Badly named products/businesses

Tha Gopher

So Im in Abras in town today, eating my quarter cheese meal, when I notice the brand name of the plastic top on the cup of coke im drinking with a straw. The brandname?......

Benders.

Now, maybe its just me, but theres something about the thought of sucking fluids out of a Bender that puts you right off your food

Another one in Navan Co. Meath, there is a curryhouse called Gaylords Tandoori.

"Yeah had a few too many pints last night then went on a heavy one in Gaylords. My hole is in bits this morning":eek:

Slightly less vulgar, I once passed through a village in Cavan where the local shop was called......The Shop. Imaginitive eh

So, got any others? Can any Donegal heads confirm the fabled existence of the Muff Diving Club? Apparently Ford had to stop selling its Pinto (old cheap US model) in Brazil under that name, as in Portuguese Pinto is slang for a guy with a small *whistles* or something along those lines, so the cars werent exactly selling well.

Rhyme

In Cork theres two clothes stores, one called 'Gay Gal' and another called 'Mr.Mister'

Makes me chuckle.

Peyton Manning

Taco Bell had to change the name of one of its products because its literal translation in Spanish (or Portugese) was 'small penis'. No lie.

Ive also seen a Kok Technologies in Holland, as well as staying in a Happy Dong inn. :rolleyes:

InFront

Knobs and Knockers, Nassau Street (sell metallic harwares)

Surprisingly upmarket too.

Publin

This is more a dreadful lack of awareness of local "sensitivities", culture and history but... When mobile phone company Orange set up in Northern Ireland, they plastered the slogan "The future's bright, the future's Orange" on all their adverts. Needless to say it didn't go down to well around the Falls Road...

InFront

Brilliant:D

Rabies

Noticed a couple of weird business names around

Hose Doctor
Hole Masters

can't think of the others right now.

Ruu_Old

I do remember that tandoori place in Navan alright.:) Theres a waste management company here called "Pump and Dump", I kid you not.:eek: Also Benders Mattress Factory.

Victor

BEST EVAR! "Smeg" fridges and kitchen equipment.

Tha Gopher wrote:

So Im in Abras in town today, eating my quarter cheese meal, when I notice the brand name of the plastic top on the cup of coke im drinking with a straw. The brandname?...... Benders.

Isn't tha the model, not the make?

Archimedes wrote:

Ive also seen a Kok Technologies in Holland, as well as staying in a Happy Dong inn. :rolleyes:

Pronounced "Coke".

Gary ITR

There's a chinese take-away in Kilkenny called Ming Inn

DarkJager

Yeah hole masters are here in limerick as well... also a place down here called cruds takeaway... I could never bring myself to go there for fear of what the sausage has been replaced with in the "battered sausages"

DonkeyStyle \o/

Not really a business name, but I always found their choice of domain name amusing.
www.asm.org

Rabies

Ok, that has gone my head.
ASM? Huh?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM

DonkeyStyle \o/

Rabies wrote:

Ok, that has gone my head.
ASM? Huh?

asm.org => org.asm => orgasm
Yeah, it's a bit stupid and obscure, but that's me.

Peyton Manning

asm.org................org.asm.......


also

Hilarious

Rabies

/Calls men in white coats.

DonkeyStyle \o/, there will a knock on your door soon. Go with the nice men for a drive. They have a really pretty jacket you can wear

Revalco

Onkle51 wrote:

There's a chinese take-away in Kilkenny called Ming Inn

lol

Ruu_Old

Archimedes wrote:

asm.org................org.asm.......


also

Hilarious

Brilliant! *dials number for prank call*

InFront

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

asm.org => org.asm => orgasm
Yeah, it's a bit stupid and obscure, but that's me.

They deffo did that on purpose - thats textbook microbiological wit!

DonkeyStyle \o/

InFront wrote:

They deffo did that on purpose - thats textbook microbiological wit!

