Inimigos da HP ( Enemies of HP ) Message #1 Posted by Gerson W. Barbosa on 1 May 2006, 10:42 a.m.
No, this is not a consumer group unpleased with the company's latest calculators, it's just the name of a music band from São Paulo I saw on TV ads during my stay in Porto Alegre last week.
The name is a reference to HP calculators, not the company itself.
From the band's webpage (an approximate translation):
"The [band's] name is a nice joke! The group is composed of five engineers, an advertiser, a graphic designer and a lawyer. During their college years all eight musicians with no exception used HP calculators. During their free time they put their calculators aside and dedicated themselves to Samba, hence the choice of the now nationally known name."
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Original text in Portuguese:
"O nome é uma bem sacada brincadeira! Fazem parte do grupo cinco engenheiros, um publicitário, um designer gráfico, e um advogado. Durante a chamada carreira acadêmica, os oito músicos, sem exceção, fizeram uso de calculadoras da marca HP (Hewlett-Packard). Nas horas de descontração, deixavam as calculadoras de lado e se dedicavam ao samba, daí a escolha do nome que hoje é reconhecido nacionalmente."
http://www.inimigosdahp.com.br/index.htm
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