(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?>

 

[flapeyre]

Santa,

Don't feel too badly.

WhitePages.com shows 8 Crétins (I had only looked at LinkedIn earlier), and one of those is the owner of the business.

But darned if you aren't right: Google's dictionary says the same thing.



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[ncotton]

It may also be a play on words, depending on how you say it

Cr etin
>>>>>>>
pronounced
Cre ay'tin
>>>>>>>
meaning
Creating

as in

Creating Homes

Neil J Cotton
Technical Consultant
Anix

 

[flapeyre]

ncotton,

No, that's really the owner's name. I did a search of Whitepages.com and it lists one of the Crétins as "Owner, Cretin Homes).

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[rjoubert]

On my way home from work yesterday, I saw a van belonging to a home builder. In big letters on the side of the van, it said "Homeowner Service." Does that sound odd to anyone else, or is it just me? So they're servicing the homeowner? Shouldn't it be "Home Service?

 

[Opieo]

Well, I think that would depend on what they really do for the home / home owner.

~
Chuck Norris is the reason Waldo is hiding.

 

[flapeyre]

Once I saw a cartoon with two men standing in front of a hamburger stand with a giant neon sign that proclaimed:

E. COLI
HAMBURGERS​

Mr. Coli, maybe you ought to just change the name to "Ed's Burgers."

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[wahnula]

Did their marketing team seriously think about this product name?

How about this graphic design team?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/24/nogc124.xml

Tony

Users helping Users...

 

[jsteph]

From the telegraph article about the OGC logo:

and it is not inappropriate to an organisation that’s looking to have a firm grip on Government spend.”

--Jim

 

[jerryreeve]

Hurtgen Chiropractic

A local bonecracker; [white]keep in mind that the H is silent [/white]



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Communication Systems Int'l
com-sys.com

 

[Lightning]

Sleipnir

How did you get on with Aunty Jack?

Cheers!

 

[SkipVought]

Reminds me of a Jr Hi prank.

Everyone had a horse name, that was to be shouted out is sucession. The MARK, had the last name The LAST TWO names were

Hoof Hearted!!!

Hyded!!!

Then everyone laughed at the happless mark.



Skip,
[sub]
Have you heard that the roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was...
Sir Cumference![/sub]

 

[mattKnight]

I believe that someone seriously put a MP3 player on the marker called

"I-Beat Blaxx"

They very quickly changed the name, after complaints. ican see why!

Take Care

Matt
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

 

[LionessCass]

Skip, you mentioned the horse name "Hoof Hearted" being used as a prank...actually that was the name of a real race horse a while back. See

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nNpyWfUBaOg

-- amusing (if slightly sophomoric) stuff.
By the way, on the list of foreign products that just don't sound right in English, don't forget Sweat, a very popular drink in Japan.
Actually, you can find a lot of the hilarious results of translation from other languages into English at

http://www.engrish.com

If you've never been there before, I highly recommend it for a good laugh when you have a few minutes!

-Cass

 

[GranDegajeur]

I lived in Haiti for a couple of years. While there, Amway started to market their products through Haitian distributors. They ran into a serious problem when their cosmetic line <Satinique> was marketed. It sounds dead on identical to the the Creole (local Haitian language) word for Satanic. There is a Haitian proverb that says "Haiti is 85% Catholic, 15% Protestant and 100% Voudou" Rumors started that the Satinique line was made in the devil's kitchen and was sent by Amway to bewitch the Haitian nation. Based on two words, in two different languages, sounding the same.

 

[p5wizard]

Don't know if it is true and not really about a "product name", but I was told the following story when I was on holiday in Australia. perhaps it is just an urban legend although "urban" is maybe a bit of a misnomer...

Some 20 years ago in the Northern Territory, the universities of Alice Springs and Darwin were combined. They had to think of a name and almost chose Combined Universities of the Northern Territory. Then all of a sudden they decided not to use that name and picked NTU instead. The university has been renamed to Charles Darwin University now .


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[DansDadUK]

In my first proper job (many years ago now) we had a Computer Unit Netball Team!

 

[flapeyre]

Our school district built a combined elementary (K-3) and middle (4-6) school building. The elementary school was called Pontchartrain Elementary School, and the middle school was called Chinchuba Middle School. But another Chinchuba school (the original, which had moved to another location) sued the school board, saying its donors were confused. Fortunately, the school board did not adopt Pontchartrain Middle School as the name.

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[SantaMufasa]

Fortunately, the school board did not adopt Pontchartrain Middle School as the name.

When we lived in Pleasanton, California, my children survived with no ill effects, their attending Pleasanton Middle School.


Apparently, the founders of Stevens-Henager College briefly considered naming their institution, Stevens-Henager Institute of Technology. But when they considered the acronym as it would appear on sweatshirts, they wisely reconsidered, and changed, the name of their school.

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

 

[flapeyre]

Santa,

Ya, but how long ago was that? Was the acronym PMS used for the medical condition back then?

In our case, it was 1997.

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[SantaMufasa]

As you can see, Pleasanton Middle School is still there, where the school's motto is "Kids Come First", and not "Stay the Hell Away from me for a Few Days!". <grin>

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