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24 August 2010

Misinterpreted Company Names During my commute, I keep seeing a sign for a company called "urbacon".
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I'm sure they meant this as a sort of portmanteau of urban and construction, but I can't help parsing it as a reference to some sort of primordial bacon.

What company names have you seen that are easily misread? Or web site domains, like the infamous expertsexchange before they added a dash?

post by: FishBike at: 17:13 | 5 comments

A while ago someone mentioned that the Droid billboards that said "a bare-knuckled bucket of does" kept looking like "a bare-knuckled bucket of dicks". Now I see the same thing. I feel like I might have seen it here or MeFi, but it could have easily been something on Facebook too...

posted by youngergirl44 24 August | 18:23

damn copywriters got no grammar shame. 'bucket of does'? I'd think it's about deer

posted by Firas 24 August | 18:49

Yeah, surely it should be a bucket of do. Or maybe a bucket of did. A bucket of will? Hmm... a bucket of can?

posted by FishBike 24 August | 18:57

A bucket of iPhone-aversion

posted by Firas 24 August | 19:02

Just tried googling it. Primordial bacon!

posted by Kronos_to_Earth 24 August | 20:27

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