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I can, sometimes, actually remember my dreams. Not too often, sometimes.  

About the same amount of times I remember the name of someone, or something that I was certain I wouldn't forget. 

And when I do recall my dream I find myself immediately going into that place of "what could it have meant?" A prophetic dream? An actionable dream? A remember these numbers and you have won the mega millions lottery dream? 

We are told, or at least led to believe, that there is great symbolism to be found in our dreams. So, I thought I would look this up and see what I could find. One particular site, Dream Moods divied up their site into a myriad of categories to enable us to find out about the particular significance of something in our dream. Food, animals, teeth (teeth!!?!) were a few that I thought you might find interesting. 

Your dream, you decide what you want to check out. But I can tell you I'll never look at an apricot the same way again.

Cabbage " If you SEE a garden of cabbage in your dreams, it forewarns of getting yourself into bad real estate deals" but if you are COOKING cabbage it forewarns dental problems." Dental problems?

Which then would lead me to the denture dream. If you dream that someone is WEARING dentures "they are not who they say they are.  They are being deceitful." No more Peter Rabbit types being  nice guys dream for me.

If they are eating cabbage and wearing dentures apparently you should doubly watch out.

Tonight when I go to bed I will do everything I can to dream about a HERD of buffaloes. For that, I am led to believe suggest a "life of tranquility and plenitude."  

Moo.

Yup, it appears that the ubiquitous Starbucks is rethinking what to call a few of its new stores. Recession, tastes, anti establishment, McDonald's McCafe, are perhaps a few of the reasons cited to explain the rationale behind this maneuver.

So it got me thinking.

How many name changes have occurred that actually changed the product, or the public's perception of the product?

So, I did a little research to see who had changed their name. You can make your own calls as to whether this altered your sensibilities. I might just give an editorial comment or two…

We've got Anderson Consulting that changed its name to Accenture. Turns out this was a fortuitous manuever after Anderson's accounting scandals.

Cosmair became L'Oreal. It did? Why?

Google, believe it or not, was called Backrub…go figure

Healthy Choice was called Diet Deluxe. A masterful name change, don't you think?

Jerry's Guide to the World WIde Web is now Yahoo. Which, purportedly is an acronym for "Yet Another
Hierarchical Officious Oracle".

Prince, who I am sure had yet another name (which I don't know) became a symbol (which I also don't know.)

You could also be a child of George Forman, have many siblings, all of which are called George, which makes it really easy to not get into trouble by blaming one of the other Georges.

I think I will wait and see what happens to the newly named Starbucks, rue the day I didn't buy into the heretofore Backrub now Google offering and be content that I know that a (whatever) by any other name (whatever) is still a (whatever) as long as it has lots of advertising dollars to spend to support it.

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