Isn’t a human, or a whale, an animal?
What if it’s a robot?
I could see calling such things a “plush toy”. But not just a “plush”. And even then the name wouldn’t be self-evident on the first encounter. But would be obvious and memorable enough given a first example.
Though the one actual product/service I can think of with “plush” in its name was “The Plush Horse”.
Which was a now defunct “gentlemen’s club” AKA “tawdry strip joint” in Las Vegas. The sign was a gigantic critter shaped like My Little Pony but the color of Barney the Dinosaur. Drove by it on the way to work for years. Not a good choice of name for a kid’s product when the strip club comes top of mind. Then again, I’m not the target market for buying kids stuffed toys.
I'm another one for disliking nicknames, clever diminutives, etc.
It sometimes seems each business wants to come up with a contrived (but carefully trademarked) cutesy name for themselves as just another way to occupy more slots in your brain space and, they hope, thereby crowd out your memory of some competitor. “Mickey D’s” my ass. More like “Scheming Bastards”.
More of a local thing for me.
Rochester, MN/Med City
My over the air TV stations broadcast out of Rochester, MN. 1 station will not say “the weather, the city council , an accident south of, etc…” Rochester Minnesota but will say “Med City”. I have looked on the map and there is no “Med City” in the area of Rochester, MN.
I know why they do it. Rochester is home the the Mayo Clinic. Hard to take their news team seriously if they can’t call the city by the correct name.
Not a product, but a place, and although technically correct, bugs the shit out of me. Using ‘Playa’ for Dry Lake. Sounds so fucking pretentious and hipster. I fucking hate it! It would be just fine in Patagonia or Northern Africa, but not here, Goddammit!
Huh. Don’t remember that one, but I lived down the road from “The Tender Trap”. Went there once and left ASAP when the Stripper With The Eye Patch hit the stage.
I haven’t thought about “The Tender Trap” in years. Thanks for the burst of nostalgia. I don’t recall where it was and I doubt I ever visited, but I always gave them extra style points for the name. I know I drove by it now and again, wherever it was.
Google Maps responds to “tender trap, Las Vegas” with a pin on a Club Platinum on Flamingo east of the Strip between Koval & Paradise. That’s interesting; I wonder what Google was thinking? Does that ring a bell with you as the former site of the Tender Trap?
I’ve never seen a stripper with an eye patch. I did have a woman working for me in a legit office job who also worked on the side as a stripper at a third-rate neighborhood club. Late 20s, 2 kids, and a hubby. Played a pretty convincing MILF on stage. Then she got pregnant again. Her tip income skyrocketed as she showed more and her dancing got less athletic. Or so she told us all. She finally quit dancing at about the 8 month point and quit working for me a year or so later. I never found out if she went back to dancing.
Vegas - it’s just not a regular place.
I’d try McHaggis.
Yeah, that’s about right. God, that place was Dank.
Red licorice. Licorice is black, and so named for the licorice plant. Just because it’s ropey and sticky, it doesn’t make that red stuff licorice.
Along those lines, I object to the confectionaries called marshmallows, truffles, and buckeyes. None of them include ingredients from the plants they are named for.
Actually let me add any kind of “tea” that isn’t make from the tea plant.
Good one!
I worked at Toys R Us for 2 1/2 years (rest in peace you sons of bitches, I love that they went bankrupt) and we had a “plush aisle”. Every time I heard it mentioned my brain kept conjuring rows of overstuffed sofas covered in crushed velvet. Not Tickle Me Elmo and 100 kinds of cartoonish dogs.
WTF? Do you have a dossier on me or something? How would you remember something I posted almost 20 years ago?
But I’ll tell you what, you listen to the headache inducing thump through the walls of growling bear music for a few hours and tell me which is more pit worthy, that or someone occasionally using the word Kleenex instead of tissue.
Then pity the guy named Peter Johnson.
Could be worse. What about poor old Johnson McJohnsonface? Talk about being schlonged by Fate! Or at least by vindictive parents.
Don’t be scared, I don’t keep tabs on you, beyond being aware that you’re a bit of a grouch in general; but it’s easy to do a search on what threads a given poster has started in a given forum.
I don’t think either of them is really worth complaining about, although a poll about annoying product nicknames is at least more original and interesting than the same old “kids-today-and-their-lousy-music” rant. But a nice thing about this forum is that anybody can rant about whatever they want to, regardless of any threadshitty whines that a particular topic doesn’t “deserve” a Pit thread.
I just thought of another one, though my experience is limited to some Black folks I’ve seen on daytime court tv(which serves me right for watching it): diapers always seem to be referred to by the brand name Pampers. I don’t know if that usage has always been around but I’ve never heard it IRL.
Its around since at least the early “80s when I started working in an Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery. It quickly became generic, like Kleenex or BandAid.
Peter O’Toole did pretty well for himself, though, despite having a name that’s a double phallic symbol.
I hear you! (I’m in the same TV market.) Although I give them some credit, since there some other places such as the “Twin Cities”, “Quad Cities”, the "Metroplex’, etc.
Something else that really bugs me about that TV station is the weather reporter (don’t dare call him a meteorologist, since he consistently gets snow amounts wrong): he can’t resist say snowfall when snow will do.
Now I do know that when snow is falling from the sky, you could reasonably call it snowfall, but to say “there is five inches of snowfall on the ground” is just ridiculous. The Minneapolis (Twin Cities!) stations rarely say “snowfall”; they are satisfied with the word snow. Seems as if he likes using a longer word when a simpler word would do…