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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeder2.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!192.87.166.28.MISMATCH!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!reader02.news.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e2473eb$0$2947$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Boris rejects 20mph limit Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:56:54 +0100 References:     <6itt171d5je6hm5dc2bl81q6stbe3ks301@4ax.com> <1k4g3jl.6wyfjr1898b0jN%NEWS@sarlet.com>  <1k4gjr2.8tm3gl1a64zh5N%NEWS@sarlet.com>  <1k4lw1r.1k5a8o37preu5N%NEWS@sarlet.com> <98j1viFcvkU1@mid.individual.net> Lines: 23 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <98j1viFcvkU1@mid.individual.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 313fff1c.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=]f=W On 18/07/2011 14:54, Roger Merriman wrote: >> marathon plus! > > It's called Snickers Extra now.

I still think of a Marathon bar every time I hear the word "marathon", since I think I encountered the former meaning before the latter, and I find that such "associations" made early in childhood are very hard if not impossible to "undo".

Needless to say, a disgraceful name change: probably the worst of the lot. "Cif" I can handle, even though "Jif" was better. The same with "Olay"/"Ulay" (not that I tend to be a big buyer of such products). Maybe I even prefer "Starburst" to "Opal Fruits". But f**king "Snickers"...I mean really. (I suppose the Health Police would have got "Marathon" renamed anyway by now for implying that it helped you to run same.) Didn't they try to rename Coco Pops as well at one stage?

I wish they'd leave these things alone. I much preferred the old Mars and Twix logos as well (and the old Safeway one that survived for most of the 90s). Why do logos have to look all girly and Comic Sans-like now? And why, for that matter, am I a grumpy old man?