I was buying a wee cigar at a local tobacconist’s shop this evening and guffawed out loud to see a box of these sitting on the counter.
I’ve only heard that name used euphemistically, me, but that girl I like just told me that her mum’s sister’s name is “Florienne.” Huh.
That’s funny enough. Then COUNTRY . Good clean homophonic fun.
By the time we get to the “Fudge,” all bets are off.
I’m sorry, but “Aunt Flo’s Country Fudge” makes me think of a really bad laundry day.
So what have y’all got in the way of WTF product names/business names/etc since the last time we did this?
kayT
October 13, 2006, 3:11am
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Not exactly a product but there’s a roofing company here called Wetmore’s Roofing. Hmm.
Eesh. I can’t believe I spelled Laboratories wrong. Twice. :smack:
Barf laundry detergent
Otis Spumkmeyer Cookies
666 cough syrup
The usual assortment of unintentionally phallic-sounding Asian product and business names (Hung Long, Long Dong, Hung Dik, Suck Mi Kok, etc.)
There used to be a firm of solicitors around here called Pink, Donger and Lowry. Pink Donger, and that other guy.
Smoe truly great law firm names,
Payne and Fears
Slaughter and Virgin and my personal favorite, Harness, Dickey, and Pierce because, if you are going to pierce a dickey, you should probably harness it first.
Okay, that’s not the name of the company, right? It’s Macdonald Dettwiler & Associates , right? It has got to be just an unfortunate abbreviation.
acsenray:
Okay, that’s not the name of the company, right? It’s Macdonald Dettwiler & Associates , right? It has got to be just an unfortunate abbreviation.
I had presumed so, but absent the appropriate abbreviation punctuation I’m perfectly willing to take it at face value.
Eve
October 13, 2006, 6:06pm
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I refuse to even think about, let alone buy, Seventh Generation Toilet Paper .
“Can I offer you a glass of Pschitt?”
“Seventh Generation Bathroom Tissue is made from 100% recycled paper, with a minimum of 80% post-consumer materials.”
Post-consumer materials indeed . Bet it smells like Pschitt.
Apparently there is a company around here called E.A.T. Waste Management Services. It always startles me a bit when I’m driving along and see a sign that says
EAT WASTE
Ludovic
October 13, 2006, 7:18pm
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Why would it startle a Dung Beetle?
kay, that’s not the name of the company, right? It’s Macdonald Dettwiler & Associates, right? It has got to be just an unfortunate abbreviation.
Reminds me of the construction firm Jack son and Ass ociates, the victim of many a childish graffito.
Here in massachusetts, at least until recently, we had the infamous candy called Squirrel Nut Zippers whuich sounds almost obscene.
I’ve used Fluke power m,eters and high voltage attenuators, but the name has always bothered me. I imagine an advertising slogan, that, to the best of my knowledge, they never used: “If it works, It’s a Fluke!”
Similarly, an English literary journal that published some of Tolkien’s stuff was Time and Tide . I imagine their editorial policy on deadlines: “We wait for no Man.”
CalMeacham:
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Band name!
Oh. Wait. It already is .
I’ve used Fluke power m,eters and high voltage attenuators, but the name has always bothered me. I imagine an advertising slogan, that, to the best of my knowledge, they never used: “If it works, It’s a Fluke!”
Ah, but in Canada we have Fluke Transport . Their slogan really is “If it’s on time, it’s a Fluke!” (The website is broken at the moment so I can’t tell if they use it there, but it’s on all of of their trucks)
The disposable swim diapers made by Huggies are called Little Swimmers . I buy them, and it always cracks me up.
Admittedly, if you have to buy them, little swimmers were involved somewhere in the process…
