Unfortunate/worst branding ever?

http://www.spanish-country-villa.com/ftons/page2.html

Welcome to Penetrations!

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? :stuck_out_tongue:

I grew up on this stuff:

http://www.dairyfarmers.com.au/df/ourproductsandrecipes/cheese/coon

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.

How can anyone expect quality information and analysis from an outfit called Standard & Poor’s?

Uh, that seems to be a porn site.

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.

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.

That reminds me of Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President, or CREEP. It fit very well, as it turns out.

Electrolux add.

Muwahwah

Sorry that this one isn’t about sex, but…

I’ve always been mildly horrified by the Sherwin Williams Paint logo. Take a look:

Global ecological catastrophe or worldwide conquest allegory – take your pick.

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.

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. . .

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”! :wink:

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh. I get it.

I get jokes.

Joe

A local construction company recently changed its name fromDavis Erections to Davis Steel Erections.

Okay, please explain what’s terrible about the name of the scientist/inventor who founded it over a hundred years 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).

sounds like semen.

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.