On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:28:15 -0800, Jeff Liebermann
wrote:

They didn't PTFE when Bill Lear invented the first "Motorola" car
radio.

Well, much of this thread is over my head now, sort of, but ftr, I was
40 years old before I realized why it was called "motor-ola"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Lear

Interesting. For example: Learisms:

# On electronics, "There's only one thing worse than an intermittent,
that's an intermittent intermittent."
# On weight reduction in the Learjet, "I'd sell my grandmother to save
one pound."