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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Complete Planetary Destruction Is Not as Easy as It Seems
Date: 14 Oct 2024 19:35:32 -0000
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Don_from_AZ  <djatechNOSPAM@comcast.net.invalid> wrote:
>ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) writes:
>
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>> Or Chevrolet.
>
>I read somewhere a (possibly apocryphal) story that the Chevy "Nova" was
>unpopular in Mexico because "no va" means "it won't go" in Spanish.

You would think it would, but it actually sold in spite of the name.  On 
the other hand, the Yugo failed to sell in the US because it frequently 
did not actually go.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."