[NBLUG/talk] User Fun - No Names

[Michael Long]

On October 8, 1996, Matsushita Electric was promoting a Japanese PC for internet users. It came with a Japanese Web browser courtesy of Panasonic. Panasonic had licensed the cartoon character "Woody Woodpecker" as the "Internet guide." 

The day before a huge marketing campaign was due to begin, Panasonic stopped the product launch. The reason: due to translation problems, the ads featured the slogan "Touch Woody - The Internet Pecker." An American at the internal product launch explained to the stunned and embarrassed Japanese what "touch woody" and "pecker" meant in American slang. 



> On Feb 12, 2015, at 5:23 PM, gandalf at sonic.net wrote:
> 
> hand to forhead
> 
> On 2015-02-12 15:01, Kyle Rankin wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 12:24:53PM -0800, Walter Hansen wrote:
>>> A user wanted to convey to tech support the issue they had. So they
>>> took a snapshot of the screen, printed it, scanned it and then
>>> emailed it.
>> I used to work for a printer company and sometimes had lunch with their
>> tech support team. Apparently one day they took the call from an office
>> worker who had a broken office laser printer that wouldn't feed paper
>> properly anymore.
>> After working through various troubleshooting steps it turns out at lunch
>> he would take out the toner cartridge and feed tortillas through the
>> printer since the hot fuser would make the tortillas nice and warm by the
>> time they left the printer.
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