(In)Appropriate Product Names 3

[RCorrigan]

I saw this one yesterday ... had to read it again as the font made it look like something else .......

"Mr Shifter -- Toilet Bowl Cleaner"

<Do I need A Signature or will an X do?>

 

[dwarfthrower]

It's to do with Strine and the way some aussies sometimes stress their pronounciations.

And our tendency to avoid pausing between words. In a similar vein, the National Party here in Australia (rural conservatives) used to be known as the Country Party. Announcing "I'm a Country member" would be met by those of differing political affiliations with "Yeah, I remember".

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[SantaMufasa]

Sounds like Aussie politics truly make strange bedfellows.

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]

 

[SamBones]

There's a car company, KIA Motors. I always pronounce the letters individually, K.I.A. (Killed In Action for those not familiar with the acronym).

 

[SkipVought]

How about SAP? The company makes it clear that it is S A P, and not sap, which, of course, is a viscous plant fluid, OR a pitiful looser.

Skip,
[sub]
Did you hear what happened when the OO programmer lost his library?...
He's now living in OBJECT poverty![/sub]

 

[dwarfthrower]

Department of Aviation here is usually referred to as D.O.A. which I tend to associate more with "dead on arrival".

[sub]Never be afraid to share your dreams with the world.
There's nothing the world loves more than the taste of really sweet dreams.[/sub]
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[flapeyre]

...how come Volvo has been able to "get away with it" for all these years?

They have a legitimate explanation: Volvo is Latin for "I roll".
Similary, radio means "I radiate", video means "I see", and audio means "I hear".

Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo.

 

[flapeyre]

There was an pre-Pearl Harbor acronymn used by the US Navy:

CINCUS

for Commander-in-Chief, United States Fleet.

(pronounced sink us).

Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo.

 

[rjoubert]

Another funny acronym used by the US Military:

AFRTS (Armed Forces Radio and Television Service)

 

[rjoubert]

I found this site while searching for funny product names. The name of the Hellena beverage (9th picture down) made me chuckle.

http://www.overclockers.com/articles1238/index04.asp

 

[Michael52x]

Hey, Skip, try Viagra for the pitiful looserness.

"Impatience will reward you with dissatisfaction" RMS Cosmics'97

 

[jerryreeve]

When I was on a deployment to egypt we had to cover the name "Nike" on our shoes, jackets etc. before we could go into Cairo. we were told it was a "vulgarity" with no further explination, I did a quick search today and couldn't find a reference other than to note that there were no nike products available in the egypt marketplaces.

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JerryReeve
Communications Systems Int'l
com-sys.com

 

[rjoubert]

Does anyone else chuckle when they see that Oprah Winfrey's production company is called "Harpo"? I realize that it's Oprah spelled backwards, but wasn't that also the name of a whale?

 

[flapeyre]

Harpo was one of the Marx brothers, wasn't he?

Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo.

 

[SantaMufasa]

wasn't that also the name of a whale?

Are you thinking of harpoon (the lance-ended javelin that whalers use to kill whales)?

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]

 

[rjoubert]

Harpo was one of the Marx brothers, wasn't he?

Yes, he was.

Are you thinking of harpoon...

You know, I don't know what I was thinking. For some reason, when I hear or see the word "Harpo" I think of a whale. I can't seem to find a valid reference to Harpo the Whale though. Maybe she's just one of my imaginary friends.

 

[vanka25]

Does anyone else chuckle when they see that Oprah Winfrey's production company is called "Harpo"? I realize that it's Oprah spelled backwards, but wasn't that also the name of a whale?

That just makes me think of harpies. Draw your own conclusions.

 

[SamBones]

Many moons ago we used to refer to the "Commander-In-Chief, Pacific Fleet" as CINC PAC FLEET NIN COM POOP.

It has a certain rhythm to it.

 

[rjoubert]

This isn't exactly a product name, but...a few years ago, in the world of "professional" wrestling there was a character named Rosey who started training to become a superhero like another wrestler named, The Hurricane. Rosey kept his name, but he was given a title of SuperHero In Training.

 

[rjoubert]

I just found this one on a blog site about Finland (written by an American who has lived in Finland for the last 4 years)...

Super Piss: a windshield wiper fluid. The jets where the water comes out are called "pissapoika" in Finnish (pee-boy). "Pissa" is a very mild word in Finnish. However, it is not so mild in English.

 

[pinkgecko]

My favorite is a drive-through liquor store I saw in Covington, Kentucky: Liquor Quik.

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