrigerator as "The Frigidaire"
  • BarbRBarbR subscriber Posts: 5
    In Michigan, soft drinks are referred to as "pop", not "soda".  I have to be so careful when I travel to just ask for exactly what I want by name, and not ask, "What types of pop do you have?" when I am at a restaurant.  Instead, I ask, "Do you have Diet Coke?"....I was in a very small restaurant in Virginia a long time ago and made the mistake, and I think everyone in the place had a good laugh.  At first, I had no idea what they were laughing at, until I realized that "pop" is a midwestern thing. 
  • LipserviceLipservice subscriber Posts: 0
    How about "Chap Stick"? I manufacture and market my own lip balm. It can be quite trying having other folks call it "Chap Stick". Lip balm or "Lip Service" would be much nicer!
  • PokermanPokerman subscriber Posts: 5
    Aspirin belongs to Bayer... maybe cause "acetylsalicylic acid" just isn`t too catchy or even pronouncable.
  • ChristinaChristina subscriber Posts: 6
    Photoshop it!So I guess it won`t work as well if I use Paint Shop Pro, or the GIMP to do photo editing.
  • profitablegamesprofitablegames subscriber Posts: 0
    Kimberly Clark does a terrific job with a number of well-known brands (Huggies, Kleenex, Depend, Kotex - to name a few). And I think they continue to work at it with the cutting edge marketing tactics they now undertake. However, I would argue that it`s not considered good marketing to have Kleenex a household name unless it means that individuals are not willing to accept a substitute (Puffs, for instance).
    Kimberly Clark had to fight to have Kleenex identified as a brand name rather than a generic in the dictionary, because of the risk that poses. If the name gets thrown around too generically, it loses its true branding / value. A classic example of this is styrofoam.
    I believe they do a good job in spite of the fact that people refer to it as a generic word.
  • BarbRBarbR subscriber Posts: 5
    I haven`t been on here in a while, but I did come up with another that I wanted to share: 
    Make sure to TiVo that show!!!!  
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