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The new Ducati road e-bike, the Futa. I was today years old when I learned it has another meaning.
https://twitter.com/ducatimotor/status/1500056068604534787?s=21
No they don’t. Particularly American marketing guys. We had a product which we acquired when we bought another software company. It was bad enough that it was called ActiveEntry. Our genius marketing guys decided to rename it Quest Identity Manager.
After the product manager mentioned QuIM for the third or fourth time during the company-wide launch call, I took pity on him and sent him the UD link to what a quim actually was. He stopped using that acronym pretty quickly after that and all the launch sales marketing kits had to be republished with guidance on how to abbreviate the product.
Wang Cares.
I used to work for a business that used to subcontract services with this company.
"a leading worldwide provider of pressure pumping... services for the petroleum industry" no less.
The word you are actually looking for is futanari, futa is just an abbreviation.
And what exactly IS the problem with cartoon hermaphroditic porn with willys the size of torsos? Especially of the furry genre. 🤔
My brother's school football team was sponsored by BJ Services for a bit. What an absolute gift.
A bit closer to home, I remember one of the guys from Kona telling me his family was aked to either leave, or cover up their Kona t-shirts whilst in a restaurant in (I think) Portugal. And now Hiyundai have put the name on an SUV, probably quite apt :).
First time I saw the new golf tournament listed on Sky Sports I had to do a double take. The DP World Championship sounds like something entirely different from golf. 16 holes less than a round of golf.
Reminds me of when I worked in local authority. I was in a meeting with several others when one woman was updating us on the work she'd be doing on a bus gateway, in effect, a very short bus lane designed to stop cars using a particular section of road at peak times. Only bus gateway is what it got named after the meeting.
Me and two others, were struggling to stifle giggles throughout and each times we caught someone's eye, we'd go again.
Must be why they stopped calling it a bus plug.
There's a security outfit near us named BJ Bonds. Makes me smile as I wonder if that's like having an IOU note.
There’s a security outfit near us named BJ Bonds. Makes me smile as I wonder if that’s like having an IOU note.
Sounds like something you get if you're working away on your birthday. Maybe 😳
Not urban dictionary but in the world of hydralic modelling of floods...
Isis flood modeller had to change its name but they didn't change the ied file type*...
I've literally google with; ISIS, ied, how to. I'm definitily on a watch list
*i'm sure there was additional thing aswell but i can't remember it.
Reminds me of when I worked in local authority. I was in a meeting with several others when one woman was updating us on the work she’d be doing on a bus gateway, in effect, a very short bus lane designed to stop cars using a particular section of road at peak times. Only bus gateway is what it got named after the meeting.
I know someone who called the bellmouth of a development entrance a bellend for a whole meeting.
And occasionally i hear some one refer to GIS software such as... well you probbaly don't need help with that
A bit closer to home, I remember one of the guys from Kona telling me his family was aked to either leave, or cover up their Kona t-shirts whilst in a restaurant in (I think) Portugal. And now Hiyundai have put the name on an SUV, probably quite apt :).
Is that not more to do with logo than name?
The logo being a stylised anus.
Cona
Portugese is an interesting language
foden
I used to go to school in a Foden and there are several Foden Lanes hereabouts. I shall watch out for doggers.
Whereas some bike mfrs seem to use it as a general guide 🥸
- Prince Albert
- Handjob
- Bahookie (admittedly mild, although the full ‘Shand Bahookie’ sounds more ‘interesting’)
- Sanchez
- Stiffee
- STD
etc…
All passé now, of course.
Wait…
Dashed if I don’t have a spiffing idea for a bicycle of the radical/cool variety! Jeeves? Make haste to the library and fetch for me the Rogers Profanisaurus, would you?
@p7eaven I think you mean a spaffing idea.
Back the 80s/ops there was an American designed anchor for windsurfers called the Wanchor
And occasionally i hear some one refer to GIS software such as… well you probably don’t need help with that
Yep, we have a couple of shared GIS workstations. As the plotter is some distance away, we always check someone isn't in the middle of using it before changing the map. Out goes the cry "is this jizzbox free?"
JSL Sercurity at the Portobello roundabout or maybe it's just me that gets that to rhyme with drizzle.
I always used to smile when using the big LCR meter at my last job. It was made by the Wayne Kerr company; turns out they do quite a good line in web addresses too.
www.waynekerrtest.com
It should be noted that they don’t even have the excuse of being American.
I always used to smile when using the big LCR meter at my last job. It was made by the Wayne Kerr company; turns out they do quite a good line in web addresses too.
It should be noted that they don’t even have the excuse of being American.
I thought they were American but that could be because I used to deal with them in the 70s and the memory of the receptionist with a heavy American accent has endured better than any memory of where they are based.
T.Watts skip hire is more than happy to stencil the company name on all their skips.
Years ago on an IT mag we used to amuse ourselves during quiet moments on the news desk by calling the Cologne office of Wang Corporation on speakerphone. 'Guten Morgen! Wang Cologne!' in a cheery Bavarian accent really does lift the mood.
Michael Skok was a firm interview favourite, as was Mike Pfister of Intel. We never got to get Ginger Clopper on the phone. 🙁
Avaya, a large telecoms vendor, translates to 'A round of booing' in Portugese.
You really can't win.
There were loads of products called ISIS, including one we made.
And occasionally i hear some one refer to GIS software such as… well you probbaly don’t need help with that
Working with a customer where they were using this particular software. We had a lot of fun with this and the engineer from the company got to enjoy his title of "GIS man". Even his female associate found all highly amusing...
I still think someone needs to make a real-life Funcooker.
Ginger Clopper
😂
Still on LinkedIn, she is.
I like when things change underneath a brand- Isis is the perfect example, the uni I worked for had a collaboration with a group called ISIS at just exactly the wrong time and we kept on releasing press statements that said things like "ISIS secures space on campus" and "ISIS and Heriot Watt March Forwards Together!"
I understand that German Buyers turned up their noses at Rolls Royce' Silver Mist. And sales of the Chevy Nova didn't go well in Spanish speaking regions.
In Pembrokeshire, there used to be a womens football team called the 'Goodwick Growlers'....
New Dacia looks like a great shape, and a pretty enough car.
I like it.
Bit close to "Dacia Dogger" though?
I understand that German Buyers turned up their noses at Rolls Royce’ Silver Mist. And sales of the Chevy Nova didn’t go well in Spanish speaking regions.
The Silver Mist was renamed to the Silver Shadow for this reason before going on sale, and whilst the Chevy Nova was called that in Latin America it sold well, because Spanish speakers didn't equate Nova with 'no va' because it sounds different.
Subtlety is lost...