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Detergent pulled in Germany over neo-Nazi code
Associated Press ^ | May 9, 2014 1:39 PM EDT

Posted on 05/09/2014 2:43:51 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Procter & Gamble has apologized for “any false connotations” after stirring anger in Germany for unintentionally placing a neo-Nazi code on promotional packages for its Ariel laundry detergent.

Outraged shoppers had posted pictures online of Ariel powder boxes featuring a white soccer jersey with a large number “88.” The number is sensitive because far-right extremists in Germany often use it as a code to skirt a ban on the use of Nazi slogans in public: since “H” is the eighth letter of the alphabet, “88” represents the phrase “Heil Hitler.” Similarly, “18” is used to stand for “A.H.” or Adolf Hitler. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 18; 88; detergent; neonazis; procterandgamble
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To: Olog-hai

For Chinese, 88 is a very lucky number


21 posted on 05/09/2014 3:24:50 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: null and void

Speaking of ‘69 (ahem), noone has mentioned Ted Kennedy’s Oldsmobile yet.


22 posted on 05/09/2014 3:25:08 PM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: dangus
Incredibly, many ancient copies of the New Testament say the number of the beast is 616!

That is amazing. Looks like they really were using 666 (resp. 616) for Nero.

23 posted on 05/09/2014 3:25:30 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: dangus

There is a similar story about Bill Gates - if you add up the ASCII values of each letter in his name it comes up to 663. Bu since he is Bill Gates III, well you get the idea.


24 posted on 05/09/2014 3:27:19 PM PDT by beef (Who Killed Kennewick Man?)
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To: PGR88
Looks like Dez Bryant better get a new number.


25 posted on 05/09/2014 3:27:42 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: null and void

Fish Ink?

I don’t get it...


26 posted on 05/09/2014 3:30:03 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: Olog-hai

Nascar would drive them nuts.


27 posted on 05/09/2014 3:31:59 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Delta Dawn

Not the comment I was fish ink for, but...


28 posted on 05/09/2014 3:32:16 PM PDT by null and void ( They don't think think they are above the law. They think they are the law.)
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To: Olog-hai
“88” represents the phrase “Heil Hitler.”

We were always trained, that the 88 referred to the fact, that there are 88 words in their creed.

29 posted on 05/09/2014 3:39:12 PM PDT by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Vet 70-71 Msgt US Air Force, retired)
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To: Mark17

Oops, 14 words in the creed.


30 posted on 05/09/2014 3:42:23 PM PDT by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Vet 70-71 Msgt US Air Force, retired)
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To: null and void

It just occurred to me. How can something be null & void at the same time. If null, there cannot be a void. If void, there could be something there which would not be null.

Geesh, this reminds me of the time that my parents couldn’t decide on whether to abandon me at the Greyhound station or to volunteer me to the Army for advanced nerve gas testing.

It left a void in my life that left me feeling kind of nullish. Oh what to do, what to do...


31 posted on 05/09/2014 3:42:41 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: Delta Dawn

Before there was a universe I was...


32 posted on 05/09/2014 3:46:10 PM PDT by null and void ( They don't think think they are above the law. They think they are the law.)
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To: null and void

I always did wonder what that halo-like light was all about above your head...


33 posted on 05/09/2014 3:51:10 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: Delta Dawn

That’s a bug light, from my days in Beaufort...


34 posted on 05/09/2014 3:56:01 PM PDT by null and void ( They don't think think they are above the law. They think they are the law.)
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To: Olog-hai

well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle

I thought 18 was Chinese for good luck, who knew?


35 posted on 05/09/2014 3:58:02 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: ViLaLuz
Jr's new car number will be:

8-8

8+8

8.8

or ?

36 posted on 05/09/2014 4:00:22 PM PDT by TYVets
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To: Olog-hai

So what’s the best way to refer to the famous German 88mm gun?


37 posted on 05/09/2014 4:17:52 PM PDT by MeganC (Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.)
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To: tet68

You are on to something about 2815!....

2 from 8 is———6......

1 plus 5 is ———6.....

and...
2 plus 1 plus 8 plus 5 is 17, and as most of us know,...1 from 7 is———6......

How did we not see that?


38 posted on 05/09/2014 4:24:23 PM PDT by John Galt's cousin (WTF? We couldn't rescue four men in Benghazi? Is our military IMPOTENT? ( /s ))
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To: Olog-hai

people are insane


39 posted on 05/09/2014 4:28:07 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: TurboZamboni

18 wheelers —

Maybe the 18 is not base 10?

maybe hex, = 22 base 10.

So we are in trouble. Most any number can be converted (in whatever base is necessary) to some dreaded 88 or 18, etc.

Kind of like mathematical PC. Which would be MC, mathematical correctness.

I am trying SO HARD to stay out of trouble!


40 posted on 05/09/2014 4:31:38 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (You can count my felonies by looking at my FR replies.)
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