[HBR] another take on "all talk..."

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Joe noted:
> Tokyo office of a company I used to work for. In the kind of broken 
> syntax that I have to admire from anyone who has struggled to learn 
> English as a second language, the sign exhorted us "NOT TO BE NATO". It
> was explained to me that NATO meant "No Action, Talk Only"!

My favorite commercial slogan of all time traces to the early 1960's 
when I wandered Akibahara as a Lt(jg) with far, far too few bucks.  
But one of the things I did bring back was a pair of beautiful 
multimeters, a product of the Sanwa Electric Instrument Co., 
"What bring comfort and convenience on your life."   They were the 
most accurate such meters I ever owned, very compact, and 
overall, far ahead of anything one could get in the states at the time 
and I wondered what would happen if the Japanese ever began to 
export significant amounts of electronics to the U.S...

Walt 
KJ4KV