Holiday wish from Mr. Goto
Mark A. Mandel
mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU
Thu Dec 21 15:22:04 UTC 2006
JL notes:
>Us waggish monolinguals always giggle at "Kinkos."
According to Wikipedia:
The company was founded in 1970 by Paul Orfalea, whose nickname was
"Kinko" because of his kinky (curly) hair.
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedEx_Kinko's
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