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

[David McDowell]

Dell - Dull
Windows - Sindows
SuSE - SuSucks, SuSlow
Mandriva - Mandrivle (or dribble, you know what I mean, blah blah ramble)
Netscape - Nutscrape
Microsoft - Microsnot, Microsuck
Explorer - Exploder




On 12/8/05, Ken Mink <ken.mink at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is similiar, but a little different. I used to be a sysadmin at
> Gateway. We had a saying, "There's the right way and then there's the
> Gateway."
>
> Ken
>
> On 12/8/05, Tanner Lovelace <clubjuggler at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 12/7/05, Israel J Pattison <pattison at usa.com> wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > IBM Harddrives?
> >
> > Deskstar: Deathstar (because it killed your data?)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Tanner
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