Author Topic: The badly-named businesses thread  (Read 113398 times)

hellymedic

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #250 on: 07 August, 2015, 07:06:24 pm »


Actually, this is a British firm which clears septic tanks and jets drains...

Jaded

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #251 on: 08 August, 2015, 12:40:15 am »
Bastard Automobile in Sallanches

It is simpler than it looks.

Giraffe

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #252 on: 08 August, 2015, 12:04:17 pm »
Not a business as such: software utility for pasting clips of text called TwinkiePaste. The developer probably has Smeg white goods.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #253 on: 23 September, 2015, 03:52:22 pm »
Bastard Automobile in Sallanches
I remember seeing a firm of the same name somewhere in France circa 1986.
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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #254 on: 23 September, 2015, 06:53:42 pm »


Actually, this is a British firm which clears septic tanks and jets drains...
Therefore badly named because it's not Italian.
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Torslanda

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #255 on: 23 September, 2015, 07:25:36 pm »
But it definitely 'does what it says on the tin'!
VELOMANCER

Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Guy

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #256 on: 24 September, 2015, 08:30:30 am »
I saw a smallish sheet-sided vand yesterfay morning with the letters "f g m" writ large on the side, which I thought was a bit unfortunate considering what most people now think of when they see those letters.

Still, if it helps to keep the issue in the public eye it can't be a bad thing.
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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #257 on: 24 September, 2015, 12:47:02 pm »
Rhyming slang FTW!  ;D

Or not, as the case may be...  :-X :sick:

Quote from: Aunty Beeb
The owners of a kebab shop which sold food contaminated with human faeces have been ordered to pay compensation to customers who became ill.

A rare strain of E. coli - only the second outbreak of its kind in Europe - was found at The Khyber Pass in Nottingham in June 2014.
In August, owners Mohammad Abdul Basit and Amjad Bhatti pleaded guilty to breaching food hygiene regulations.
(Emphasis mine)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-34337626
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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #258 on: 24 September, 2015, 01:40:54 pm »
Every time I see an advertising hoarding for http://www.dbassremovals.com/, I wonder why anyone would want to have their ass removed...

Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #259 on: 28 September, 2015, 06:12:33 pm »
I've just noticed on Linkedin that a colleague from a while back now works for the CDCard Company ... truly appropriate, actually.

Aunt Maud

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #260 on: 28 September, 2015, 06:25:57 pm »
There's a carpenter round out way called Klit.

Apparently if your house is skidt, ring til Klit.

Or in the lingo "Har dit hus det skidt, ring til Klit"

rogerzilla

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hellymedic

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #262 on: 01 October, 2015, 11:51:57 pm »
Pedant alert!
Why use an octagon for your company logo?
http://tinyurl.com/q2vbv5v

Torslanda

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #263 on: 02 October, 2015, 08:59:20 am »
Pedant alert!
Why use an octagon for your company logo?
http://tinyurl.com/q2vbv5v

I'm nicking that!
VELOMANCER

Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

T42

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #264 on: 02 October, 2015, 09:10:16 am »
^Me too.
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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #265 on: 02 October, 2015, 10:01:56 am »
Pedant alert!
Why use an octagon for your company logo?
http://tinyurl.com/q2vbv5v
that is brilliant. It's like a parody of that design meeting where the engineer tries to explain why the triangle can't be made up of parallel lines.
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T42

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #266 on: 02 October, 2015, 10:04:52 am »
"...because they only meet at infinity."

"How do you know? Have you been there?"
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Giraffe

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #267 on: 02 October, 2015, 04:11:11 pm »
"...because they only meet at infinity."

"How do you know? Have you been there?"
I did at work - good for covering my own arse.
2x4: thick plank; 4x4: 2 of 'em.

hellymedic

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #268 on: 03 October, 2015, 11:15:47 am »
Pedant alert!
Why use an octagon for your company logo?
http://tinyurl.com/q2vbv5v

I am minded to start an 'Ignorance that makes you cringe' thread the next time I see something like this...

Andrij

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #269 on: 02 December, 2015, 05:39:27 pm »
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

T42

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #270 on: 02 December, 2015, 05:43:25 pm »
Quote
Google is a play on the word googol - the term for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros

No it isn't. They really thought it was spelt that way.
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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #271 on: 02 December, 2015, 05:49:19 pm »
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

woollypigs

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #272 on: 02 December, 2015, 05:56:04 pm »
Current mood: AARRRGGGGHHHHH !!! #bollockstobrexit

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #273 on: 03 December, 2015, 09:07:58 am »
The curious thing is how spunk got from bravery to, well, spunk. Presumably through having balls.
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T42

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Re: The badly-named businesses thread
« Reply #274 on: 03 December, 2015, 09:28:02 am »
Barley-corn, barley-corn, injun-meal shorts,
Spunk-water, spunk-water, swaller these warts.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight