# Unfortunate/worst branding ever? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 18, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-worst-branding-ever/473383 "2008-11-18T23:27:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-worst-branding-ever/473383/81 "2008-11-21T05:27:32Z")
[http://www.spanish-country-villa.com/ftons/page2.html](http://www.spanish-country-villa.com/ftons/page2.html) ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-worst-branding-ever/473383/82 "2008-11-21T07:39:18Z")
Welcome to [Penetrations!](http://www.penetrationsinc.com/) I laugh every time I see one of their trucks… Spotted on the side of a tool truck: “It takes a MIGHTY tool to please a pro!” Huh. Who’d’a thunk? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![BACI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@BACI](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BACI)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-worst-branding-ever/473383/83 "2008-11-21T08:39:31Z")
I grew up on this stuff: [http://www.dairyfarmers.com.au/df/ourproductsandrecipes/cheese/coon](http://www.dairyfarmers.com.au/df/ourproductsandrecipes/cheese/coon) ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-worst-branding-ever/473383/84 "2008-11-21T08:58:56Z")
I bought for $2 a shop counter display box containing 12 little bags of rock candy. When you tip it out it looks like that coloured aquarium gravel. I only bought it for its unfortunate name - **Uranus**. Now when people drop by our area at work we can offer them the chance to, “suck on Uranus” or “lick Uranus”. I noticed today that 5 bags have gone apart from the one I opened. So we do have, somewhere, some eaters of Uranus. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-worst-branding-ever/473383/85 "2008-11-21T09:12:03Z")
How can anyone expect quality information and analysis from an outfit called **Standard & Poor’s**? ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-worst-branding-ever/473383/86 "2008-11-21T09:27:43Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > ETA2 and [penisland.com](http://penisland.com) Uh, that seems to be a porn site. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-worst-branding-ever/473383/87 "2008-11-21T11:28:58Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > Uh, that seems to be a porn site. [penisland.net](http://penisland.net) was the correct URL for this situation. However, it’s only “unfortunate” if you believe they actually didn’t know what they were doing, or if you count how many times that confusion has happened. ---
**Author:** ![aerodave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f08c70/32.png) [@aerodave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aerodave)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-worst-branding-ever/473383/88 "2008-11-21T13:03:12Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > At Alice Cooperstown restaurant in downtown Phoenix (owned by Alice Cooper), they have a giant hotdog named Randy Johnson’s Big Unit, named after the the 6’10" baseball player. The difference between that and the other things in this thread is that the “Big Unit” is almost certainly intended to mean what you think it means. With the other examples, the double entendres are probably not intentional. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-worst-branding-ever/473383/89 "2008-11-21T13:26:38Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > **CRAP** – the name of the Conservative Reform Alliance Party, which was chosen when the Canadian Conservative party merged with some brethern further to the right. That reminds me of Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President, or CREEP. It fit very well, as it turns out. ---
**Author:** ![Tikster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@Tikster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikster)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-worst-branding-ever/473383/90 "2008-11-21T13:39:49Z")
Electrolux [add](http://images.google.dk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.crazy-media.com/grafik/rb/fgad32/35.jpg&imgrefurl=http://richmondtransits.blogspot.com/2006/10/ads-misunderstandings.html&usg=__v4IPbvW4mYEe-67-Shno8QeXl3I=&h=352&w=300&sz=26&hl=da&start=4&um=1&tbnid=z5WoWwx3JzhNgM:&tbnh=120&tbnw=102&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dnothing%2Bsucks%2Blike%2Belectrolux%26um%3D1%26hl%3Dda%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:da:official%26sa%3DN). Muwahwah ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-worst-branding-ever/473383/91 "2008-11-21T14:28:44Z")
Sorry that this one isn’t about sex, but… I’ve always been mildly horrified by the Sherwin Williams Paint logo. Take a look: [![](http://www.ourfixerupper.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/sherwinwilliams.jpg) ](http://www.ourfixerupper.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/sherwinwilliams.jpg) Global ecological catastrophe or worldwide conquest allegory – take your pick. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-worst-branding-ever/473383/92 "2008-11-21T16:03:47Z")
> [@aerodave](#): > > The difference between that and the other things in this thread is that the “Big Unit” is almost certainly intended to mean what you think it means. > > With the other examples, the double entendres are probably not intentional. I know; I wouldn’t have posted that in this thread except as a reply to the post I quoted. “Yes, I’ll have a hummer” isn’t anywhere near as bad as putting Randy Johnson’s Big Unit in your mouth. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-worst-branding-ever/473383/93 "2008-11-21T16:04:14Z")
Right here in Cumberland, we have The Adam’s Family Funeral Home. Yes, I know the cartoon/show was spelled with a second ‘d’, but still. . . ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-worst-branding-ever/473383/94 "2008-11-21T16:21:38Z")
I wonder how sales are going for Bush’s beans? ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-worst-branding-ever/473383/95 "2008-11-21T16:26:13Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I wonder how sales are going for Bush’s beans? Well, I still buy 'em. I wouldn’t care if they were called Evil Nazi of Death baked beans, they are the only baked beans out of a can that I don’t need to “doctor up”! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-worst-branding-ever/473383/96 "2008-11-21T16:36:44Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > The two dancing figures at the bottom, the heads are the “nipples” It’s like that drawing where you see two faces in profile and then see the vase in between. Ohhhhhhhhhhhh. I get it. I get jokes. Joe ---
**Author:** ![zenith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zenith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zenith)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-worst-branding-ever/473383/97 "2008-11-21T16:56:33Z")
A local construction company recently changed its name from **Davis Erections** to **Davis Steel Erections**. ---
**Author:** ![constanze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@constanze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/constanze)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-worst-branding-ever/473383/98 "2008-11-21T18:50:15Z")
> [@minlokwat](#): > > I always thought **Siemens** was a terrible corporate name; evidently, they don’t.. Okay, please explain what’s terrible about the [name of the scientist/inventor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_von_Siemens) who founded it over a [hundred years](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens) ago? Maybe you’re pronouncing it wrong? Words from other languages should not be pronounced as if written according to English spelling, but according to the rules of their native language, so in this case, it’s See-mens (I don’t know IPA symbols). ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-worst-branding-ever/473383/99 "2008-11-21T19:12:00Z")
sounds like _semen_. ---
**Author:** ![constanze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@constanze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/constanze)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-worst-branding-ever/473383/100 "2008-11-21T22:34:29Z")
Then you’re forgetting the “s” at the end. As a 10-year-old, when traveling to Austria, we always thought “Zipfer” beer was a hilarious name. (Note: Zipfel = german slang for penis). Of course, that’s only amusing for 10-year-olds. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-worst-branding-ever/473383.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-worst-branding-ever/473383.md?page=6)