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Offline jobog

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #100 on: October 01, 2015, 02:53:46 am »
Intercourse, Pennsylvania, USA, also King of Prussia, same state.  In Florida we have Christmas.
There are so many. Hell, Michigan; Belchertown, Ma; Big Bone Lick, KY; Beaver Lick, KY; Hookersville, WV; Spread Eagle, WI...

You didn't mention that near Intercourse, PA there's a town called Climax.  Also, here in Indiana we have French Lick.
 

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« Reply #101 on: October 01, 2015, 03:13:03 am »
There is a Mr Peter Ness who runs a small Furniture Removal Company not far from my home. Emblazoned down the side of the van is the Company Name "P Ness Removals".
 

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« Reply #102 on: October 01, 2015, 04:31:50 am »
There were some hippies in California that called their company Apple Computer ;)
 

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« Reply #103 on: October 01, 2015, 05:07:27 am »
And then we have the Danish town Bøgballe which in the neighbouring country Sweden (with very similar languages) means "homosexual penis"....
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #104 on: October 01, 2015, 05:47:55 am »
i am surprised that no one though of banggood
http://www.banggood.com/
   
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #105 on: October 01, 2015, 05:59:15 am »
Try saying the name of this company a few times quickly...

http://www.fodderking.com.au/

 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #106 on: October 01, 2015, 04:08:38 pm »
Sliding doors are evil...  ^-^





 
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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #107 on: October 07, 2015, 06:29:35 pm »
Projects Unlimited Inc. (P.U. Inc.)  http://www.pui.com/

Hughes Peters. http://www.hughespeters.com/

 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #108 on: October 07, 2015, 07:24:07 pm »
Picked some of these D'asses up at the Japanese market the other day. 

 

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« Reply #109 on: October 07, 2015, 10:18:07 pm »
We used to have an electrical supply house around here called Vee Dee Electrical Supply. :palm:

And there is a nearby fastener supplier called Uneeda Screw. :-+



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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #110 on: October 12, 2015, 05:07:48 pm »
uh huh
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Electrons are typically male, always looking for any hole to get into.
trying to strangle someone who talks out of their rectal cavity will fail, they can still breath.
God hates North Wales, he has put my home address on the blacklist of all couriers with instructions to divert all parcels.
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #111 on: October 13, 2015, 04:07:44 am »
There used to be a product for sale called Voltaren Analgel (from "analgesic" obviously)
It is now "Emulgel"!!

For many years,a sign on a business near me advertised that they did "Televesion" repairs.
I wondered why they didn't have it corrected,but it was memorable,where "Television" wasn't.
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #112 on: October 13, 2015, 08:43:35 am »
What are these?

The second one is hilarious. The Japanese text seems to say "Tradefair Eating Area", but obviously their translation server had an error and they thought that the error message was the translation :D

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #113 on: October 13, 2015, 08:50:00 am »
What are these?

The second one is hilarious. The Japanese text seems to say "Tradefair Eating Area", but obviously their translation server had an error and they thought that the error message was the translation :D

McBryce.
The second one is actually Chinese, and says "Dining room". In this context it actually means a small family run restaurant.
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #114 on: October 13, 2015, 10:09:31 am »
What are these?

The second one is hilarious. The Japanese text seems to say "Tradefair Eating Area", but obviously their translation server had an error and they thought that the error message was the translation :D

McBryce.
The second one is actually Chinese, and says "Dining room". In this context it actually means a small family run restaurant.

Cool, then the text has a almost similar meaning in both languages.

McBryce.
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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #115 on: November 09, 2015, 02:20:40 pm »
Misleading thread subjects are dangerous to monitors and keyboards. Almost spit my coffee  :-DD

 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #116 on: November 09, 2015, 06:52:23 pm »
Our factory in Korea used to buy parts from the 'Do One Ohm Resistor Company'. I kid you not!

Edit: and of course LG is short for 'Lucky Goldstar'
Best Regards, Chris
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #117 on: November 09, 2015, 07:01:31 pm »
Inside old Goldstar TV sets you often found a sticker which said " Lucky HIPS". Prosaically it refers to the parent company of Goldstar and LG  - Lucky manufacturing Co, and indicated the casing is made from high impact polystyrene plastic.
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #118 on: November 09, 2015, 07:11:20 pm »
Korean Companies are actually very superstitious about good luck (I guess we all are actually :) ). Such things as company names and the ubiquitous wooden pendulum clock in reception.

Another example: Sam sung translates as 'Three stars'
« Last Edit: November 09, 2015, 07:45:37 pm by Gyro »
Best Regards, Chris
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #119 on: November 09, 2015, 07:41:26 pm »
On many invoices (fiscal documents) from Farnell here in brazil, when you bought almost any OpAmp (analogic IC) they came as "XYZ CI ANAL" (CI is portuguese equivalent to IC)... Possibily something about character numbers, but it happened several times...

Always made me think all possible jokes...

Unfortunatelly Farnell is closing here...
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #120 on: November 09, 2015, 08:52:32 pm »
Bear droppings anyone?  ;D

 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #121 on: November 10, 2015, 11:07:40 am »
Capacitor manufacturer -> http://www.shinyspace.com/
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #122 on: November 10, 2015, 11:56:23 pm »
http://www.dongenergy.com/en
They're not even Chinese, what's their excuse!
 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #123 on: November 11, 2015, 12:51:56 am »
Knowing what industry drives internet traffic, you wonder if Intel was paying homage when they named their 14 nanometer technology CPU, the Braswell.

 

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Re: Funny Company Names....
« Reply #124 on: November 11, 2015, 06:52:08 am »
At work we used to have a van that when open spelt "Gay"

There was a lot of fuss around a photo that purported to be a train called the flying scotsman that with a door open spelt lying scotman with the picturte of the scottish first minister above it. It came out during the scottish referendum capaign. Apparently while the unfortunate spelling on the train with the door open is true the placement of the picture is not:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/that-alex-salmond-lying-scotsman-train-photo-is-fake#.nwK8Y6A0a

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