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Old 27-06-2013, 23:57
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Popety Ping might be Welsh but does it matter that non-Welsh wouldn't know it's precise meaning? It was quite a good sounding character to market an international range for kids with a clear onomatopoeic reference to a microwave.
This. I'm not saying it was necessarily a good brand name, but it wasn't bad just because it was in Welsh and a lot of people don't speak Welsh. A lot of people don't speak Latin, but a lot of brand names are in Latin.
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Old 28-06-2013, 00:00
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Popety Ping might be Welsh but does it matter that non-Welsh wouldn't know it's precise meaning? It was quite a good sounding character to market an international range for kids with a clear onomatopoeic reference to a microwave.
Mine beeps....Nac (?) ping.
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Old 28-06-2013, 00:04
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When I heard him say Popty Ping I didn't even realise he was speaking Welsh, I thought he was just making a microwave sound.
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Old 28-06-2013, 09:05
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I thought "Popty Ping" was actually quite a good brand name, forget its the welsh for "microwave" its a nice child friendly word.
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Old 28-06-2013, 11:22
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The task had a bit of a built-in flaw that both teams fell foul of - they were asked to develop a "range", but only given the time and resources to develop a single example from a range.

I was never sold on Alex as a potential finalist, and for me, the final five are very predictable.
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Old 28-06-2013, 17:03
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Would you trust anyone with no experience, legal training, or demonstrated ability in a field to point you in the direction of an appropriate lawyer?? Or that a small site had identified the best people in any area, and got them to sign on to its site? The consequences and costs are hardly similar to buying a tombstone, and the product is more subjective and intangible.

Branson ventured out after he had made a success in one field, as indeed did Sugar.
Why not? It would still be up to me to decide which lawyer to engage. My impression is he's only acting as an agent, putting people in touch with lawyers with the right expertise. That doesn't require legal training, any more than you would need legal training to find your own lawyer..

Of course Branson and Sugar moved on after success in their first ventures. My point was they weren't experts in their first ventures, let alone the subsequent ones. No different to Alex in that respect. By the sound of it he made money selling memorials, etc, so why not then move on and expand in another business direction?
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