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04-01-2007, 12:28 PM
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I recently bought a packet of "Original Long Burning Firelighters" labelled "Improved Formula" and "Improved Cube Shape". Can anyone tell me what 'original' means?
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04-01-2007, 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted by henrya  I recently bought a packet of "Original Long Burning Firelighters" labelled "Improved Formula" and "Improved Cube Shape". Can anyone tell me what 'original' means?
henrya | Well in my complete and unabridged Collins it says:
ADJECTIVE 1 of or relating an origin or beginning 2 fresh and unusual;novel 3 able to think or carry out new ideas or concepts 4 being that from which a copy,translation, etc,is made 5 the first and genuine form of something, from which others are derived...............shall I continue?
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04-01-2007, 02:10 PM
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Originally Posted by henrya I recently bought a packet of "Original Long Burning Firelighters" labelled "Improved Formula" and "Improved Cube Shape". Can anyone tell me what 'original' means?
henrya |
How do they improve a cube?
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04-01-2007, 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Garden Carpet How do they improve a cube?jaki | And how can something that is 'long' also be a 'cube'? |
04-01-2007, 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul mabbott And how can something that is 'long' also be a 'cube'? | ROFLMHO Paul... now I didnt see that... thought it meant burning time.. silly me 
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04-01-2007, 03:22 PM
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Imorove a cube - ask Rubik.
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04-01-2007, 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by henrya I recently bought a packet of "Original Long Burning Firelighters" labelled "Improved Formula" and "Improved Cube Shape". Can anyone tell me what 'original' means?
henrya | Original=as it was in the beginning ?
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04-01-2007, 04:15 PM
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Not sure how they can be both original and improved, either.  |
04-01-2007, 07:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Garden Carpet ROFLMHO Paul... now I didnt see that... thought it meant burning time.. silly me
jaki | It's very ambiguous - does it mean 'long' in one dimension, 'long' lasting or following a 'long' line of other 'originals'? This is what advertising people do - use words as ambiguously as possible to appeal to everyone!  they're not called 'creatives' for nothing - they create new meanings to words that we always thought we understood!  |
04-01-2007, 10:25 PM
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Did see some envi friendly firelighters in Sainsbury a while back, can't remember what made them greener.
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