Over there in The Old Country do you have kleenex, jello, dumpsters, band-aids, q-tips or magic markers (which are the daddies of sharpies)? Trade mark names that have become used for anyone's product that's pretty much the same - see http://www.rinkworks.com/words/eponyms.shtml
Jim (actually there are, so far, few competitors for Sharpies, but surely they will come)
