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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!news.tek.com!tekig7!tekig5!briand
  2. From: briand@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Brian D Diehm)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  4. Subject: Re: pop &c.
  5. Message-ID: <7620@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>
  6. Date: 17 Nov 92 19:25:28 GMT
  7. References: <1992Nov13.202010.4662@news.columbia.edu> <baron.58.721929582@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <BxvBMM.31H@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
  8. Sender: news@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM
  9. Reply-To: briand@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM
  10. Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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  12.  
  13. In article <BxvBMM.31H@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tdlg9831@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Tracey Dianne Layng) writes:
  14. >[stuff deleted]
  15. >
  16. >I read somewhere that Kleenex used to pay writers who remembered to note
  17. >that Kleenex is a trademark. 
  18. >
  19. >Tracey
  20.  
  21. I remember an anecdote in the Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes edited by
  22. Clifton Fadiman. Authenticity of their anecdotes is not guaranteed, but this
  23. one supposedly really happened. I don't have the book in front of me right
  24. now, so this is just the gist. If requested, I will post the anecdote word
  25. for word (despite copyright considerations, I guess).
  26.  
  27. It seems that in the '50s or '60s, a Kimberly-Clark competitor wanted to put
  28. on some TV ads letting people know that Kleenex wasn't the only tissue out
  29. there; that they also put out perfectly good facial tissues. The conversation
  30. on the set between the director and the actress became somewhat tense, as she
  31. repeatedly failed to sneeze just right or something.
  32.  
  33. Finally, the director shouted at her in exasperation, "Look, sweetheart, just
  34. sneeze into the Kleenex and then look at the camera!"
  35.  
  36. --
  37. Brian Diehm
  38. Tektronix, Inc.                (503) 627-3437         briand@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM
  39. P.O. Box 500, M/S 19-286
  40. Beaverton, OR   97077
  41.