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    Blair P . Hough
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    I was in the "World Market" today (they're starting to get rid of the "Cost Plus" in their printed
    matter), and noticed something that may or may not be intentional.

    It's definitely intentional that they're reducing their variety of imported pasta and pasta sauces,
    and have started stocking large quantities of a new, "store-brand" sauce and pasta.

    The funny part is, the pasta brand is "Donatella", and the sauce brand is "Donnaletta".

    The question is, did they deliberately name them like that,

    --Blair "Danish forces reported today that they have found a cache
    of WMD in a sample of farmed salmon."

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  2. A Mukluk Wearin
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    On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 06:07:51 GMT, Blair P. Houghton <[email hidden]> wrote:

    <store brands being introduced instead of maufacturer's brands>

    Quoted message said:

    The funny part is, the pasta brand is "Donatella", and the sauce brand is "Donnaletta".

    The question is, did they deliberately name them like that,

    client-side, and either two different firms doing the label production/printing/brand extension
    artwork, or two co-ordinators production firm-side who didn't talk to one another.

    Shirley Hicks, Toronto, Ontairo "My day job is at a firm that produces this sort of stuff".

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  3. Frogleg
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    Blair P. Houghton said:

    --Blair "Danish forces reported today that they have found a cache
    of WMD in a sample of farmed salmon."

    How do you think up this stuff? As it happened, the msg fit on a single screen but I had to scroll
    down 1 line to find the salmon. I always note when something makes me *actually* laugh out loud
    (startling the cat).

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  4. Sportkite1
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    Quoted message said:

    From: Blair P. Houghton [email hidden]

    Quoted message said:

    The question is, did they deliberately name them like that,

    Quoted message said:

    Sounds like a typo in your publication. See here -
    costplus.comdetail

    Ellen

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  5. Blair P . Hough
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    Frogleg said:
    Blair P. Houghton said:

    "Danish forces reported today that they have found a cache of WMD
    in a sample of farmed salmon."

    How do you think up this stuff? As it happened, the msg fit on a single screen but I had to scroll
    down 1 line to find the salmon. I always note when something makes me *actually* laugh out loud
    (startling the cat).

    Thanks, but I can't take credit for the serendipity of the revelation. I try to make the jokes work
    at all screen resolutions and contrast settings.

    --Blair "Unless maybe I do it

    like this."

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  6. Blair P . Hough
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    SportKite1 said:
    Quoted message said:

    From: Blair P. Houghton [email hidden] The question is, did they deliberately name them like that,

    Quoted message said:


    Sounds like a typo in your publication. See here -
    costplus.comdetail

    Very few of their products are shown online.

    I swear the pasta I saw (Penne Rigati, iirc) was labelled "Donatella".

    And there's nothing on the packages to indicate the true origin of what's inside them. Just CPWM's
    Oakland, CA corporate address.

    --Blair "I'm not gonna try it. YOU try it."

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  7. -L.
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    Blair P. Houghton <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

    Quoted message said:
    SportKite1 said:
    Quoted message said:

    From: Blair P. Houghton [email hidden] The question is, did they deliberately name them like that,

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:


    Sounds like a typo in your publication. See here -
    costplus.comdetail

    Very few of their products are shown online.

    I swear the pasta I saw (Penne Rigati, iirc) was labelled "Donatella".

    There is a Donatella brand of pasta - I have purchased it before. But a quick search brought
    up nothing.

    -L.

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