[Coco] Very OT - Dialects: WAS Re: Mary, what's a Hoosier? :)

[Roger Taylor]

At 03:20 PM 3/11/2007, you wrote:
> > And "DHL"... BAM, out of nowhere... those yellow vans shooting around
> > town just out of nowhere one morning, in every city.  Could it be
> > that DHL makes us think they are as fast as DSL ?  Surely not.  But
> > both like sounding words came into play right about the same
> > time.  It'll work for a while then it won't.  They'll end up renaming
> > their business soon to "T-ONE" ?  I work for UPS so I just had to
> > throw this one in.  My bad.
>
>The company was founded in 1969 by Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hillblom, and
>Robert Lynn; the initials D, H & L of the founders' last names form the
>company name. Guess it is owned by the Deutsche Post (German Postal
>Service) now...


Regardless, DHL and DSL both experienced little booms at about the 
same time.  Go figure.
  :)




-- 
Roger Taylor