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#197829 - 10/01/2004 17:09 Fun with product names
Mach
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Registered: 15/07/2002
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Loc: Texas, USA
I was in a hardware store in Paris yesterday and ran across this little goody. Probably not on the list to be exported to the US any time soon...




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#197830 - 10/01/2004 17:52 Re: Fun with product names [Re: Mach]
speedy67
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Registered: 18/12/2000
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Loc: South-West-Germany


I think it's german... Ass (german) = ace (engl), but ass (engl) = Arsch (german)
It's one of them you have to pay attention when talking in a foreign language...

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#197831 - 10/01/2004 18:23 Re: Fun with product names [Re: speedy67]
Mach
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Registered: 15/07/2002
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Loc: Texas, USA
Thanks, so it translates to Joints Ace?

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#197832 - 10/01/2004 18:24 Re: Fun with product names [Re: Mach]
g_attrill
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Registered: 14/04/2002
Posts: 1172
Loc: Hants, UK
The food ones are similar. If you get any of the Graham Norton shows you'll see him show examples quite often. He claims they are sent in by viewers but the show has repeatedly ripped off content and ideas from websites (usually just removing logos) so who knows!

There's quite a good list of foos on this site

Place names are also funny here are some UK examples.

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#197833 - 10/01/2004 18:28 Re: Fun with product names [Re: Mach]
speedy67
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Registered: 18/12/2000
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Loc: South-West-Germany
If joints are the spaces between ceramic tiles, yes...
otherwise not at least it doesn't look so.
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#197834 - 10/01/2004 18:39 Re: Fun with product names [Re: speedy67]
furtive
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Registered: 14/08/2001
Posts: 886
Loc: London, UK
Another penile place name here:

link

Sorry, can't do the fancy urls


Edited by Drakino (10/01/2004 20:52)
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#197835 - 10/01/2004 19:41 Re: Fun with product names [Re: furtive]
Phoenix42
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#197836 - 10/01/2004 20:29 Re: Fun with product names [Re: Phoenix42]
fusto
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Registered: 27/12/2001
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Loc: Lummi Island, WA
I used to drive by here on my way to NYC.
Always gave me a chuckle.
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#197837 - 10/01/2004 20:41 Re: Fun with product names [Re: fusto]
fusto
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Loc: Lummi Island, WA
Heres another unfortunate address.
Happens to be in the same vicinity as the address of a famous groundhog what sez he can predict the seasons.
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#197838 - 10/01/2004 21:34 Re: Fun with product names [Re: fusto]
tonyc
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Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
Hey, Pennsylvania has more than just Gobbler's Knob... We've got all sorts of funny town names. Heck, just the Lancaster area (PA Dutch / Amish country) has Bird-in-Hand, Intercourse and Blue Ball, just to name some of the more amusing ones. There's even another "Blue Ball, Pennsylvania" upstate somewhere, which leaves me to think that the founders of our wonderful state had difficulties finishing what they started.
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#197839 - 10/01/2004 21:38 Re: Fun with product names [Re: fusto]
Daria
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Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
You're thinking of "Gobbler's Knob" which is 2 miles from Punxsuntawney.

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#197840 - 10/01/2004 21:57 Re: Fun with product names [Re: tonyc]
JBjorgen
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Registered: 19/01/2002
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Loc: Columbus, OH
Heck, just the Lancaster area (PA Dutch / Amish country) has Bird-in-Hand, Intercourse and Blue Ball, just to name some of the more amusing ones
Looks like you can you get to Paradise by way of Intercourse. Somehow appropriate.
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#197841 - 10/01/2004 22:15 Re: Fun with product names [Re: Daria]
fusto
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Loc: Lummi Island, WA
Right.
uh, so where was I?
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#197842 - 10/01/2004 23:50 Re: Fun with product names [Re: fusto]
Daria
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Registered: 24/01/2002
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Loc: Providence, RI
Several miler north.

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#197843 - 11/01/2004 00:13 Re: Fun with product names [Re: JBjorgen]
tonyc
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Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
Yeah, I always got a good laugh out of that one. Who says the Amish are squares?

