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Re: Strip: Albus wood strips
By:Mike Savage
Date: 4/8/2010, 2:20 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: Albus wood strips (Ken Brunton)

: It sounds like this may be a way to market wood from the poplar
: 'plantations' which popped up in the PNW several years ago.
: Rename something to make it sound exotic and market it like
: crazy. Squid sounds ugly, but calamari is gourmet. Poplar is
: uninteresting, but Albus? Must be something new and exotic. And
: wasn't Hogwarts headmaster named Albus (Dumbledore)? Must be
: magical.

Tisn't such a made-up name, one specie of poplar is called Alba (white poplar) the female version of Albus.
Interesting marketing method though. :)

Mike Savage
South West Cork

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Strip: Albus wood strips *PIC*
riston -- 4/7/2010, 9:48 pm
Re: Strip: Albus wood strips
riston -- 4/8/2010, 4:12 pm
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 4/8/2010, 6:15 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 4/11/2010, 12:51 am
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Mike -- 4/8/2010, 8:38 pm
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Paul Montgomery -- 4/9/2010, 8:24 am
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Allan -- 4/8/2010, 5:01 pm
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dhwdaniels -- 4/8/2010, 6:02 pm
Re: Strip: The Two Poplars
Charlie -- 4/8/2010, 9:16 pm
Re: Strip: The Two Poplars
dhwdaniels -- 4/9/2010, 6:25 pm
Re: Strip: Albus wood strips
Mike Bielski -- 4/8/2010, 8:19 pm
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Ken Brunton -- 4/8/2010, 12:28 pm
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Mike Savage -- 4/8/2010, 2:20 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 4/8/2010, 9:24 am
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Bill Hamm -- 4/11/2010, 12:45 am
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Mike Bielski -- 4/8/2010, 9:26 am
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graybeard -- 4/8/2010, 1:59 pm
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Jay Babina -- 4/8/2010, 7:54 am
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Paul Montgomery -- 4/8/2010, 8:33 am
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Allan -- 4/8/2010, 2:02 am