>>>I sometimes use USers, but that gets confusing if someone makes the S small. :)
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>>< With apologies to Theodore Bikel and whoever he stole (borrowed) from >
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>>"I have called these people the Weens because certain archeological evidence inclines us to the belief that they called their country the We ---- or the Us."
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>During the 1960's there was a town in Japan that gave itself the name USA (you saa). Many Americans were very mindful of where things were manufactured so they would look for Made in USA - and they got what they paid for!
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>Tom
Yea, Tom, this goes along with your Demming stuff very nicely. You'll remember that virtually all Japanese goods were laughable in quality. I can still remember a slogan of the day (at least here in Canada)..."Made in Japan, from old beer cans". Even their cardboard boxes cracked under stress of any kind and virtually all were made of whatever that you could still read Japanese writing in the stuff.

Yet look where they are now!!!!
When Datsuns first hit the market everyone laughed. And the first Hondas had a real bad paint adhesion problem. But it has taken years for US car makers to get up to par with them, once they (Japanese) set out to "fix" their problems.

JimN