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Offline Naguissa

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #275 on: May 03, 2018, 10:41:15 pm »
Today we got to know that the notorious Cambridge Analytica of the recent Facebook controversy has shutdown...
only to reborn again with a new name: Emerdata.

That tells at least one thing: in their marketing/branding team they don't have any French or Italian staff, or somebody would have cautioned them against using a company name that sounds like Itsshitty  :-DD

Add catalan, portuguese and gaelican to the list.., even spanish more or less...,   

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #276 on: May 12, 2018, 10:36:37 pm »
Today we got to know that the notorious Cambridge Analytica of the recent Facebook controversy has shutdown...
only to reborn again with a new name: Emerdata.

That tells at least one thing: in their marketing/branding team they don't have any French or Italian staff, or somebody would have cautioned them against using a company name that sounds like Itsshitty  :-DD
Even Toyota knew to release the MR2 in France just as the MR
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #277 on: May 12, 2018, 11:12:43 pm »
My favourite is the British (now International) bookmaking company Ladbrokes!
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #278 on: May 12, 2018, 11:20:17 pm »
Even Toyota knew to release the MR2 in France just as the MR
Honda planned to release the Honda Fit/Jazz with a different name. They changed their mind when the promotional materials they sent out was met with protests from Sweden.
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #279 on: May 13, 2018, 02:59:46 am »
Have an old invoice from a jeweller in Hong Kong airport, Fook jewellers. Was for a ring my father bought in 1981 during a trip to Japan.
 

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« Reply #280 on: May 13, 2018, 08:06:01 pm »
Very appropriately named;
https://puckerbuttpeppercompany.com/
 
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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #281 on: May 15, 2018, 05:24:22 am »
My favourite is the British (now International) bookmaking company Ladbrokes!

I thought that was just truth in advertising (for a change)
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #282 on: May 15, 2018, 08:09:38 am »
Reminds me of joke I read some 20 years ago:

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Micro soft: It needs Viagra


Now looking at the Windows logo, I wonder if it's going to be a diamond shape in the next iteration.
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #283 on: May 17, 2018, 03:15:31 am »
Say it three times quickly...
 
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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #284 on: May 17, 2018, 12:38:20 pm »
DanDong Bettersize (they've since dropped the DanDong)

Sod It LLC

Simply Bollocks

Wanker's Corner

(This is like looking up rude words in the dictionary.)
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #285 on: May 17, 2018, 01:54:21 pm »
Mitsubishi called one of their cars "Pajero" from the Leopardus pajeros (south american mountain cat).

Needless to say that this model was not exactly a high runner in Spain  :-DD

Dictionary says:
Pajero [persona] Que se masturba con frecuencia.
Pajero [person] That masturbates frequently.
 
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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #286 on: May 17, 2018, 05:00:03 pm »
Mitsubishi called one of their cars "Pajero" from the Leopardus pajeros (south american mountain cat).

Needless to say that this model was not exactly a high runner in Spain  :-DD

Dictionary says:
Pajero [persona] Que se masturba con frecuencia.
Pajero [person] That masturbates frequently.
That car seems to have a different name in each market - Pajero, Montera, Shogun. etc.
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #287 on: May 17, 2018, 05:34:12 pm »
The first of many times i drove through France, i passed a hotel after a vandal;with a sense of humour.
the huge sign on the side said ' Hotel Premier ass '  he smashed the C off the front and the E off the end.(Hotel Premier Classe)
In tenerife we saw coffee called 'chitti' (shitty)..AND IT WAS!
we had a parcel delivered (badly) by a company called TransHit; their sticky tape around the mangled box read 'TRANSHIT'
my ex-wife went to school with a girl called Theresa Green; spoken in her 100mph Liverpool accent 'treesa-green'.
my son noticed a T-Shirt in a supermarket trying to copy the group 'backstreet boys' logo...unfortunately 'Back Side Boys'...?
that's what happens when someone who 'thinks' they can speak english orders crap from china!
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #288 on: May 17, 2018, 08:01:00 pm »
FeelTech

FeelElec
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #289 on: May 20, 2018, 11:30:55 pm »
Was at a trade show over the weekend and discovered there is a company in China that makes Milling machines called Threeway.
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #290 on: May 22, 2018, 07:37:33 am »
Was at a trade show over the weekend and discovered there is a company in China that makes Milling machines called Threeway.

I suggested a "Threeway Mill" to the wife last night. She was even less enthusiastic about it than my other equipment purchase ideas. :D

McBryce.
30 Years making cars more difficult to repair.
 
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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #291 on: March 27, 2020, 01:07:45 am »
I'm not sure what a dick blick is, but it sure looks crafty...

https://www.dickblick.com/
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #292 on: March 27, 2020, 02:17:05 am »
Fun fact, the domain "threesome.com" is for sale for a whopping 240 000 USD. :o
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #293 on: March 27, 2020, 02:33:32 am »
How about Sick USA?
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #294 on: March 27, 2020, 02:36:16 am »
How about Sick USA?

Hahah, "SICK smart sensors". Now that's a really sick name.
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #295 on: March 27, 2020, 03:08:15 am »
Whenever I have some problem with my car, I always take it to Fucks Car. They're the best.



 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #296 on: March 27, 2020, 05:21:39 am »
I still snicker every time I drive past Tacoma Screw and they've been there for years.
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #297 on: March 28, 2020, 12:56:33 am »
I worked for a Swiss company that was taken over by Siemens, the UK office was in Staines.
The receptionist quit four days later, after all the crank calls (many of them internal), waiting to hear her announce "Good Morning Siemens Staines, how may I help you?".

Ladies & gentlemen,we have a winner! ;D

When speaking English, I am always careful to pronounce Siemens correctly as Zeemans.
 
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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #298 on: March 28, 2020, 02:32:46 am »
Some years back, a panelbeater in my suburb, by the name of Hans, had a business called "Hans-on panel repair"

In the next industrial unit was a car exhaust company called "Butts-0n exhaust systems"!

No doubt just a coincidence.
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #299 on: March 28, 2020, 11:57:42 am »
A Chinese lithium battery supplier called Ultra Fire
 
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