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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!dsinc!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 23:31:13 -0600 (CST)
- From: net@gagme.chi.il.us
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: "The Net <tm>"?
- Message-ID: <telecom12.912.14@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu
- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 912, Message 14 of 15
- Lines: 26
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- In a recent TELECOM DIGEST our esteemed Moderator writes:
-
- > [Moderator's Note: We have a lot of coke dealers in Chicago, you know.
-
- > I wonder how the Coca Cola Company feels about the way the word 'coke'
- > has been confiscated by the users/dealers of same ... not the
- > beverage, I mean the stuff you stick up your nose. :( PAT]
-
- They shouldn't mind, after all their beverage once contained cocaine,
- hence the name, COCA-COLA. Remember 'Things go better with coke'?
-
-
- W.A.
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: Thanks to the 104 of you who wrote to me with
- essentially the same message. Yes it is true; a century ago, when
- drugs such as cocaine were NOT illegal in the USA, the Coca-Cola
- Company was the largest importer of (then legal) cocaine in the
- country. The 'Coca' referred to the leaf which is used to make the
- stuff people stick up their noses. After cocaine became illegal, the
- Coca-Cola people were still permitted to legally import it for their
- beverage for awhile; they've not used it now for many decades in their
- product, substituting other stimulants instead. PAT]
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