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Reminds me of "story of a car that wouldn’t start every time its owner bought vanilla ice cream". http://www.kepner-tregoe.com/blog/help-my-car-is-allergic-to-

• 9935c101ab17a66 9y ago
  That story is so incredibly far-fetched, and further comprised by the not-so-subtle product plugs liberally sprinkled at every turn.
  • sundarurfriend 9y ago
    It sounds like it was written or told by an engineering person and then mangled into this BusinessExecutive™-speak by some marketing person. And the story doesn't have that big a payoff to justify that either. All the plugging did was make me slightly annoyed and averse towards the brand and that bloody catchphrase.
    • 1wd 9y ago
      The story has apparently been recounted and rewritten many times since at least the "June 1978 issue of Traffic Safety magazine". https://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/icecream.asp https://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/icecream.asp
      • magic_beans 9y ago
        That makes the biz-speak story posted on the KT website all the more distasteful.
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• cellover 9y ago
  Please, somebody, create a website that centralizes all these weird bugs! Could be a very good resource to "debug things", try and approach problems with different approaches.
  • pjc50 9y ago
    It's a bit more serious, but good old RISKS DIGEST is worth a read for this kind of thing. https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/ https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/