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#18908 - Tue Dec 05 2000 07:35 AM advertising trivia
tjoebigham Offline
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The real name of Mr. Bib, the Michelin Man, is Bibendum, from the Latin Nunc est Bibendum(let us drink)[he was inspired by 1 of the Michelin brothers seeing a stack of tires and remarking that with arms and legs it'd look like a man] Ovaltine was originally named Ovomaltine, because it contains: eggs and malt, but a clerical error gave us today's name. tjoeb};>
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#18909 - Tue Dec 19 2000 04:56 PM Re: advertising trivia
turquoise Offline
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Loc: Sydney
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that happened with oprah winfrey too!
her aunt went to register her birthname as the biblical name 'orpah', but aparently misspelled it and gave us a name worthy of 76 letterman jibes...

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