Tidbits & Outrages
Tidbits & Outrages Next: All Richards Forbidden to Use Their Nickname After two high school students discovered that the word “squaw” comes from the Ojibwa word for “vagina,” the state of...
...Giving New Meaning to Money Laundering Tokyo Mitsubishi Bank now features an “anti-germ branch” with ATMs that distribute disinfected money...
...Big &Tall” Menswear A Big Hit,Though Microsoft chose the translation we Yuan for its Japanese operation...
...Courier Journal editor David Hawpe on reporters’ campaign coverage, at a Freedom Forum panel in September...
...Who Needs the Tooth Fairy...
...The judge awarded him $7,500...
...Translated literally as “small and soft,” it has not been well-received by Japanese men...
...Now With Bimbo Deductibles The National Union Fire Insurance Company now ofers “crisis management” insurance, which pays up to $50,000 in spin-doctoring costs when a company has a public relations disaster GOP Get-Outthe-Vote Effort Bold, but Flawed A man with a bob Dole mask robbed a Chicago-area bank in October, reminding the teller as he left, "Don't forget to vote...
...Perot Screeches National Anthem, Hocks a Loogie and “Adjusts His Cup,” Wins Election “We missed things that Perot and Buchanan tapped into, and we missed them because we don’t watch ‘Roseanne’ and we don’t take her seriously...
...Tidbits & Outrages Next: All Richards Forbidden to Use Their Nickname After two high school students discovered that the word “squaw” comes from the Ojibwa word for “vagina,” the state of Minnesota required all local governments to rename any natural landmarks with “squaw” in their names...
...A six-year- old boy in Durham, N.C., sued his mother for a car accident that caused him lose a baby tooth...
...How to Minimize Customer Complaints Bell Atlantic got its own phone number wrong in the new edition of its suburban Maryland phone books...
Vol. 28 • December 1996 • No. 12
