“I need your creative input. I’ve spent the better part of last three years developing a portable, miniature microwave oven. Most of that time has been spent focused on coming up with a hip name for the product, that will appeal to the marketing holy trinity: college students, morbidly obese, and homosexuals. Unfortunately, legal just informed me that the name we settled on for our bite-size microwave, The BiteNuker, is highly offensive to those who speak French or Dutch. A Franco-Dutchman would pronounce it ‘Bedneuker.’”

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