Yes, I'm sure they're all sitting around pulling each others fingers as we speak.

roo_photo

My favourite is a company that sells custom pens. Its innocently called 'Pen Island'....but put those names together and what do you get!? :eek:

http://www.penisland.net/

Their motto? 'Your PEN IS our business..." Say no more...:p

DonkeyStyle \o/

roo_photo wrote:

Its innocently called 'Pen Island'

Yeah that is an absolutely brilliant one.
We won't ask how you found it.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

There's also that Nagina place that was on Georges street. They either changed the name or changed owners, i don't know, but it was almost like they were trying to make the N look like a V.

I saw Bimbo bread i saw in Portugal a few weeks ago, not the best one really.

Oh yeah, and the one about the Pinto reminds me of a thing i saw on QI, In France the Toyota(at least i think it was toyota) MR2 didn't go down so well because, ok maybe this isnt so easy to explain in typing but, in french the R would be pronounced much like err or air and the 2 being deux so it became M-er-deux, or Merde which means shít in French of course. Ok sorry about the crap explanation but you get the idea

Edit- Just hapened to be watching that QI there and the Pinto one was in it too

Apparently the Chevrolet Nova had to be renamed in Latin America since it translates to "it doesn't go". However it was an urban legend. Yes, "no va" means "it doesn't go", but it was still marketed as the Nova and sold very well.

I even remember reading this in a Leaving Cert Business school book. And it wasn't even true!

Lust4Life

Used to work for a company that sold products to Hardware Stores.
One of the largest chain stores was called "Horney's Hardware". Can just picture the men in the chain saw aisle doing the Tim Taylor grunt!!!!!!

L4L

rogue-entity

There was a chinese restaurent in Waterford called Golden Rod. Its still listed as that in the phonebook, but I think they changed their name.

Another one, which always makes me laugh is a company called AirCon, making air conditioners, but i always think of Eircom when I see it.

Collie D

Victor wrote:

Pronounced "Coke".

Not on this website it's not

Caco

Here's one Ben and Jerry's tried to release but there was uproar over it before it was released- i'd love to try it though!
http://www.junkfoodblog.com/uploaded_images/ben-jerrys-black-and-tan-ice-cream-735538.jpg

Here's a packet of soup I found in some foreign food shop on Moore Street, just had to buy it!
http://www.astro.umd.edu/~kayhan/weblog/uploaded_images/Cock%20Soup002-740117.jpg

My mate found this one in Boots-
http://www.blushingbuyer.co.uk/acatalog/retardex-toothpaste-lg.jpg

I know some more but cant think of them at the mo!

Ragazza

I have a friend thats a landscaper, his email is illcutyourhedgeforyoumissus@...

I fell about laughing when he gave me a business card with that on it!

Collie D

Yeah, heard about the ice-cream, apparently they sell it abbroad, they only dropped it from Irish market, love the soup though, haha, must buy that for gf. See Bitch, it doesn't taste that bad

Victor

rogue-entity wrote:

Another one, which always makes me laugh is a company called AirCon,

In the states they have conair.

Strokesfan

We bought a can of "pimp juice" in Ayia Napa - in a red bull shaped can, weird

silent gav

mitsubishi had to chance the name of the pajero in spain cause it means w@nker in spanish. i think its pretty apt though

Tha Gopher

The Ming Inn reminds me, back in the day in my cousins neaighbourhood there was a Pakistani restaurent called The Lahore Inn

La-Whore........trust me, when your 14 its fcukin hysterical believe it or not.

Black Swan

Saw a discount store in a So Cal strip mall called "Stuff for One Dollar.":rolleyes:

Ruu_Old

Theres a petrol station near here called "Kum & Go" and one of those cash advance places and the slogan written says "in and out in minutes". Filth I tells ya!

Gone West

Tha Gopher wrote:

Slightly less vulgar, I once passed through a village in Cavan where the local shop was called......The Shop. Imaginitive eh

So, got any others? Can any Donegal heads confirm the fabled existence of the Muff Diving Club?

Theres a chipper in Lahinch or Bundoran(forget which, one of the surf towns) called "the chipper".
Also, I can de-comfirm that muff thing. Urban legend.
There is however, a "top Muff" filling station.
They even have keyrings.

