[QUOTE=fiddlesticks] Fifth Third Bank sounds like a joke name to me. I’m half disappointed the FAQ on their homepage doesn’t explain their name.
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In my last job, they were a client of mine. As I was driving to their offices from the airport, I saw that the avenues were numbered (i.e. 1st street, 2nd street, etc.). I thought I had it figured out at that point.
The corporate headquarters was NOT at an interection of 5th-something and 3rd-something. There is no intersection like that. There never has been.
I don’t know if it’s the past Mathlete in me, but I always referred to it as “One and Two Thirds” in our home offices. No-one laughed.
I saw this in Denmark, so it isn’t exactly fair as they are wont to use English names and sometimes they use them a bit clumsily (not very often though). I used to ride by some business called “People Group” every day. I have no idea what the hell they do, but I found it hilariously vague. It sounds like something you’d make up on the spot.
I always kinda figured it was some sort of recruitment agency like ManPower. The webisite is peoplegroup.dk
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I used to ride by some business called “People Group” every day. I have no idea what the hell they do, but I found it hilariously vague. It sounds like something you’d make up on the spot.
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Like George Costanza’s charity “The Human Fund.”
When the company I worked for first got a computer with a CD-ROM (1995-ish), the optical drive came with a CD version of a telephone directory. We used to play with it searching for unusual names…such as “Jesus Christ” (who, if I recall, lived in southern California).
One time, on a search for “klutz” we found a listing for “Klutz Well Drilling” Now, it seemed to me that even if it was a fine and established surname, I’d have thought twice about using it in the name of my company.
I just did a google search and although they don’t have a web site, apparently, they still exist.
Makers of high end electrical /electronic test equipment. Fluke. I always thought they should use the following as an ad line: If you get the right reading it’s a Fluke. :eek:
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I’m always suspicious of places with generic names that don’t really mean anything, like “Applied Services Ltd”. It makes me wonder what they’re hiding.
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'Round these parts, it would probably be the name of a marijuana clinic.
I was surprised to read in a recent thread here that Hotblack Desiato is the name of a London realty, and that the name was not borrowed from Douglas Adams but vice-versa.
[QUOTE=Ludovic] I only ate at a Houlihan’s once but it struck me as a less cut-rate Bennigan’s: the stuff seemed fresher, tastier, and classier selections, and the decor was definitely classier.
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I agree.
Houlihan’s:Bennigan’s::Outback:Sizzler
none of it is four star cuisine, but one is definitely a rank above the other. I enjoy going to Houlihan’s (try their baked potato soup: OMG!) and Outback, I endure Bennigan’s and avoid Sizzler (are there even Sizzlers in Illinois anymore?)
Head to a gentrifying neighborhood, and take a look at the names of the Irish-themed bars. Many seem … well, fake, in a television sitcom “Let’s go to [name of bar]” kind of way. Here’s some bar names in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood:
Johnny O’Hagan’s
Gunther Murphy’s
Harp and Shamrock
Peg Leg Sullivan’s
Not many of the “P.J. O’Flanigan’s” or “J.P. O’Murphy’s” type names, but still, the names sound ideal for sitcoms.
Linens N’ Things sounds fake to my ears because it seems like a name that is like the kind some Jean Teasdale-type would apply to her small-town kountry kitschy business; imagine Beads n’ Things, Cards n’ Things, Gifts n’ Things, Scrapbook Supplies n’ Things, and the like. I also see a lot of kitschy small town businesses named [something] 'n Stuff.
I only ate at a Houlihan’s once but it struck me as a less cut-rate Bennigan’s: the stuff seemed fresher, tastier, and classier selections, and the decor was definitely classier.