Robert Peffers
2/3/2008 3:15:00 AM
"Andrew Swallow" <am.swallow@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> The Horny Goat wrote:
> [snip]
>
>
>> I'm chiefly surprised the Woolworth's purchasing agents had not heard
>> of Nabokov's novel.
>
> I do not beleive them. The purchasing agents probably just laughed
> at the name and then puts the goods on sale. Now they are just saying
> "Not guilty your Honour."
>
> Andrew Swallow
The point is that, if they made no silly connection, why would they find
anything strange?
There is not a given name that has not been used in a book, play or film
somewhere along the line and people do not automatically make connections
between the given names and works of fiction.
Why should this particular name be any different?
We get all sorts of names and such as Pandora seem acceptable yet the story
is that Pandora opened the box that let all the ills of the World out to
inflict us.
So, again, why should this particular name make people agitate to have what
seems to be a decent product banned?
Seems to me the fault exists in the overly dirty minds of those who would
ban a good product because of its name.
Let me quote the Shakespeare take on this matter, "What's in a name? That
which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet".
--
The real Auld Bob Peffers,
Kelty,
Fife,
Scotland, (UK).