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Under the National Post <\/i>headline “GM finds out LaCrosse not just a team sport in Quebec<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

General Motor’s plans to rechristen the Canadian-built Buick Regal passenger car as the Buick LaCrosse have hit a snag: In Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois youth culture, the word is slang for masturbation, among other things.
\nU.S. focus groups said the name lends the car a sophisticated European air, but the world’s largest automaker discovered in focus groups in Quebec that it generated giggles among young participants.<\/p>\n

(via Cronaca<\/a>, with a tip o’ the title hat to Adam<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Under the National Post headline “GM finds out LaCrosse not just a team sport in Quebec”: General Motor’s plans to rechristen the Canadian-built Buick Regal passenger car as the Buick…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133648,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/10\/to-any-denver-area-folk-who-enjoy-lacrosse-andor-fireworks.html","url_meta":{"origin":5199,"position":0},"title":"To any Denver-area folk who enjoy lacrosse and\/or fireworks","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 10-Jun-17 8:50pm","format":false,"excerpt":"My daughter's high school band will again be performing at the Denver Outlaws game on the 4th of July at Mile High. 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