[rescue] JERKER success

[Mattias Nordlund]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:54:22PM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Kevin wrote:
> >
> > > For those of us no where near an IKEA store, why are they calling
> > > this a "JERKER"?
> >
> > I'd presume because you put your monitor on it for calibration.
>
> IKEA always uses weird names for its products, that can be pronounced
> roughly the same in most languages they do business in .
>

Nope, IKEA names most products in swedish, mostly names, Jerker is a
boys name in at least Sweden. But also cities, adjectives and such.

/Mattias