Soldato
I was out yesterday with the missus and came across a shop called Moose Knuckle. I wonder if they knew what it meant
Ridiculous business names
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Having a silly but memorable name (if that's how you want to put it) isn't automatically a good thing but neither is it automatically a bad thing.
Is the aim of a brand trying to sell stuff to kids for middle age blokes to 'like' the name? I don't think it is.
They'll want parents to remember it but it's the kids that they want to like it, so that they ask for it.
Soldato
Lee King plumbers
What if you're late 30s and still live with your daddy? Maybe he has a point?
Soldato
I believe there's a brand of ice cream cone in India called "Hitler".
Yup... - https://www.hindustantimes.com/indi...-cream-cafe/story-C6usCqTUqv4zAeU30b0GVM.html
Soldato
Not as a core product they don't.
Soldato
'Splunk' comes to mind. Sounds like an x-rated video website, but is actually all about 'big data' processing. Then again it's a very memorable name, so in that regard it's quite a good name because it's ridiculous.
Yeah I didn't know what it was but the highlight search function on the phone autocorrected it and told me it was kids school supplies seamlessly.
So it worked and you've advertised for them, might be a good gift for the nephew for Christmas so might look in lol.
Imagine being a parent shopping with a young child for school stuff.
How much fun are you gonna get watching them say that name and then smiggle themselves?
Mileaged single male is probably not thier target market for that name
Heh this does remind me one of the biggest apple resellers in the country with all WHITE, very white, stores is named "Stormfront".
Tbf someone did the maths on how much data some jizz can carry and how long it takes. It was phenomenal tbh.
The packet loss rate is terrible though
Caporegime
My favourite is a carpet cleaning service I've seen a few times.
Sinbads.
Not bad in itself but he used the slogan "you've tried the cowboys, now try the indian".
Perhaps not fully in the spirit of the thread but makes me sigh and smile every time.
Sinbads.
Not bad in itself but he used the slogan "you've tried the cowboys, now try the indian".
Perhaps not fully in the spirit of the thread but makes me sigh and smile every time.
That's like the sewerage trucks going around with affluent in your effluent and satisfaction or your product back type slogans.
Soldato
Indeed. Probably the same people who are baffled by modern art
Soldato
The text-speak era was the worst.
Phones 4U was at least an actual phones company, but the more egregious "gr8 Loans R 4u m8" outfits were pretty grating (gr8ing)
Phones 4U was at least an actual phones company, but the more egregious "gr8 Loans R 4u m8" outfits were pretty grating (gr8ing)
Soldato
I blame the board meetings and think tanks led by .com dinosaurs -
"what four letter domain can we still get?"
"ding.com and dong.com is taken, boom is taken, but we can buy bing.com from previous owners for a seven figure sum?"
"sir, if I may, we still own live.com"
"forget about live.com, I want something with a bang - or bing, get me bing.com and buy all the typos as well, I want bimg.com, bibg.com, bihg.com and binf.com as well"
And then you end up with something stupid like Weeknd, tumblr, digg(g) or well.. Yahoo.
"what four letter domain can we still get?"
"ding.com and dong.com is taken, boom is taken, but we can buy bing.com from previous owners for a seven figure sum?"
"sir, if I may, we still own live.com"
"forget about live.com, I want something with a bang - or bing, get me bing.com and buy all the typos as well, I want bimg.com, bibg.com, bihg.com and binf.com as well"
And then you end up with something stupid like Weeknd, tumblr, digg(g) or well.. Yahoo.
The phones 4 u jingle/action was great.