Mega Super Ultra Goods

[Ladyazh]

This must be fun one

Shopping lately i found that I am wasting my time trying to make my choice of lots of product based on

Extra
Ultra
XXL
Mega
Super
Balder then ever


and I am never sure if Mega superiour to Ultra or vice versa?

 

[johnherman]

for stackdump, I don't think it is Packard:

http://www.packardclub.org/

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The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was - Steven Wright

 

[Thadeus]

sleipnir214 (Programmer) 22 Feb 07 12:54

I am waiting for the day that I hear a manufacturer say, "Our new product is so much better than the old, we are discontinuing the old product."

That would the New Coke mistake... probably the most prominent example of marketing gone bad in the late 20th century.

~Thadeus

 

[sleipnir214]

Thadeus:
True.

Although I think the mistake the Coca-Cola corporation made was not one of marketing but one of research. In order to be able to get away with discontinuing the old product in favor of the new product, the new product must actually be gernerally agreed to be better than the old. All Coca-Cola had going for "New Coke" was one of the worst cases of corporate collective Cranial-Colorectal Insertion Disorder I have ever heard of.

As a dyed-in-the-wool Coke fan, I was all excited about the new drink. But as is described in the Wikipedia article you linked, I liked the taste only in sip-sized quantities. When I took home a six-pack and tried to drink one can after getting sweaty mowing the grass, I realized that the new stuff was, like Pepsi, cloyingly sweet to my palate.

All I could say during that time was, "Thank God for Dr. Pepper."



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[Ladyazh]

Have you seen a new Coke commercial?

When you oen it...12, 367 000 000 bubbles are born.
Happy Birthday bubbles!

I though it was the awesomest cr?p I had seen!
I do not drink coke but I wanted to...

And back to original question I know, I know...

 

[pinkgecko]

Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas.

I like the leg bone thing better. What language is it? I tried a latin translator, and I got:

To you give thanks agimus and nothing fumas.

Top notch translating site there .

[blue]Never listen to your customers. They were dumb enough to buy your product, so they have no credibility. - Dogbert[/blue]

 

[pinkgecko]

lol I have a new hobby. I translated the sentence:

This is a very good translating service.

from English to Latin. Then I translated it back. Here's what I got:

This is a intensely good to repeat service.

[blue]Never listen to your customers. They were dumb enough to buy your product, so they have no credibility. - Dogbert[/blue]

 

[Golom]

I am waiting for the day that I hear a manufacturer say, "Our new product is so much better than the old, we are discontinuing the old product."

Well ... they don't actually use those words but Microsoft does it all the time. Just try buying a copy of the last release of anything from them as soon as the next release hits the stores.

 

[sleipnir214]

Actually, Mi[¢]ro$oft's spin is usually, "Ve haf a new produkt. Und to insure you buy it, ve vill discontinue the old produkt. Haf a nice day."



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[pinkgecko]

My company no longer distributes frontpage since Microsoft doesn't support it any more, but doesn't distribute any other web authoring software. So we have lots of people building all sorts of active server pages using notepad. It's great. I'm one of the lucky view that still has my copy of Frontpage... (returning to the topic) It's enormously, stupendously, gigantically inefficient.

[blue]Never listen to your customers. They were dumb enough to buy your product, so they have no credibility. - Dogbert[/blue]

 

[IknowMe]

Look at that setup.

Actually, Mi¢ro$oft's spin is usually, "Ve haf a new produkt. Und to insure you buy it, ve vill discontinue the old produkt. Haf a nice day."

Should be followed by "Ve Vant to $uck Your Blud"

Wow, I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
I think I've forgotten this before.

 

[Gooser]

It's like Alice in Wonderland (I forget which character).

A word means whatever I want it to mean.

Isn't that a Clinton Quote?

--Gooser

 

[SantaMufasa]

Isn't that a Clinton Quote?

Which Clinton? Ooops...Never mind...it doesn't matter...it applies either way.

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]

 

[Thadeus]

dang funny, that one about the Clintons...

that kind of humor never gets old...

Did you hear the one where Nixon tells the country and the world that he's not a crook and then resigns when he realizes he's actually accountable? I laughed my back-end off over that one....

Or did you mean George Clinton?

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[MeGustaXL]

Gooser,

It's like Alice in Wonderland (I forget which character).

A word means whatever I want it to mean.

Through the Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty.

HTH

Chris

When his pin is pulled, Mr Grenade is not our friend - USMC Infantry Manual