I never realized that. I always thought that people were trying to
avoid spelling it out. Guess I don't go there enough! But I see people
doing that with other store names, too, maybe it just got started with
trying to get wal*mart's name correct and has accidentally become part
of internet culture.

JIm

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:38 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
> At 09:24 PM 9/21/2009, Jim Felder wrote:
>>
>> Why can't people just say ebay instead of "e-place" and walmart
>> instead of W**mart and other ridiculous cryptic euphemisms like that?
>>
>> Snipped from thread < as I have them on "that E-place" also.>
>
> Beats me. �I've seen it a time or two, here and other places, never had a
> clue why. �Of course Wal*Mart is just a transcription of their logo, not the
> same thing at all.
>
> Yours,
> David
>