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Old 06-06-2003, 02:23 PM
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LOL Nick you crack me up! Are you dizzy yet from going around in circles?

It's scary, but I followed your course of thoughts there, and I think you managed a couple points there, or at least it was somewhat interesting.

One of my co-workers (well for another 26 days ) took a marketing class recently and showed us the chapter they did on this phenomenon - where one particular product so dominates the marketplace that its brand new is used as a common noun.

Kleenex is a good one. I used to sell tools and there are a ton of those; Skil Saw, Jig Saw, Vise Grip, to name a few (I actually forget the real generic name for a couple of those!).

To make it relevant to this site - it would be like the SVX becoming so well known that most people just started referring to any similar car as an SVX. (Okay, I don't think that has ever happened with ANY make or model of car, but it was a fun example)
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