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Help[Opinions] Re: Mercedes?
in reply to a message by Flash
I don't like it that much - it is a car.
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It was a female name before it became the name of a car
Personally I met the name before I knew of the car (Mercedes in "The Count of Monte Cristo". The car was named after a woman, not the other way around.
"But it’s all right now.
I learned my lesson well.
You see you can’t please everyone
So you got to please yourself."
Rick Nelson, GardenParty
"It does not become me to make myself smaller than I am." (Edith Södergran 1891-1923)
Personally I met the name before I knew of the car (Mercedes in "The Count of Monte Cristo". The car was named after a woman, not the other way around.
"But it’s all right now.
I learned my lesson well.
You see you can’t please everyone
So you got to please yourself."
Rick Nelson, GardenParty
"It does not become me to make myself smaller than I am." (Edith Södergran 1891-1923)
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