In a message dated 2/24/02 6:09:29 PM, [email protected] writes: << My husband does laundry, including stripping the bed and remaking it, and cooks and cleans house. >> Vicki: You could make a fortune writing a "How To Train Your Husband" book! Sandi ;)

Girls, My husband does laundry, including stripping the bed and remaking it, and cooks and cleans house. Vicki

In a message dated 2/24/02 11:54:17 AM, [email protected] writes: << So what's wrong with him doing the laundry. >> My husband does it all the time since he gets up so early and needs something to do and I don't stop him. I just won't let him do my clothes. Sandi

So what's wrong with him doing the laundry. I know.....my husband won't either. Norma

In a message dated 2/24/02 10:37:38 AM, [email protected] writes: << I hadn't done laundry all week. Jackie >> Jackie: He doesn't know how to use the washer and dryer? LOL Sandi

Ouch! That hit home big time. Yesterday he informed me he had on his last pair of clean underwear! between work and going to the Library, I hadn't done laundry all week. Jackie

Got this from another list and thought you might enjoy it. Patricia GENEAHOLICS' SPOUSES GO TO THE DOGS by H. David Morrow Much has been written lately about the tragedy of addiction to genealogy. While one must pity those afflicted with this malady, their own disorientation pales when compared to that of those who must live with geneaholics. The geneaholic can seek counseling, can join a support group (often called a Society), and may soon even be able to get into a 12-step program. There is none of this for the spouse of a geneaholic. Night after night, male spouses must endure cold dinners, if there are any at all. They must do their own washing in order to have enough underwear to wear to work. Their beds are only rarely made and the sheets changed only when threadbare. If the spouse is older and has to make in-the-dark trips to the bathroom during the night, he or she must step carefully so as not to kick over a pile of papers. The real danger is slipping on a single piece of paper and breaking a hip. The spouse must endure interruptions of sporting events on TV in order to hear about the discovery of a relative who was "not in my direct line, but a sister of the cousin of the sixth child of my great-great-great-grandmother's third husband." Further, spouses are supposed to administer back rubs when the geneaholic has spent far too much time sitting in front of a keyboard and monitor. Spouses are also supposed to fix computer glitches that may arise from downloading megabytes of "relevant, relative" information. We are expected to drive to cemeteries, deliver film to and pick up pictures from the processor, make endless trips to the post office, take days off to visit obscure courthouses looking for sometimes elusive and mostly unreadable documents from the 1800s, and generally go to bed alone. There are, however, some upsides. The only real household chores I must do, besides cook my own dinner, are replace light bulbs in my wife's desk lamp and change cartridges in her printer. (We started using paper plates when the dishwasher and sink both were filled to capacity.) I haven't emptied the trash since I learned about the addiction. I get to spend quality time with my dog, who never regales me with stories about related horse thieves and murderers. I am considering starting a new organization called D.O.G.S., which stands for Despondents of Geneaholic Spouses. This is a good name because when the meeting notice comes, the mail person will think you are merely going to a group that appreciates dogs. The carrier won't, therefore, be able to inform all the neighbors that an addict lives on the block. Besides, when I don't give full attention to my wife's e-mail from a cousin she never knew she had, when I am not ecstatic over a new piece of information, and when I don't accept her invitation to spend hours in the library looking at census films, she thinks I'm a dog anyway.

In a message dated 2/23/02 7:20:37 AM, [email protected] writes: << Hey, I was being so careful not to type 'red beer' soup! >> That is your excuse, as always, and you are going to stick by it! Uh, how long did it take you to come up with that feeble excuse? Now, are you going to post the red beer soup recipe or what? =^..^=

Arrived today. There are no Maupins listed. Send your choice for lookup in this old directory. No charge. [email protected] ... . .

> Pat I am impressed with your findings. I think you report is worthwhile. > On the subject of cowboy boots. I know a lot about that subject. > Do You know why some cowboy boots have pointed toes????? > To squash cockroaches in the corner of the room......... This was a 9 page report. I never thought International Marketing could be this interesting (to me at least). When we lived in Germany, the Germans were taken with all things Cowboy and Western. They would have dress up parties with a Western theme. Whenever we went somewhere and a German noticed we were Americans, they would excitedly ask "Where are you from?" and We'd say "Texas" and they would just be thrilled. I couldn't help but feel sorry for the Americans who would answer "Kansas" or "Minnesota" or some non-cowboy state. We found out that this all stemmed from a series of books that a German writer, Karl May, wrote about the old West. He had never been to the US, but that didn't matter. The Germans loved this series and imagined that everything the guy wrote was factual. And corny? Oh, was it corny! His main characters were "Old Shatterhand" and his Indian friend "Winnetou." Here is a quote from a site about European-produced Western movies: "In 1962, however, German producer Horst Wendlandt and director Harald Reinl teamed up to make The Treasure of Silver Lake, based on the frontier stories of German writer Karl May. Filmed in Yugoslavia with American actor Lex Barker and Frenchman Pierre Brice in the lead roles, this tongue-in-cheek adventure proved extremely popular with European audiences. Other producers jumped on the bandwagon and by 1964 some two dozen German, Italian and Spanish Westerns had been made. " This is a quote from a site about Karl May--and it has been translated from German to English with somewhat funny results: Since generations Karl May (1842-1912) belongs world-wide to the most popular and most widely read German writers. The German-language total circulation of its in the wild west of North America and in the Orient 19. Century exceeds playing adventure narrations the 80 million. Translations are present in 30 languages. On the basis valuable bibliographic-literary special certifications become views of the life, which work and working of the famous Saxonian writer obtain, who attained Winnetou and old Shatterhand, Hadschi Halef Omar and Kara Ben Nemsi world fame as a creator of the imperishable adventure shapes. So, our cowboy boots have evolved from the extreme pointed toe types as B.F. said, but to the Germans, that is terrible! No telling what they would think about "walking heels" either. Pat

