[Leica] Google and Lots of Other Nouns Have Become Verbs

[pklein at 2alpha.net (Peter Klein)]

It's kind of pathetic, though, how the very thing that would make a product 
a household word on the lips of all far and wide, advertising you couldn't 
buy, is also what the Legal Department is trying to avoid at all costs.

F'rinstance, in my mind, "Kleenex" is a synonym for "tissues."  As a 
result, I always buy Kleenex. I do this even though I have known for 30 
years that Scotties are better, because, when left in my pants pockets, 
Scotties do not dissolve into shreds and lumps and lint that get all over 
my entire load of wash.  Kleenex does.  But since Kleenex means tissues, I 
still buy Kleenex.  I must be nuts.  The marketing bastards got me.

--Peter

At 06:27 PM 9/23/04 -0700, you wrote:
Kit wrote:

>Yea, imagine what that slippage into public domain-dom would do for the
>stock price! :(