29 Jun
2009
29 Jun
'09
8:24 a.m.
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:44, Chuck Guzis<cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 29 Jun 2009 at 10:27, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
Up here in Canada, the Reform party briefly renamed itself the
"Conservative Reform Alliance" Party: CRAP
That lasted all of two days, IIRC.
--
Joachim Thiemann :: http://www.tsp.ece.mcgill.ca/~jthiem
I'm haven't yet figured out if it's a
sick joke, or if someone just
didn't realize that it's a bad name to use.
Happens more often than you'd think. ?Long ago, a friend decided to
call his company "Tripas" (a variant spelling of "Tri-pass"). ?After
the corporate name had been registered, the janitorial crew informed
him that they thought it was funny--apparently it's Spanish ?for
entriails ?(tripe).
Some names don't have the cross-language implication, but just sound
strange. ?In particular, ones derived from Latin often sound like the
names of diseases.