Hey, I was being so careful not to type 'red beer' soup! Pat > > << red been soup >> > > Uh, Pat, red been soup? Where has it been? LOL > > Pat made a mistake, Pat made a mistake! > > =^..^= > > > ==== MAUPIN-CHAT Mailing List ==== > Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. > <http://pml.rootsweb.com> > Brought to you by RootsWeb.com. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Vicki: GREAT! Chuckling Sandi

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In a message dated 2/22/02 3:41:19 PM, [email protected] writes: << red been soup >> Uh, Pat, red been soup? Where has it been? LOL Pat made a mistake, Pat made a mistake! =^..^=

Pat I am impressed with your findings. I think you report is worthwhile. On the subject of cowboy boots. I know a lot about that subject. Do You know why some cowboy boots have pointed toes????? To squash cockroaches in the corner of the room......... . . . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 5:40 PM Subject: [MAUPIN-CHAT] More oddities for marketing > Germans buy over 500,000 pairs of cowboy boots annually, but US companies > get little of the business because the Germans consider the toes in US > boots not pointy enough. > Italians dislike grapefruit-flavored Gatorade, while Germans love it. > Many Europeans think Hershey chocolate bars taste bitter. > The British do not like Jell-O unless it comes in a solid or wafer form. > General Mills introduced its cake mix into Japan that could be prepared in > an electric rice cooker, but the product turned out to be unsuccessful > because Japanese homemakers believed the cake mix might contaminate the > purity of their rice. > Heinz is showing the rest of the world how to eat ketchup: advertisements in > Greece show consumers how ketchup can be poured on pasta, eggs, and meat, > but they found that Europeans like spicier, hotter ketchup than do > Americans. > Brazilian housewives determine their self esteem by their home making > abilites and the importance of making soup from scratch eliminated any value > of a soup from a can, Campbell found. > Japanese are "anti-can" since most walk to the market and don't like to > carry heavy cans. > Campbell Soup company has divided the U.S. into 22 distinct markets based on > unique cultural and ethnic tastes and preferences. Example include spicy > Ranchero beans and Nacho cheese soup in the Southwest, Creole soup in the > South, red been soup in Hispanic markets, pepper pot soup for Philadelphia > and zesty pickles for the Northwest (I sure hope this isn't the name of a > soup!). > > Oh, and in case you were interested, they found American consumers preferred > blue and almond colors for their Rubbermaid containers. > > And, on one last note: I saw a Mitsubishi today and those are diamonds, not > triangles. I found that Mitsubishi means "diamond" in Japanese. > > learned something new today! > > Pat > > > ==== MAUPIN-CHAT Mailing List ==== > RootsWeb forbids posting of copyrighted material without permission of the author. Read RootsWeb's Acceptable Use Policy at > <http://www,rootsweb.com/rootsweb/aup.html> > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Germans buy over 500,000 pairs of cowboy boots annually, but US companies get little of the business because the Germans consider the toes in US boots not pointy enough. Italians dislike grapefruit-flavored Gatorade, while Germans love it. Many Europeans think Hershey chocolate bars taste bitter. The British do not like Jell-O unless it comes in a solid or wafer form. General Mills introduced its cake mix into Japan that could be prepared in an electric rice cooker, but the product turned out to be unsuccessful because Japanese homemakers believed the cake mix might contaminate the purity of their rice. Heinz is showing the rest of the world how to eat ketchup: advertisements in Greece show consumers how ketchup can be poured on pasta, eggs, and meat, but they found that Europeans like spicier, hotter ketchup than do Americans. Brazilian housewives determine their self esteem by their home making abilites and the importance of making soup from scratch eliminated any value of a soup from a can, Campbell found. Japanese are "anti-can" since most walk to the market and don't like to carry heavy cans. Campbell Soup company has divided the U.S. into 22 distinct markets based on unique cultural and ethnic tastes and preferences. Example include spicy Ranchero beans and Nacho cheese soup in the Southwest, Creole soup in the South, red been soup in Hispanic markets, pepper pot soup for Philadelphia and zesty pickles for the Northwest (I sure hope this isn't the name of a soup!). Oh, and in case you were interested, they found American consumers preferred blue and almond colors for their Rubbermaid containers. And, on one last note: I saw a Mitsubishi today and those are diamonds, not triangles. I found that Mitsubishi means "diamond" in Japanese. learned something new today! Pat

