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Old Jun 26, 2010 | 2:14 am
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Originally Posted by opus17
If only Abraham Lincoln knew that an entire region would do something so stupid as to use a brand name of a particular flavor of soft drink as a generic term for all such beverages ...
You mean in a manner similar to how people commonly use the brand names Kleenex, Xerox ...
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