Re: Mosquito repellent "Kin Kan"??

Don Kirkman wrote:
It seems to me I heard somewhere that Kevin Wayne Williams wrote in
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Don Kirkman wrote:

It seems to me I heard somewhere that Kevin Wayne Williams wrote in
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Paul Blay wrote:


Kinkan is the name of the _company_ not the spray.


Just to add a linguistic content to the discussion, I cracked up when I learned the Papiamentu word for "insectide."


It's "flit."
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dsads/index.shtml for the history impaired.


"Flit" was an American brand name for a popular insecticide before WW
II. I'm likely the only one here who remembers it. Motto: "Quick,
Henry, the Flit!" It must just be another borrowing into Papiamentu.


There's a swell photo of a Flit gun at
http://www.packagemuseum.com/exhibits/flit01/flit01.htm; Ted Geisel [Dr.
Suess] was involved in the 1930s advertising campaign, about the time he
put out several collections of schoolboy boners and before he made it
big in children's writing.


You should click that link from my post, Don. I promise that you will find it interesting.


I never click on links offered without some indication of contents. :-)
Anyhow, during my skimming of Google I never stumbled across the one you
cited.

Just in case you still haven't looked, it's a very good collection of Geisel's advertising works.
KWW
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