I drive through (or very near) Intercourse and Paradise on my way to the shopping outlets in Lancaster. Of course there's a new town name for every square foot out there, it seems.
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#197844 - 11/01/2004 08:36 Re: Fun with product names [Re: Daria]
fusto
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Registered: 27/12/2001
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Loc: Lummi Island, WA
Several miler north.
Oh dear...
And just how many Gobblers Knobs does PA have?!

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#197845 - 11/01/2004 10:05 Re: Fun with product names [Re: JBjorgen]
wfaulk
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Loc: Raleigh, NC US
Yup. And you can get to Blue Ball by bypassing intercourse.
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#197846 - 11/01/2004 11:22 Re: Fun with product names [Re: wfaulk]
Micman2b
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Loc: Central, NC, USA
In NC near Greensboro you can start at Horneytown then go US311 to High Point and then take NC62 to finally wind up at Climax...
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#197847 - 11/01/2004 11:30 Re: Fun with product names [Re: fusto]
mlord
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Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14486
Loc: Canada
Oh, cute. And when I clicked on the link to view Coxsackie, the flash advertisement that came with it was "what's your bag.. (expedia ad)"

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#197848 - 13/01/2004 08:28 Re: Fun with product names [Re: tonyc]
lopan
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Registered: 28/01/2002
Posts: 970
Loc: Manassas VA
I give to you.... Kentucky's Big Bone Lick state park....
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#197849 - 14/01/2004 06:40 Re: Fun with product names [Re: lopan]
frog51
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Loc: Edinburgh, Scotland
And my favourite, Twatt, not far from where I was born
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#197850 - 14/01/2004 09:11 Re: Fun with product names [Re: lopan]
tonyc
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Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
I give to you.... Kentucky's Big Bone Lick state park....
Aw, crap, I fold.
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#197851 - 14/01/2004 09:21 Re: Fun with product names [Re: lopan]
cushman
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Registered: 21/01/2002
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Loc: Erie, CO
I drive by Big Bone Lick SP every time I go to the Red River Gorge.

At the Red, there is a trail that leads along a ridge called "Pinch-em Tight Ridge". Mark Lord and I actually visited a geocache along that ridge after the Cinci meet last year.
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#197852 - 14/01/2004 12:24 Re: Fun with product names [Re: lopan]
BleachLPB
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Loc: Maryland
this was spotted at the 2002 Cinci meet

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#197853 - 14/01/2004 15:13 Re: Fun with product names [Re: Micman2b]
DLF
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BTDT.
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#197854 - 02/12/2004 19:31 Re: Fun with product names [Re: DLF]
Cybjorg
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Sorry to dredge up an old thread, but I had to add Bumpass, VA.

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#197855 - 03/12/2004 08:48 Re: Fun with product names [Re: JBjorgen]
andy
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Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5914
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
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Heck, just the Lancaster area (PA Dutch / Amish country) has Bird-in-Hand, Intercourse and Blue Ball, just to name some of the more amusing ones
Looks like you can you get to Paradise by way of Intercourse. Somehow appropriate.


...and if you are lucky you can have pizza in the middle of Intercourse, without causing offence...

(despite Googling I can't find a pizza place that is actually IN Intercourse, but who claims to have eaten pizza there and rolls this joke out for re-use every six months)
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#197856 - 03/12/2004 11:25 Re: Fun with product names [Re: andy]
Ezekiel
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Posts: 2413
Loc: NH USA
I so agree, there's nothing like eating a little pie in the middle of Intercourse!


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#197857 - 03/12/2004 16:25 Re: Fun with product names [Re: tonyc]
JrFaust
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Posts: 193
Loc: New Richmond, WI
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We've got all sorts of funny town names. Heck, just the Lancaster area (PA Dutch / Amish country) has Bird-in-Hand, Intercourse and Blue Ball, just to name some of the more amusing ones. There's even another "Blue Ball, Pennsylvania" upstate somewhere, which leaves me to think that the founders of our wonderful state had difficulties finishing what they started.


I'd say they were never at any of these States
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#197858 - 04/12/2004 12:32 Re: Fun with product names [Re: Cybjorg]
pedrohoon
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Registered: 06/08/2002
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Loc: The Pilbara, Western Australia
In Perth there is a suburb called Innaloo
Here
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