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12 Most Unfortunate Product Names 1. Golden Gaytime (ice-cream)
Golden Gaytime is an iconic ice-cream in Australia, its name survived intact despite the homosexual connotations in modern decades. The company just decided to play up the camp name with the boxes, holding the words "4 delicious chances to have a gay time." 2. Vergina (beer) 
3. Pee Cola (soft drink) 
4. Ayds (diet candy) 
Ayds (pronounced "AIDS") was a diet candy from the 1980s. Years later, the name would have its current meaning. 5. Shitto (sauce) 
Shitto is an allegedly delicious Ghanaian sauce with a name that makes Americans laugh, while everyone in Ghana seems to love it. 6. Megapussi (potato chips) 
--Our readers Oona, Lance and Peppar from Finland wrote us to explain "Megapussi" is a Finnish word for a "mega bag" and not actually the product's name. 7. Wack off! (insect repellent) 
Australian repellent "used by the armed forces." They surely need it. 8. SARS (drink) 
This drink from New Zealand shares its name with SARS: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. 9. Jussipussi (bread) 
10. Cock flavoured mix (soup) 
11. 666 (cold medicine) 
12. Vergatario (Chavez' penis mobile phone) 
It is perhaps the world's cheapest mobile phone, and the latest offering from Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez: behold the "Vergatorio," a name that's derived from a slang word for penis. While in Venezuela the word does have another meaning (reliable), the rest of Latin America is still laughing. http://oddee.com/item_96682.aspx [Edited 12/1/09 19:18pm] Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach | |
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Double post [Edited 12/1/09 19:19pm] Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach | |
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my kids adore golden gaytimes! | |
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ZombieKitten said: my kids adore golden gaytimes!
They look good.  Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach | |
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ZombieKitten said: my kids adore golden gaytimes!
So do I!!!! 
Oh, you mean the icecream  "...and If all of this Love Talk ends with Prince getting married to someone other than me, all I would like to do is give Prince a life size Purple Fabric Cloud Guitar that I made from a vintage bedspread that I used as a Christmas Tree Skirt." Tame, Feb | |
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wow  what were they thinking when they named these products?  | |
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I remember Ayds. Geez, talk about screwed up timing.  Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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When I was a little kid my Mother use to give me 666 cold medicine. It was the
color of urine. It taste discussing,but it did the job. | |
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PurpleDiamond2009 said: wow
what were they thinking when they named these products? It's obvious that some of these products are lost in translation. They may be perfectly fine and reasonable where they come from, but they are misfortunately named elsewhere. Back in the 1970's Chevrolet rolled out its then ubiquitous Chevy Nova economy car across North America. While the car sold well in the USA and Canada, it flopped big time in Mexico, despite a massive advertising and PR push. It wasn't until a marketing executive from the Latin American division of GM informed the then-CEO that they had a problem on their hands with the name that GM realized that Nova as pronounced in Spanish means "No go", so essentially the Mexican people though they were selling a car that wouldn't work.  
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728huey said: PurpleDiamond2009 said:
wow
what were they thinking when they named these products? It's obvious that some of these products are lost in translation. They may be perfectly fine and reasonable where they come from, but they are misfortunately named elsewhere. Back in the 1970's Chevrolet rolled out its then ubiquitous Chevy Nova economy car across North America. While the car sold well in the USA and Canada, it flopped big time in Mexico, despite a massive advertising and PR push. It wasn't until a marketing executive from the Latin American division of GM informed the then-CEO that they had a problem on their hands with the name that GM realized that Nova as pronounced in Spanish means "No go", so essentially the Mexican people though they were selling a car that wouldn't work.
[Edited 12/1/09 20:14pm] Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach | |
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Lammastide said: I remember Ayds. Geez, talk about screwed up timing.
True.  Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach | |
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728huey said: PurpleDiamond2009 said:
wow
what were they thinking when they named these products? It's obvious that some of these products are lost in translation. They may be perfectly fine and reasonable where they come from, but they are misfortunately named elsewhere. Back in the 1970's Chevrolet rolled out its then ubiquitous Chevy Nova economy car across North America. While the car sold well in the USA and Canada, it flopped big time in Mexico, despite a massive advertising and PR push. It wasn't until a marketing executive from the Latin American division of GM informed the then-CEO that they had a problem on their hands with the name that GM realized that Nova as pronounced in Spanish means "No go", so essentially the Mexican people though they were selling a car that wouldn't work.
we have this car on our roads 
and that is it's real name | |
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ZombieKitten said: 728huey said: PurpleDiamond2009 said:
It's obvious that some of these products are lost in translation. They may be perfectly fine and reasonable where they come from, but they are misfortunately named elsewhere. Back in the 1970's Chevrolet rolled out its then ubiquitous Chevy Nova economy car across North America. While the car sold well in the USA and Canada, it flopped big time in Mexico, despite a massive advertising and PR push. It wasn't until a marketing executive from the Latin American division of GM informed the then-CEO that they had a problem on their hands with the name that GM realized that Nova as pronounced in Spanish means "No go", so essentially the Mexican people though they were selling a car that wouldn't work.
we have this car on our roads
and that is it's real name Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach | |
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- My mom used to take AYDS when I was a kid. They looked like little caramel squares. She kept them "hidden" on the top shelf of her closet. 
- We used to be given 666 when we were kids, too.  "Love Hurts. Your lies, they cut me. Now your words don't mean a thing. I don't give a damn if you ever loved me..." -Cher, "Woman's World" | |
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