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["Wolfe, Joanna" <joanna.wolfe AT oup.com>]

This reminds me - has anyone actually seen the trunk monkey in action,
or just in the ads?

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> From:         Steven Champeon
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> Sent:         Monday, April 5, 2004 2:59 PM
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> Subject:      Re: [internetworkers] waay OT: Tao Auto
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> on Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 02:57:55PM -0400, Jim Allman wrote:
> > On Apr 5, 2004, at 2:38 PM, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> > >There is also Tao Auto on Capital Blvd (for Hondas).
> > 
> > I'd certainly give these guys a chance--they used to do great work
> on 
> > my Honda. But whatever you do, don't call it "DOW" Auto. They used
> to 
> > give me dirty looks and say, "It's TAE-OH Auto."
> > 
> > This was after years of doing business under a sign that said "TAO
> 
> > AUTO" in Chinese-restaurant script, with a giant Taoist symbol
> (the tai 
> > chi tu, a.k.a. the "yin-yang" symbol) as its logo. But they acted
> like 
> > *I* was crazy, or uppity... like T.A.O. was the owner's initials
> or 
> > something.
> > 
> > So I'm curious: Does anyone know the story there?
> 
> IIRC, TAO == "Thomas A. Owen".
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