That was interesting! =^..^=

In a message dated 02/22/2002 10:15:22 AM Central Standard Time, Brings to mind the story about the Chevy Nova which did not sell well in Mexico because "no va" in Spanish is roughly translated as "won't go". Patricia [email protected] writes: > There is more about design and names, etc. I didn't want to bore anybody, > but I just found it fascinating in that it brought forth ideas that I didn't > know existed about selling products in an international market. > > Pat >

There is more along that line...for example, the Japanese word for 4 sounds like the word for 'death' so products grouped in fours don't sell well. in Mexico, a yellow flower symbolizes death or disrespect, floral designs on soap packages were given a low value by Hong Kong consumers because it seemed too feminine. Frango chocolates did not go over well in Portugal because 'frango' means 'chicken' in Portuguese. Packages featuring a dove in America makes people think of 'peace' whereas in Japan the dove is the symbol of death. The swastika is associated with Nazi Germany in Western societies but in Asian societies it is a sign of good luck and perfectly acceptable to have on a package. (note: the German swastika rotated to the right whereas the American Indian swastika rotated to the left; perhaps it is the same with Asian forms of this symbol.) When Gerber introduced baby food in jars to Africa with its standard picture of a baby on the label, the mostly uneducated consumers thought the jars contained ground-up babies. Marketers avoid using a triangle shape in Hong Kong, Korea, and Taiwan because the triangle is considered a negative shape in those countries. (but not in Japan, evidently, or how do we explain the Mitsubishi logo?) Philip Morris in Hong Kong had to change the phonetic name of its cigarette from three syllables (mo li see) to four (mor ha li see) because the first signified "no luck" and the latter meant "conferred luck upon the consumer." and then there are the cultural things like consumers in Holland preferring white containers while those in Southern Europe prefer red....

Last week, while I was looking up that ridiculous story about Heinz making pasta in the shape of swastikas during WWII, I ran across something really interesting that I wanted to share. It is a lecture on International Marketing given by Prof. Paul Herbig. I am not sure of the college, but the initials KWU are on it. Could it be Kentucky Western Univ.? Anyway, here are some excerpts from his lecture which caught my eye. " Gillette often has to sell the idea of shaving before it can sell its blades. In some countries, facial hair is removed with a machete or a sharp edge of glass. To persuade these men that shaving can be easier and more comfortable without losing its macho qualities, Gillette sends a van from village to village carrying its salesmen and equipped with all the essentials. Free razors are given (however in classic Gillette fashion, blades must be purchased). To counter the discovery that few Mexican men who shave used shaving cream, Gillette introduct plastic tubes of shaving cream that sold for half the price of its aerosol. The effect of culture upon a product can be directly tited to the total product concerpt. Different cultures provide different values to different psychological features. For example, Lever Bros attempted to introduct their packaged frozen food line into developing countries, where refrigerators rarely existed in the home. Recognizing the futility of this, the company developed and marketed a line of dehydrated vegetables. Pop Tarts proved to be a failure in England; they were considered too sweeet for the English palate. Even more detrimental, though, was the fact that most potential buyers did not have toasters. Automobile styling shows distinctly cultural patterns. German taste is rooted in nature and its slow changes and enduring quality. Thus Mercedes designs change slowly and must be carefully balanced to last as long as they do. Nothing stands out on a Mercedes; all elements are carefully balanced. Conversely, the Japanese tend to put thier cars in front of a wall whereas Westerners are apt to use nature as a backdrop. In Japan's tight streets, cars are most often viewed in close-up, thus the Japanese like ornament and creased to entertain the eye when viewing the car in segments;Americans design their cars to look their best from 20-30 feet away --it is the whole picture rather than details which is desired. When Westerns conjure up an image of a car, it is from the side view. With the Japanese, it is frontal. The Japanese read personality and expression into the "face" of the car. Their concerns are whether the 'eyes' are too sleepy or awake and whether the 'mouth' is appropriate. Westerners are drawn to a muscular smoothness in cars while the Japanese reject animalist traits in their car and cannot accept the Western world's attraction to leather. When market pressures induced the Japanese to use leather upholstery, they are first removed the smell---the very thing Westerners tend to find most appealing about leather interiors. While Westerners are attuned to remodeling, reworking, changing a bit at a time, the Japanese are used to starting with a clean slate." There is more about design and names, etc. I didn't want to bore anybody, but I just found it fascinating in that it brought forth ideas that I didn't know existed about selling products in an international market. Pat