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Funny Company Names....
Dave:
--- Quote from: stmdude on September 13, 2017, 03:18:27 pm ---Nope, no funny belts. Just a garage filled with wires, soldering irons and old cellphones...
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Cool clock, Ahmed! :-DD :-DD
Mr. Scram:
--- Quote from: m98 on September 13, 2017, 05:41:30 pm ---I do have another one: The company that I work at (some random defense contractor) does actually have a department named "IS training academy". Go figure.
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At least it's more descriptive than IS NOT training academy.
vk6zgo:
--- Quote from: Mr. Scram on September 13, 2017, 02:47:37 pm ---
--- Quote from: m98 on September 02, 2017, 09:27:16 am ---Some German ones:
Killtec - An outdoor clothing brand
ISIS - beauty treatments
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I loathe how "Isis" suddenly has become a naughty word. It's been a well known and used name before the whole angry men thing. I know a girl named Isis. It would be terrible to let them appropriate it. In my eyes, they get to borrow it for a bit at best, but the term is actually something else.
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It always seems weird to me that a group of extreme Monotheists would use an acronym which was the name of a pagan goddess.
Of course, it doesn't have that meaning in Arabic, so maybe it doesn't bother them that non-Arabic speakers read the English version as "ISIS".
Apparently even the Arabic acronym Da'esh is frowned on by some in that organisation because the individual words in its derivation can have perjorative meanings.
RJFreeman:
Back in the 80es, Honeywell Information Systems Merged with a French company called "Compagnie des Machines Bull" (and NEC) and over the next few years Honeywell then 'reduced their ownership' (presumably sold their shares) until in 1991 Honeywell Bull was renamed simply:
Bull Information systems
Brumby:
Reminded me of a meeting once where a software salesman was asked a question. They gave a response and then added: "Trust me."
The others in the room had various reactions ... and I don't think many were of the trusting type.
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