Bad brand names
Bad brand names
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I swear, I am not making this up.
There is actually
Amelia Earhart brand luggage
There is actually
Amelia Earhart brand luggage
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I guess that it is obvious to most of you, but not to me. Enlighten me, please.
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May be MintJulep finds it not much "tactful" for the memory of the Aviatrix to use her name for a commercial brand...?
Bye, 'NGL
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"Thumbs Up" toilet paper
"Great Leap Forward" floor polish
In another true story, an Asian company was shamelessly ripping off a range of bathroom accessories manufactured by Australian company "Caroma", who took them to court to get them to desist. They were successful - but only up to a point. To minimise re-tooling costs, the pirate manufacturer simply eliminated the initial "C" from their branding. They came up with the ideal product name you want to see on your toilet seat and cistern: "Aroma"!
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I still do not understand. A famous pilot's name seems to be OK on luggage. Or is it the fact that she somehow got lost that makes it a "bad brand name"? Probably.
Another classic "bad name" is when Roll-Royce decided to start producing a model that they named "Silver Mist". A nice poetic name, the Brits thought. At least until the German market protested. The word "mist" is "dung" or "shit" in German. That model is now konown as "Silver Cloud" and seems to have sold well - even in Germany.
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Undoubtedly it's the fact that the exact circumstances of her disappearence and her current whereabouts remain a mystery--not attributes one would find desireable in luggage.
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(Not really a product name, but a funny story.) Gerber babyfood in Africa had a tough market. They stuck with the baby face on the jar label, not realizing that in Africa most labels show the substance inside the jar, because many Africans cannot read the label. So, understandably, people didn't want the jars with babies inside.
ChemE, M.E. EIT
"The only constant in life is change." -Bruce Lee
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Not ideal properties for your luggage.
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Another one is names : Take for instance the Hollywood movie actor Johnny Depp. The word "Depp" is a German slang expression for "imbecile".
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Unfortunately, it was also a local derogatory slang expression for a homosexual male, so it didn't quite have the macho image they were looking for.
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This question only works well in the US since elsewhere the maker applied a different brand name:
What car could have a personalised number plate: "IML8 IML8" and what colour is it?
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David
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What was the Golf in much of the world was the Rabbit in the US.
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Polo = Rabbit?
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Bung
Life is non-linear...
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Jeff
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I've got an old (very old - 1984) VW Rabbit, to which I fondly refer as The Dwatted Wabbit. It wuns like a wabbit, and is vewy weliable. Fortunately, I also have a mechanic capable of chasing down and modifying parts as I need them. Wouldn't trade the Dwatted Wabbit, or the mechanic, for the world!
Always got a kick out of the name of the Yugoslavian car Yugo. If you got one, I guess you go, for a while anyway. Now, if you have one, maybe you don't go.
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(Apologies to any Cedrics or Chartered Accounts who might read this.)
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When the car became bigger - which VW called the "A2" platform, it was marketed as the Golf world-wide.
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TTFN
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"Fix It Again, Tony..." ?
Actually, it stands for Fabrica Italiana di Automobili Torino... My father (an Italian-Canadian to the bone) still likes the first one...
Maybe Ford has a better acronym in Italian... "Fatto Oggi, Rotto Domani" (Made today, broken tomorrow)...
-Mark
P.S... I think the name of Pro/Engineer's last 2 releases, Wildfire, is not the best planned name... Wildfires cost people thier livelihoods in arid climates across the world. Regardless, I still think it's great software.
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TTFN
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I once had a salesmen from the Spacely Sprocket Company, (from the cartoon The Jetson). I asked him why he decided to name the company Spacely Sprockets (they sold power transmission products) and he thought customers would get a lick out of it.
As I said I saw him once.
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I'd still have one of their current Elise go-karts for a weekend plaything though!!
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In Germany we say it stands for "Fehler In Allen Teilen" which means "Errors in all parts".
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- Found on Road Dead
- Fails on Race Day
- Fix or Repair Daily
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Bung
Life is non-linear...
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TWA (defunct): Try Walking Across
BOAC (now, ultimately British Airaways): Better On A Camel.
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No, I'm not going to spell it out. What I can tell you, though, it that it is a slang expression of an encouragement or invitation to practice sexual intercourse.
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My late brother worked for a US company in Saudia Arabia named National Medical Enterprises, NME. He always talked about working for the enemy.
rmw
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In any case, ideas are needed to explain "R/3"...
Bye, 'NGL
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In the recent NBA playoffs, one of the sponsors of the radio broadcast was Immodium AD.
That's not bad, of course. The bad part was when Dr. Jack Ramsey, a great analyst and former coach, would finish breaking down the game, he would sign off with "And that's the pre-game poop, brought to you by Immodium AD."
NBC (or whoever) must've been desperate for sponsors 'cuz that's just not a great image to leave right before a game (though an appropriate, if off-color, description of how the Pistons made the Lakers look).
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They found Amelia Earhart on episode 20 of Star Trek: Voyager. She was abducted by aliens of course.
She did license the luggage before she got lost, along with a lot of other products.
http://startrek.epguides.info/?ID=455
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Live Long and Prosper - Qapla', 'NGL
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...and there where the offerings (mostly from Applephiles, and UNIX types) for what "NT", as in Windows-NT stood for:
No Technology
Nice Try
Not Today
Next Time
there are others I've forgotten
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-Mark
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wouldN'T
couldN'T
didN'T
shouldN'T
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/E/Ebenezer.asp
TTFN
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barf1.com
A hypen would have been a nice addition.
Steve
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Larry
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Why would a women's clothing manufacturer call one of their lines...
Sag Harbor.
Hmmm
-Dan
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AUA - Almost Unknown Airline
(Actually Austrian Airways)
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Toddlers swimming nappies.
Least said about that the better....
Tom
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