Back in the late 90s, Lotus was an underwriter for Boston radio station WBUR. Around the same time Lotus president Jeff Papows had written a book called Enterprise.com. During the course of the day, WBUR announcers would list the station’s underwriters and some aspect of their business. One of the announcers would occasionally stumble when trying to say Lotus SmartSuite and would say Lotus SmartSuit instead. When noting that the Lotus president had written a new book he mispronounced Papows’ name as Pa-POW rather than PAP-us. Combining these two mangled pronunciations sounds like a superhero:
Jeff Pa-POW and his Lotus SmartSuit
Given his tendency to embellish his record, I imagine that the ex-president would be pleased with that description.
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