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Funny Company Names....
NiHaoMike:
--- Quote from: 8086 on September 13, 2017, 02:26:09 pm ---I used to work for a company named Double D Electronics
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There's an organization called DD-WRT that makes router firmware. The "DD" apparently was for "Daily Driver", referencing the time when its main rival OpenWRT didn't have a very good GUI and was thus not good for the average user.
amyk:
Coocheer. Appropriate name for a boroscope maker? :o
vk6zgo:
A new restaurant just opened here in Perth, with the name "Laputa".
I thought it a bit strange, so checked with a Spanish-English translation site.
The complete word "Laputa" has no bad connotations, but the separate parts:- "La Puta" translate as
"The Whore".
coppice:
--- Quote from: vk6zgo on September 16, 2017, 02:53:27 pm --- A new restaurant just opened here in Perth, with the name "Laputa".
I thought it a bit strange, so checked with a Spanish-English translation site.
The complete word "Laputa" has no bad connotations, but the separate parts:- "La Puta" translate as
"The Whore".
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See Gulliver's Travels or the Hayao Miyazaki movie Laputa: Castle in the Sky, which adopts ideas from Swift.
Neomys Sapiens:
Once I looked out of curiosity for commercial representations of the family name 'Wutz' (Southern German for Pig, Hog). Most occupations yielded ONE, if any. To my great astonishment, there are THREE electrical contractors.
http://www.wutzgmbh.de/
http://www.elektro-wutz.de/
http://www.elektrowutz.de/index.html
Made me think! There might be a connection to our receptacles, though!
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