From the `fortune`-powered, motd on my server this morning:<\/p>\n
Here is the fact of the week, maybe even the fact of the month. According to probably reliable sources, the Coca-Cola people are experiencing severe marketing anxiety in China.<\/p>\n
The words “Coca-Cola” translate into Chinese as either (depending on the inflection) “wax-fattened mare” or “bite the wax tadpole”.<\/p>\n
Bite the wax tadpole.<\/p>\n
There is a sort of rough justice, is there not?<\/p>\n
The trouble with this fact, as lovely as it is, is that it’s hard to get a whole column out of it. I’d like to teach the world to bite a wax tadpole.\u00a0Coke – it’s the real wax-fattened mare. Not bad, but broad satiric vistas do not open up.<\/p>\n
— John Carrol, The San Francisco Chronicle
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