[TriLUG] OT: Computer Product Brand Names...

[Brian Henning]

That's probably because if you try hard enough, you can do that with ANY
brand name.
For example, our venerable consoles (with apologies where necessary):
Sony GayStation...
Nintendo LameCube, N-sixty-bore...
Microshaft Ickbox...  (a two-for-one deal!)
Sega Dreamcrap....


And that's off the top of my head, without trying all that hard...

~B

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Subject: [TriLUG] OT: Computer Product Brand Names...


The conversation about TRS-80 and PS/2, I had to point out that the computer
industry seems plagued by brand names that are easily parodied.  I wonder
why these companies don't think about the nicknames their products will
acquire once they reach the end user.  Here are a few I can think of:

DB/2, PS/2, OS/2:  Half a {computer, database, operating system}
PS/2:  Piece of Snot/2
TRS-80:  Trash-80
Thinkpad:  Stinkpad
Intellistation:  Repellistation
Aptiva:  Craptiva
Logitech:  Logiwreck

Can you think of others?

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