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Saw one of these wagons on the way home which made me giggle and think of this thread.
There's a "Cockwell Inn" in Liverpool, which is the one I usually cite for that joke. (-:
In Kingston there's the "Fighting Cocks" pub which at one point had a mural outside with "COCKS" really big and fighting quite small.
There's a small chain of hairdressers around here called "Hairkiller"
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Calpis is actually really nice. Sort of like non-fizzy yoghurt-flavoured lemonade.
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These are v funny, that coach has got to be a photoshop hasn't it?
Nope. Dusseldorf bus company.
Last I heard, they were rebranding as "Fueker".
EDIT: Ah, yes, here.
Last I heard, they were rebranding as "Fueker".
Humourless f... 😉
Just like the village of ****ing, Austria "needing" to change as it gets too much attention 🙁
Disappointing to learn that powergenitalia was a spoof.
http://www.snopes.com/business/names/powergen.asp
Humourless f...
I think there's more to it and that, there's some sort of German spelling guide they have to adhere to, IIRC. I'll see if I can find it. Though, yes, I bet they're a bit fed up with English speakers laughing at them.
I've always thought that a lift company called Schindler's is just wrong.
True story...I fancied a lovely girl who I barely knew in first year of university. Being a fairly shy (around girls) 18 year old, I was a bit nervous as she got in the lift beside me one day on the way up to the library.
The 15 second silence in the lift was clearly too much for my nerves, so to break the ice I pointed at the logo on the floor of the the lift and said "ha ha, look, Schindler's Lifts! How funny is that?!!"
Apparently not that funny to a Jewish girl.
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I used to go out with a Swedish girl. Lovely she was, even if a bit on the daft side.
Anyway on our second date I went over to her place. She invited me in and stood proudly on the table was a small blue aerosol can labelled "VAG" in little grey letters.
"Wow, that's very erm, Swedish" I said, trying to make polite conversation.
"What is?" she replied, sweetly.
"The...erm...I'm sure it's completely unnecessary you know" I said, nervously nodding in the direction of the offending aerosol.
She looked over, picked it up and looked back at me before reciting the name phonetically in Swedish with one eyebrow raised.
"Fff-oooh-guh. Fog. Spelled "V A G".
How apt
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Had a few beers in here on a snowboard trip to Laax a while ago:
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spotted in china last year...
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this was my favourite though, still no idea what they were trying to say.
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There's a Fawcett Inn on Fawcett Road in Portsmouth. Used to be sell more cider than other pubs when I was a student there for some reason... 🙂
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transapp - Member
Leicester late 90'sT.Watts skip hire
Edit, they're still going!
Yep, we used to scratch the dots after the T from the side of the skips.
Theres also BeeJyas Cleaning in Leicester.
Not really relevant but Cougar's post reminded me of this classic...
The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).
In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c." Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik emthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like fotograf" 20 persent shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by " v".
During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.
Ze drem vil finali kum tru.
beanum, that's awesome!!!!! 🙂
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And although not strictly a company, this is the most unfortunate name ever (in Scotland at least)
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/wayne-raper/15/137/b85
Cant believe no one's put Mr Whippy up yet.....
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Cant find a pic of my local fave- Bee Jay's Ice Cream van.....
Czech bus-hire company:
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I did a photo of a boy from Hong Kong at a local public school... His name Will Hung.. I was crying inside 🙂
always chuckle at one of the plumbers vans we get on site, 'man with RIGID TOOL on board and willing to demonstrate' --rigid make pipe threading tools
Looking For The Right Book Store? This Ain't It
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Clinker Little of Crayford- there they are!!! 😀
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I once saw an off licence in Boston called 'Jobi Licquers'.
Forgive me if it's been done but I seem to remember a south welsh estate agent called Blight & Crook or similar.
Innerleithen High Street there is an antique shop called The Glory Hole.......!!!!!!!!
[url= http://uk.uhuw.com/business/1784677/the-gloryhole-innerleithen ]The Glory Hole Antique Shop Innerleithen High Street[/url]
An estate agent just outside Madrid.
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Anyone travelling round Copenhagen can't help but notice that their power stations are all run by DONG Energy 😯 (Danish Oil and Natural Gas).
Did a 5k corporate charity run there last year and there were literally dozens of people walking round with DONG on their t-shirts and no-one said a thing!!! (Apart from me that is 🙂 )
Thank god they're not based in this country cause we'd never be able to be quite so mature, I'm sure...
Thanks for reminding me - Prague estate agent:
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I'm sure they're very honest.
This company must be really rad and gnarly.
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Vietnamese currency is dong.
100 dong is about 3 British pence.
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rossi46 - Member
Cant believe no one's put Mr Whippy up yet.....
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There`s a manufacturer of sensors in St Albans with their company name SICK proudly emblazoned down the side of their office.
My kids always point and giggle when they pass it.
There`s a manufacturer of sensors in St Albans with their company name SICK proudly emblazoned down the side of their office.
Probably the same sick as above, logo looks familiar, used to work with their lidars.
There's a scaffolders round here with "specialists in large erections" on their van...
Oh, if we're doing unfortunate product names now, there's always this [url= http://www.planetmobility.com/store/wheelchairs/manual/colours/spazz/ ]wheelchair[/url].
With regard to the OP (TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR or AsSTR) you might want to check out [url= http://www.asstr.org ]www.asstr.org[/url] (not 100% work safe!)
I believe the correct url is assm.asstr.org which may go some way to explaining the content!!
(text - but Very NSFW)
Oh, if we're doing unfortunate product names now, there's always this wheelchair.
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surely an attempt to reclaim the name like gay and poof?
It's a cultural difference. In the US "spaz" is slang for wild and crazy, rather than over here in the UK where it's more usually accompanied with a belm.
There's been a few campaigners kicking off about it over here. The company is on record as saying something along the lines of, "if an actual user of our products complains, which they haven't, then we'll do something about it. If a focus group complains, they can do one." Which was fair enough I thought.
Oh, if we're doing unfortunate product names now, there's always this wheelchair.
😯 😀 😀 lol
I used to walk past 'Milosevic - Family Butchers' in Vancouver
[url= http://www.mummys-yummys.co.uk/ ]http://www.mummys-yummys.co.uk/[/url]
I've just driven past here and my mind is still boggling.
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Bit too much information!
It's a cultural difference. In the US "spaz" is slang for wild and crazy, rather than over here in the UK where it's more usually accompanied with a belm.
not just wheelchairs
http://www.****/news/article-1330994/Transformer-Spastic-UK-launch-scrapped-fears-cause-offence.html
Went out for a curry earlier- but decided to give this one a wide berth...
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Wide berth........ geddit? 😆
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I like it that they are "regular"
Not so much the name but the logo, ANA Airlines…
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I used to drive past 'Robin Daley' estate agents in Vic, Australia.
[url= http://www.willyworms.co.uk/ ]Willy Worms[/url]
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Great fishing bait- unfortunate company name 😀