Coconut

Courtesy of http://independentsources.com/2006/07/12/worst-company-urls/

1. A site called ‘Who Represents‘ where you can find the name of the agent that represents a celebrity. Their domain name… wait for it… is
www.whorepresents.com

2. Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views at
www.expertsexchange.com

3. Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island at
www.penisland.net

4. Need a therapist? Try Therapist Finder at
www.therapistfinder.com

5. Then of course, there’s the Italian Power Generator company…
www.powergenitalia.com

6. And now, we have the Mole Station Native Nursery, based in New South Wales:
www.molestationnursery.com

7. If you’re looking for computer software, there’s always
www.ipanywhere.com

8. Welcome to the First Cumming Methodist Church. Their website is
www.cummingfirst.com

9. Then, of course, there’s these brainless art designers, and their whacky website:
www.speedofart.com

10. Want to holiday in Lake Tahoe? Try their brochure website at
www.gotahoe.com

atheist

FuzzyLogic wrote:

Also, I can de-comfirm that muff thing. Urban legend.

Sorry it's true. Only lasted a week though. Some Brits and a German set up the club just to have the name. Saw pics of them in their wet suits in and out of the water and by the petrol station and road sign on a mates PC. They also got tee shirts done.

Wishbone Ash

Swilly meats - now i know it's named after the local river/lough but when I see it I can only think of pig swill.

There is a pub in Lusk, Co Dublin called the "Top Shop". I think it got it's name because both pubs in the village are owned by the same family and it is used to differentiate it from the other one which is known (but not named) as the "bottom shop".

Faerie

There's an Indian Restaurant in Douglas called Madras....it sort of puts me off the place!

bluto63

I once ate at Wangs chinese resteraunt.

Over in Spain, I had a cheetos type crisp called Cockers.

Wishbone Ash

Faerie wrote:

There's an Indian Restaurant in Douglas called Madras....it sort of puts me off the place!

I see where you are coming from but it should be pronounced with the emphasis on 'dras' (maDRASS).

Gone West

atheist wrote:

Sorry it's true. Only lasted a week though. Some Brits and a German set up the club just to have the name. Saw pics of them in their wet suits in and out of the water and by the petrol station and road sign on a mates PC. They also got tee shirts done.

The first rule of muff diving club....
Is that you DONT TALK ABOUT MUFF DIVING CLUB.
The second rule...

Thorbar

Around 10 years ago in Ennis there was a Chinese called the Greasy Thumb, it had a big glowing thumbs up picture as well. Now I wonder why they went out of business.

Wishbone Ash

www.therapistfinder.com

ROFLMAO - brilliant

Enright

heres a few badly named products

Irish Mist, they coudnt sell it it Germany because "mist" in german has a different meaning.

http://www.student-online.net/dictionary.shtml

put in the word mist - see what i mean

Another product disater was Kentucky Fried CHicken, when they tried to launch in China, they litterely translated the line " finger licking good" to chinese, but the it translated to "eat your fingers off"


When they tried to sell Pepsi in China, they translated "where theres life theres pepsi" and the CHinese heard it as "Pepsi- brings your ansestors back from the dead!!!"

zuutroy

Enright wrote:

When they tried to sell Pepsi in China, they translated "where theres life theres pepsi" and the CHinese heard it as "Pepsi- brings your ansestors back from the dead!!!"

Brilliant!
Best one I saw was a restaurant called 'Peter's Kok' in Sweden.

Mossy Monk

Enright wrote:

"Pepsi- brings your ansestors back from the dead!!!"

brilliant

Dooom

Onkle51 wrote:

There's a chinese take-away in Kilkenny called Ming Inn

Eh..it's the Ming Court actually...

Zapp Brannigan

Faerie wrote:

There's an Indian Restaurant in Douglas called Madras....it sort of puts me off the place!

Don't eat Indian much do ya?

Thats the name of a meal. Mmm Chicken Madras, so nice...so spicey!